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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

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A link to a Web 2.0 report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). Some others disagree.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. that we'll have to go straight from Web 2.0 to Web 4.0.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. t feel there was necessarily tension between individual and the group. ???You re the poster child for Web 2.0

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

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The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

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Back in the early days of Web 2.0, nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Digg it here ).

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Act 1: The Problem. sharpie.??? Social Bookmarking.