Tagging For Community of Practice

Tagging for Community of Practice Doing More with Less http://www.rawsthorne.org

Workshop Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop the participants will ….
be able to explain tagging and how it creates a taxonomy.
be able to identify the similarities among a taxonomy and a folksonomy .
Be able to describe the features of a tag cloud .
be able to list the key community building features of tagging.
be able to explain how RSS can access tags .
be able to identify a number of different tagging services .

What is tagging?
Referencing content using words you (or your community ) are familiar and come to mind most often.
Tags are metadata about the content.
Tags can and should be shared.
Tagging creates folksonomies
Words can be used for filtering and retrieval

Traditional bookmarking

Why tag?

Tagging content

Formative Activity 1
Read the accompanying article of text.
Identify three keywords (or tags) that capture the meaning of the text.
Think of these keywords as reference to searching for the article at some point in the future.
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folksonomies
Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.
Folksonomy (from folk + taxonomy ) is a user-generated taxonomy.

Reviewing your tags?

Your tags as a cloud

A tag cloud (delicious via wordle)

A tag cloud (global population) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/World_Population.png

Reviewing others tags?

Formative Activity 2
Using delicious drill through some tags to other users of the tag.
Select another user of a tag and find their tag cloud
For some fun use wordle to view this users tag cloud.
What does this tell you about the user?

Your Network
From both a person and tag perspective
Allows you to connect friends, family, coworkers, and new people.
Allows you to subscribe to a tag

Network and Subscriptions

Subscribing to a tag using RSS
This can apply to;
Yourself
Others
Networks

Other tagging sites http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30

References
http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/02/what-are-your-reasons-for-tagging.html
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/003735.html
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Tagging.pdf
http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/the-hive-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging/
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/12/28/12-filtering-tips-for-better-information-in-half-the-time-rss-delicious-and-stumbleupon/
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30
http://www.nosolousabilidad.com/hassan/improving_tagclouds.pdf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1659321885/

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Tagging For Community of Practice

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