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.

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It is all an area for exploration and growth in understanding, but digital social tools, for them to have more value for following and filtering the flows in more manageable ways need to more in grasping this more granular understanding of social interaction between people in a digital space. April 15, 2008 in Attraction , Attraction Receptor , Community , Folksonomy , Knowledge Management , Local InfoCloud , Model of Attraction , Portability , Privacy , Social Software | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference

Facebook, LinkedIn creates a new role and challenges for IM professionals, eg, metadata, taxonomy, folksonomy, governance, processes taxonomy and folksonomy. Some firms are allowing people to start with folksonomy, and then converting some of that to taxonomy after 2 years. Sarah Heal from Information Leadership is talking on the use of Web 2.0 tool in business ...

But, we do not impose our idea of what those topics should be – our users suggest business oriented topics (currently 1,600+) that are of interest to them thereby creating a topic folksonomy. You need to engage your users wherever they may be socializing on the Web – not just on your site – and so we are active on Twitter (@bwbx) as well as LinkedIn (more on that below) Q: I notice that you are This week's second Online Community Expert Interview is with Ron Casalotti . Ron is a Social Media guy who got his first PC in 1994.

There is hierarchy and a folksonomy. If Rachel has archive of several thousand items, with good search and folksonomy, can she get by without a taxonomy. (I I said something about buckets, Jim called it Taxonomy light) If they aren’t going to adopt folksonomy then you have to do tax They will do an implicit folksonomy whether you want them to or not based on what they choose to consume. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the

Though technology tools are increasingly common to help people find connections, from LinkedIn to Facebook, I find that even the most technology-savvy leaders rely on their own personal networks to find the best resources quickly. Its particularly compelling as it fits within the trend of democratization seen in crowd-sourcing and folksonomies of web 2.0. - Posted by John Abodeely November 17, 2009 4:29 PM Social network theory has been around for decades, has a strong mathematical basis

As an example, my newtorks on facebook and linkedin have nothing in common, links are built upon different criterias, in different contexts. Business oriented social objects can be blog posts, participation ino a wiki, the fact people are interested in the same things (same taxonomy of folksonomy on produced or read objects), the fact people exchange by email, IM etc… That wil help to emphasize a kind of intellectual or business proximity. Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad Home About Links Search: Subscribe to RSS Feed get latest updates on site news and site posts Read my original french blog You may no find here all my french notes...missing