Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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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. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy?

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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 Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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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

MAY 26, 2005

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Tagging from the point of view of taggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. 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 means involving the user - it's beyond the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. 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 Schachter jumped in with, ???I t use the word ???folksonomy. The goal isn??? The goal isn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ???

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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. Read David Weinberger's reply (Berkman Fellow and author of an article called " Why Tagging Matters ") to the article here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1.

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