In a previous essay, I wrote about the cognitive aspect of tagging - describing how people tag, and why they find it easy. There is another, equally important aspect of tagging that I did not touch upon - the "why" of tagging. Why do people tag? For many,
Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
Meatball is a community of active practitioners striving to teach each other how to organize people using online tools. Members here are either community managers or are building supporting tools; MeatballOutreach lists some of our affiliated projects. We
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B. Adler, and L. de Alfaro. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, page 261-270. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)