Folksonomy versus Taxonomy

A client recently forwarded a blog post to me about folksonomies and asked if this is something we should consider.

Here is my take: Social Tagging (use of “Folksonomies”) has a valid place in the scheme of things. We can use them as a source for candidate terms or new term harvesting. They [...]

Design for social tagging

A few comments in the feedback surveys from last week’s Taxonomy Community of Practice call on social tagging demonstrated a growing interest in design for social media. Part of Rashmi Sinha’s presentation during this call covered some key elements of design for social tagging, leaving our attendees wanting more!
We are hoping to have another call [...]

This month’s Taxonomy Community of Practice call: Social Tagging

Note (added August 2nd, 2006): you can purchase an archived recording of this call, visit our website.
We have an interesting topic and great speakers for this month’s Taxonomy Community of Practice conference call… Social Tagging & Folksonomies - July 26, 2:00PM EST.

Thoughts in cages

In my mind, everything boils down to a name. We name things all the time in our day-to-day lives. We think in terms of categories, lists, things that need to be done. The essence of language is to represent concepts - representations of our thinking.