What

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Whats Folksonomy?
Social Bookmarking
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Facilitators
Stephan Ridgway, Workforce Development
Paula Williams, Workforce Development
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Session Overview

• How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and
  share online resources within social networks
• Understand the difference between taxonomic and
  folksonomic classification
• The personal (browser bookmarks) VS the Social
  (public tagging)
• The role of RSS in syndicating, mashingup and
  embedding tag feeds
• Overview of 2 social bookmarking tools
  http//del.icio.us/ http//www.diigo.com
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Tagging in Social Networks
How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and
share online resources within social networks
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Tagging in Social Networks

• Social Bookmarking - Short Version by Common
  Craft

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Social Bookmarking

• A means for storing, organising, searching and
  managing favourite sites on the web
• Organisation is based on tags or key words
  (individual or group)
• Bookmarks are listed chronologically, by category
  or tags, or via a search engine.
• RSS enabled subscribers can become aware of new
  bookmarks as they are saved, shared and tagged by
  other users.
• Newer tools have a range of other features such
  as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability
  to import and export bookmarks from browsers,
  emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups
  or social networking features

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User-Based Tagging and Folksonomies
Multiple concepts activated
Choose ONE of the activated concepts.
Categorize it!
Object worth remembering (article, image)
Analysis-Paralysis!
Image by Rashmi Sinha
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Taxonomic vs Folksonomic

• Taxonomy - The science of classification (The
  experts do it)
• From the greek verb
• Taxis "to classify
• Nomos "law, science, economy
• Hierarchical-enumerative top down tree like
  structure
• Hierarchies designed and maintained by experts
• Repositories cataloged by experts eg. libraries
• Structure imposed on the world of objects
• Centralised classification

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Taxonomic vs Folksonomic

• Folksonomy - Social classification (The Folks do
  it)
• Folk Taxonomy meaning that it emerges from the
  people
• Open democatic system
• Constantly evolving based on user interactions
  and consensus
• tags capture the social fabic at that moment in
  time
• Structure is an emergent property
• Well suited to rapidly changing heterogeneous
  information sources such as the internet and
  social networks

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RSS (real simple syndication)
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Tagging the wisdom of the crowds
Collective Intelligence The Knowledge of
Networks Connectivism
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Social Bookmarking Services
http//del.icio.us
http//www.diigo.com
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Questions
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Next Hot Topic Conversdation

• 3 Sept 2008
• myBusiness Project management