Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. Why are folksonomies useful? Projects Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Are you interested in reading posts about case studies at other institutions or learning about tools you can try out yourself? spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use. The answer for all of us is yes, no, and primarily "it depends."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? There is a write-up of the project here. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. s a folksonomy.

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