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.

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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 Some of the suggestions I've been considering: --reader-generated tags (right now I set the topic tags for each post, not sure how to do this with Blogger but it could be possible) pumping up the "What is Museum 2.0?"

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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. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world. Why are folksonomies useful? Projects Core Museum 2.0 What’s missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and describing them with tags. There are many social bookmarking services available on the web. s a folksonomy. sharpie.???

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