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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. Tags: Customer Communities Social Networks Web 2.0

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Also, it only indicates what the presenters and conference organizers (for that data set) thought that the audience would be interested in and was worth presenting at the conference. Just a thought. And she's absolutely correct, that these are only general indications of what people are talking about. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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

Challenge to Learn

The most likely scenario probably is that the younger generation will just take over from us and organizes learning in their own digital native way. It will allow you to structure, organize, reuse and deliver your content. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Way Back Machine. Enter the URL in the search field and then click the "Take Me Back" button.

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

Lisa Gualtieri, Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine wrote an article called Learn from Rogue Tweeters: 7 Steps to Promoting Your Organization in Twitter. trying to make it formal…big diff), said: why does it bother me that people/organizations think that somehow they need to “adopt” this mysterious thing called “informal learning.”?

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Taskonomies: Why beer and diapers go well together

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I also love the idea of Folksonomies instead of taxonomies. I think the idea of user, or group generated tagging and organization is VERY closely related to taskonomy. But note that some stores have learned to provide activity-centered organization in addition to their normal classification.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Organic metatags? Folksonomies? Self-organizing ontologies? The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Screencasting Del.icio.us. Del.ioci.us? The Power of Design. The evidence of design's power is everywhere.