Tagging for Community of Practice

Doing More with Less

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Workshop ObjectivesUpon 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.

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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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