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Grow Your Wiki

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He did set a nice background for my upcoming pitch & really really worth while going through! Thomas Vander Wal explains folksonomy - using social taging to organize knowledge based on interconnections between people. Start together - wiki with a purpose; 6. What a GREAT session from Stewart.

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Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective

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The articles Folksonomies: Tags Strengths, Weaknesses And How To Make Them Work and Tag Literacy provides some good background. Lets say that youve been asked to look at software simulation tools for an upcoming project. Some common mistakes: Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) - avoid this by almost always selecting an existing tag.

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