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Tagging As a Community Building Tool I'm just finished an awesome book called Tagging: People-Powered MetaData for the Social Web by Gene Smith. It sounds like a dry subject, but tagging is really super cool and ha massive implications for the design, building and nurturing of online communities and I thought I'd jot down some notes I took straight out of the book so you can see why. ************************************* How tagging works: 1) Tags are multiple ways of finding something 2) Tags are a way to browse 3) Tags are part of a community pool - act as a bridge between personal and community knowledge 4) Tags connect objects to other objects 5) Tags are hooks used to pull information together from other website that use tags, like Technorait, Flickr, Delicious. Tags by themselves are like a filing system without files - needs USERS and RESOURCES to be useful. Tags can be created from three perspectives: - Information Architecture (organizational content) - Social Software - to facilitate group interaction - Personal Information Management (PIM) - organizing stuff for an individual's use. There can be friction between these. Tagging is related to the re-emergence of oral culture online. (Alex Wright) Tagging is NOT like folders, where you move something from one place (inbox) to another (folder) - tags allow things to live is several places at once. Tagging is SOCIAL = personal + collaborative at the same time. Tags show minority viewpoints as well as consensus. (Tag Clouds are a visualization of this). Value Centered Design = value comes from balancing the goals of the people who create the system (RETURN ON INVESTMENT) with those of the people who use the system (RETURN ON EXPERIENCE). Motivations for users to tag (ROE): - ease of use - to manage personal info - sharing and collaborating (---> communities of interest) - fun - self-expression Business benefits (ROI): - to facilitate collaboration - to obtain descriptive metadata - to enhance fin

"Build a personal research library. As a graduate student, one of the things you are most likely to be doing at any given time is reading (although you'll note that @j_l_r below recommends not doing all of what's assigned!). You will read articles, book chapters, and entire books much faster than you would have ever thought possible. And unless these articles fall into your area of interest, you might be inclined to forget about them as soon as the seminar meeting is passed. But we'd like to suggest that you begin as early as possible in your studies to build a personal research library. A personal research library is a record of what you've read and what you thought about it. It can be as simple as a citation, a few keywords, and a brief abstract. We'd recommend using Zotero (see Amy's posts on Getting Started with Zotero, parts One and Two) or EndNote, but even a box of 3x5 cards is better than trying to remember that really great essay from your first semester in grad school five years down the road when you're writing your dissertation. A little extra work now will pay big dividends in the future, especially if you change your research project."

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

I see this as especially important for that e-portfolio I did for library school. I did a lot of extra research because I didn't remember/know where to find many of the articles I had read that would be useful support for my ideas on the competencies.

See the chart constructed from a lecture by Terry Winograd LIBRARY CULTURE vs. INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL CULTURE

Learning theory as it developed from behavioralism (Pavlov) and importance in psychotherapy

Good background article by seminal thinker/researcher in area of information-seeking behavior (T.D. Wilson)