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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. social networking.

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

Challenge to Learn

The first two days were mostly about networking, but today I was able to attend three sessions and the last keynote. After all when it comes to computers and the web most of the learning community are still non native speakers. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about.

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

That's the power of the social network. The power of Twitter lies in filtering a personal network rather than in preformed groups which you do not have control over. We want folksonomy not heirarchy. But both have the same underlying principle that people can connect and communicate using them. Twitter is not Facebook.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

What might a PKM program in your organization look like, and how can it leverage social networking tools? This panel shows how individuals and organizations are successfully implementing and gaining value from a PKM strategy that includes social networking tools. Want to see the best in Enterprise 2.0

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

folksonomy rather than standardization. Pathway to community; you have to be embedded in the community to help. Complex communities of practice where individual identity is constructed. We are all in these communities so it’s easier for us–how do you help average knowledge workers? Now, new tools.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

I responded (as you do) with my own version: "A folksonomist: one who organises information in ways that make sense to his/her own community of practice or interest." I was thinking about individuals tagging and organising their own content using tools such as Delicious , and then making them available to others.