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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 He notes that if you are new to Web 2.0, What caught my eye was the title of the report, What Is Web 2.0? folksonomy??? and looking into some of the implications. this is an excellent introduction. keyword to use.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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New Feature! and the Taxonomy of the Museum 2.0 Collection

Museum 2.0

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 The challenge with grouping posts by topic (and I constantly struggle with naming and assigning topics) is that our interests are often both highly specific and hard to define. spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is Web 2.0 by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. User generated content - Web 2.0

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Shimon showed frassle.net.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? re the poster child for Web 2.0 and folksonomy.???

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