In the new world of managing information, creating information, participating in blogs, and other social media you will hear a lot about Tags.

What are tags?

Prior to the internet, classification had to be done by professionals because there was no way for users to classify.

According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata) In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information.

Tagging: adding a tag/label/keyword to a digital object (website, image, audio or video) to categorise it.

A user chooses a tag that is meaningful to him or her.

Tags can be public or private. Public, tags collectively create a folksonomy, a user-generated as opposed to a hierarchical taxonomy such as a subject thesaurus.

Author: Deanne Bullen

Index

1. Before you join
2. Why do people use twitter
3. Branding – Inserting your picture or logo
4. What’s on the side
5. Finding people you want to follow on twitter
6. Finding People to Follow
7. Posting your first Tweet
8. Explore
9. Twitter language and conventions
10. Managing twitter feeds
11. Twitter links for librarians

Before you join

I’m a big fan of twitter but there are many who think twitter is a waste of time. Before you set up a twitter account you might want to take a couple of moments to think about how twitter works and who you might like to follow and why.

Why do people use twitter

This is a question that has generated quite a bit of conversation. Following is a list of examples gathered from looking at discussions online, my own personal experience and from talking to others.

The Internet has opened up many possibilities for rights advocates. In order to make the best use of the online world for their campaigns, however, advocates need to know what services are available, how they can be used in an advocacy campaign, who owns them and their hidden dangers.

The Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy (http://onlineadvocacy.tacticaltech.org ) developed by Tactical Tech (http://www.tacticaltech.org), aims to expose advocates to online services that are quick to use and easy to understand. The guide provide descriptions of online services including social networking sites, image and video hosting services, and services that enhance an organizations web presence.

The guide also offers advice on where and when to use these services. Case studies, security concerns as well as the advantages and disadvantages of various web services are discussed, with the aim of improving advocates ability to conduct online advocacy campaigns.

The internet services listed in the guide covers four main areas in which advocates operate: informing and communicating; documenting and visualising; mobilising and coordinating; and bypassing and accessing.

Author : Dirk Slater

Source : www.tacticaltech.org

• Beth’s workshop – Take Me To the Social Web
• Beth’s Day 2 Key Note Presentation – (Play Video)
• Qik – videocast http://qik.com/video/82161
• Beth’s Blog http://beth.typepad.com/