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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. " Main reason is if the tag are going to be useful to YOU - the tag should express your way of thinking not the majority. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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