Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? How are they different from taxonomies? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. He acknowledges the problems with tagging, as we've heard elsewhere. Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. One of the problems with tagging is the ambiguity of language that we use for tags. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. They wanted to dispel myths about what mental problems really mean. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Act 1: The Problem. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

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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