Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? Want to join in the fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. 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. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny

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