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Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
The document discusses the use of tagging for collaboration and knowledge sharing among nonprofits, highlighting its benefits such as enhanced description, easy access, and social aspects. It contrasts tagging with traditional bookmarking and introduces concepts like folksonomy and taxonomy. The author emphasizes the importance of community engagement in tagging efforts and encourages nonprofits to adopt tagging systems for increased visibility of resources.
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- 1. Tagging for Collaborationand Knowledge Sharing By Beth Kanter
- 2. Trainer, coach, andconsultant to nonprofits and effective technology use. Beth Kanter: Offline
- 3. Beth Kanter: OnlineProfiles & Presence Content in many places RSS Powered Fundraising Sharing photos, bookmarks, videos, and more Conversations connections
- 4. Photo by RobertScales Let’s do a quick poll!
- 5. 3 words that describe your work interests Type into chat Identify someone you want to chat with based on their word(s) Private chat for 3 minutes Disclaimer: This might not work!
- 6. I wrote mythesis on that! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginable/ This is exactly what I need to learn about!
- 7. What is tagginganyway?
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- 14. Limited Flexibility LimitedDescriptive Information
- 15. Bookmarks are ourjunk drawers. Only hyper organized people put them into folders, clean out dead links, or click around the site to figure out why they were bookmarked in the first place. - Laura Gordon-Murname http://www.flickr.com/photos/ledgard/
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- 20. Can I justuse a search engine?
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- 22. Tagging to theRescue! Enhanced description! 24/7 access! Serendipity Flexible Easy Share
- 23. What’s in itfor you?
- 24. Rashmi Sinha’s theoryof tagging – or why it is catching on “ Tagging is simple”
- 25. “ The beautyof tagging is that it taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost.”
- 26. What are someways that Nonprofits can pick the low Take advantage of the social aspects of tagging What did you tag?
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- 35. The F WordFolksonomy is the “vocabulary” or collection of tags that results from personal free tagging of web resources for one’s own use and the aggregate collection of tags that results from a group tagging project.
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- 37. The T WordTaxonomy is the practice and science of classification. A taxonomy might also be a simple organization of objects into groups, or even an alphabetical list.
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- 40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/michal/ “ Iftaxonomies are trees …” David Weinberger
- 41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesullys/61095237 Tags area pile of leaves
- 42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesullys/61095237 Tagging systemsare possible only if people are motivated to do more of the work themselves, for individual and/or social reasons. They are necessarily sloppy systems, so if it's crucial to find each and every object that has to do with, say, apples, tagging won't work. But for an inexpensive, easy way of using the wisdom of the crowd to make resources visible and sortable, there's nothing like tags. David Weinberger
- 43. Unscientific Content Analysisbased on Examples Found on Net2
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- 45. Publish links toyour blog!
- 46. Organizational, Departmental, Team,or Community of Practice Discuss Tagging Policy Set up Account (s) Share Bookmarks
- 47. Began an attemptto create an emergent nonprofit technology taxonomy which lead to an experiment with del.icio.us
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- 52. Some initial analysisof tags and taggers
- 53. Collaborative filtering Socialsearch Retrieval NpTech Mashups
- 54. Key Learnings Noteveryone had to do the tagging for everyone to benefit Fire hydrants are bad, help people simplify People write the best summaries (not programs) Make your own unique tag! Be open – do not limit the crowd Get the word out; promote your tag Encourage conversation, real conversation http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/
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- 57. Register for adel.icio.us account Identify ten web resources that you find most valuable to your work Bookmark them into del.icio.us using the unique tag “ extag ” Annotate Pivot browse to discover new users or resources, bookmark items you find Write your reflections before May 23rd
- 58. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/ Did youfind tagging exercise useful? Why or why not? What surprised you? How will you integrate the use of tagging into your practice? Reflections
- 59. Thank you! BethKanter, Beth’s Blog http://beth.typepad.com
Editor's Notes
- #2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliekintaiwan/ Tagging and Social Bookmarking: Integrating into Your Practice As An Extension Professional http://about.extension.org/2007/04/30/tagging-for-collaboration-and-knowledge-sharing/