Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content. By Joshua Porter Originally published: Apr 26, 2005 Thanks to Patric Conrad for providing a Belorussian translation of this article. Many of the design teams we talk to face the same major issue: how to organize the information on their sites. From creating navigation schemes to developing site hierarchies to refining checkout sequences, it’s highly important for design teams to organize information effectively for their users.
Information architects frequently must deal with the problem of managing more and more information. The Frustration with Taxonomies One of the most common strategies for organizing content is to place it in a taxonomy. This classification of living things works well for scientists because everyone is dealing with the same information: the information about living things. Although taxonomies are common, it can be difficult for design teams to implement them.
Folksonomies: A New Approach Folksonomies Address Taxonomy Difficulties Folksonomies aren’t a cure-all, however. Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Try it Free. 20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles. In an inspired blog post, Jason Kottke said that social networks aren't helping us organize; since all of them require different credentials to log in, they're just adding to the noise. He just might be up to something there. It's getting harder and harder to remember all those logins, passwords, and most importantly to remember which of your friends are using what network. Social network aggregators is a relatively new breed of applications which try to consolidate all your various social networking profiles into one, with varying success. Let's check out 20 biggest competitors in this field. Profilactic Profilactic has very recently been upgraded to version 2, which brought a decent amount of new features - a new look, support for Pownce, LinkedIn, Shelfari, and the ability to add more than one account for the same site.
Minggl Minggl is a browser toolbar that works with Firefox, IE and Flock and promises to "put you in control of your social web universe". iStalkr Correlate.us Explode.us. Collecta. Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major ... The activity of Social Bookmarking has been around for almost two decades. If you have engaged in social media, chances are you’ve participated in it without even realising you have done so.
Ever sent a link to a friend knowing they’ll enjoy receiving the content you’ve sent? That in itself is social bookmarking! >>Readmore Knowing what content drives people, simply as a social media user or maybe as an editor or creator of a news site, media site or website, is the key to getting the information you want to get across to the correct audience.
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