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NpTech Tag Discussion: Analysis of Tags Used With NpTech - Thank you Chris!

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" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny tyranny of the majority,???

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. functionality.

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

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Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It s a folksonomy.

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

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Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. It is important to use video, photos, and audio. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion. User generated content - Web 2.0

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

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Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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At the basic level, the use of tags makes it very simple and not very timeconsuming to reorganize dymanically and not have to remember where the hell you filed that great URL that had the wonderful photos of the Angkor Wat -- did you bookmark under Siem Reap, Ankgor Wat, or Khmer Culture.