am finally getting the rest of the series up.   Part 1 , part 2 , part 3, , part 4, part 5 , part 6 , and part 7 are all here on the blog. We have talked throughout this series on communities of practice about “content.” 8221; Well, what the heck is content, why is it important and how do we make the most of it - especially when there is a LOT of it. This is the eighth  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick late last year. I

These kinds of calls for commentary have been called “circus” or “carnival” calls for content on a theme before. Tags: Community OCTribe Online Community Social Networking Special Events tagging ocu2009 tribe unconferenc Several weeks ago I met with Bill Johnston , Randy Farmer and Kaliya Hamlin in preparation forlast week’s  Online Community Unconference , dubbed #ocu2009 this time around. I have loved the series of gatherings convened by Forum One, and for me they have always been a loose circle of respected social tools designers, subversive

The new breed of P2P search projects that have are contending for the ‘ next big thing in search’ holy-grail, like Faroo (www.faroo.com) and Minerva (www.minerva-project.org) have taken the semantic overlay networks (SON) approach to organize peer-nodes and data objects into clusters in accordance with the inherent semantics of the content in these networks. This application of ‘semantics’ is in contrast to the way the term ‘semantics’ is being used in the fields of ‘Emergent-Semantics’ and ‘Semiotic-Dynamics’ which are more concerned with neologisms (newly coined words or expressions)

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta See how were connected Connections February 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Bill Ives points to a Good Article on Tagging – HP Labs : Pito Salas of BlogBridge sent me a link to a great article on the concepts behind and within tagging, The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems by Scott Golder and Bernardo A. They describe collaborative tagging as "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".This Huberman, Information Dynamics Laboratory, HP Labs. This is what is commonly referred to as tagging at the moment and what was popularized by sites such as del.icio.us

What makes this site particularly interesting, though, is its use of Twitter, Facebook and Flickr as a way of generating content for the site and promoting participation. They can contribute images by tagging their Flickr contributions with the same tag. And they can suggest ideas by video by tagging on YouTube in the same manner. Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr LEGO is a brand that many people are very passionate about, a brand people love and we’ve written before about how they use segmentation to engage their consumer base from children to enthusiasts

Our unique vibEngine software solution includes: User generated content Social ranking of content Tagging Tag clouds Photo Album Blogs External Blog mirrors Blog RSS/Scraping content RSS feeds Watchlists Personal messaging Email notifications Question and Answer functionality Member Rank Social networking features Flexible group creation Automatic grouping Power of the community Self sustaining Search engine friendly Member recognition Administration Coded in open source to save licensing costs Click here for a full description

When the Wikipedia entry for folksonomy moved to make the statement that folksonomy is synonymous with collaborative tagging, it deeply bothered me as the term folksonomy was coined to separate tagging done in a collective manner (each individuals contribution is held separate and collected or aggregated to build a fuller understanding, as the tagging is done by and from the individual reading the media for their own retrieval and is also share out with others). Collaborative tagging does take place and there is a need for it in certain situations, but it is not folksonomy.

Get tagging Tagging content and then using these tags to find information relevant to you is a great way of accessing the vast quantities of information that is available online. To get tagging. Set up an account with Delicious , and bookmark content your see and enjoy online. Image by StreetFly JZ via Flickr We wrote last week about the rise of social web literacy – how people are having to get used to a new way of communicating and a new way of using language to share information and ideas.

In his spare time, he is also a student and teacher of Japanese swordfighting. Wednesday August 20, 2008 Enterprise Tagging Service social software saves IBM $4.6 The following story focuses on a particular task, that of social tagging. The Enterprise Country/region [ select ] Terms of use All of dW --------------­-- eServer Information Mgmt Lotus Rational Tivoli WebSphere Workplace --------------­-- Autonomic computing Grid computing Java technology Linux Open source Power Architecture SOA & Web services Web architecture Wireless XML --------------­-- dW forums --------------­-- alphaWorks --------------­-- All of IBM Home