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. " I'm fighting the temptation to want to create a digital bloggers quilt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

What is Web 2.0 by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. User generated content - Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

A link to a Web 2.0 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'). Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Back in the early days of Web 2.0, The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0 To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

to some nonprofit staff people who are struggling with information overload and managing personal collections of web-based resources they need to do their work. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. I've introduced del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. Some discussion around how a community developed taxonomy could be helpful to facilitate shared publishing between web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. re the poster child for Web 2.0 and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Some interesting chit chat before the session went live over a webcast:f Weinberger : ???What What irks you???? Schachter: ???I???m poster child and I don???t

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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. Why are folksonomies useful? But there’s a problem (for me) with this kind of tagging: it only affects the Web. This is brilliant on so many levels.

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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. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. And if you frequently do research on the web and need to save pointers to a great many sites, you will immediately see its value. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

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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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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Set your high-concept goals and find a Web 2.0 Many museums are using Web 2.0

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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 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

MAY 1, 2005

I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. 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.

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