Librarians Reaching Out to Millennials with Social Tools
Friday, March 9, 2007
Folksonomies
- Folk + taxonomy = folksonomy ("tags")
- Collaborative (mob) categorization
- Users pick descriptive terms for content
- User centered
- User controlled
- Think differently than librarians
- Subscribe to tags with RSS
- Used by Yahoo, Gmail, Blogger, Amazon
- Pew Internet Report on Tagging
Archives
