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.

Term Hijacking - My ontology is better than your ontology…

I thought I’d point out this summary of a series of posts from the Taxonomy Community of Practice summarized by one our our consultants, Stephanie Lemieux, on the Taxonomy Wiki. In case you missed it, here is an excerpt:
“An interesting offshoot of the traditional terminology debate (what is a taxonomy/thesaurus/ontology – insert term here) [...]

Encouraging participation in communities or repositories

Someone on the Taxonomy Community of Practice (TaxoCoP) recently wrote about methods to improve usage of knowledge management repositories. The challenge of encouraging and measuring participation is a tough one. You might build a terrific application with a great taxonomy and people may not use it.
A repository is only as good as the content [...]