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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

So for me, it's not quite the folksonomy effect that most people talk about, but based on these articles, I'm starting to think that's what other people are finding as well. Sharing - I tag items that I plan to share with a specific tag so that others in my group can find it.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). More is becoming known about the effects the changing Web is exerting upon teaching and learning.

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

I believe that this will impact our learning (and authoring) world heavily, it means that we will be able to make and maintain content in a more effective way. And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

In fact Peter wrote what was probably the definitive book on the subject, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , which I vaguely recall reading some time back (I find that now I blog a review of any book I read, I remember much more, which for me is an invaluable side effect of blogging).

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

Is there also hardware with similar effects? It will lead to the classification of knowledge through folksonomies and to the extended web which combines social and information richness. I get information fast and I get in contact with people who are experts in this particular field. Smartphones are disruptive. for cyber bullying.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/15/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Is organizational effectiveness and diversity enrichment enhanced by MBTI? The Name Game - folksonomies - CIO. From a collaboration and knowledge-sharing perspective, that's what's neat about folksonomies. He talks about technologies, how they are now aimed inward and gives a number of s curve examples.