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Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." Taxonomy won! No surprise. " my hits have quadrupled.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. 2 admin 08.05.09
Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." A brilliant reflection, if only presenting one point of view, but still worth reading!
The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking.
and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Right now, delicious blocks out google page reference and spammers want to get page rank. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0 Schachter jumped in with, ???I
Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago.
Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology?
Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Keywords are important, particularly in titles - if you want to show up in google. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion.
Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum? Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites. Do you want visitors to contribute to the classification and presentation of your artifacts? activities support that mission.
The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn ! The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies.
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