As a sector we are building content sharing capacity using new tools and new practices.

Tagging is one of the ways we can categorise our content, help others find our content and share it in a pool of content to enrich the power of dicussions. It's those "clouds" again.  Think like a cloud and make a storm

There are many well used tags globally with a predominant voice from the US nonprofit sector, such as nptech, however what we want to do is channel some loacl content and local conversations. So as well as using these global tags we ask you to also use local tags for content generated in Oz.

Some tag suggestions below  :

np = nonprofit

au = Australia

npau = nonprofit sector in Australia

Subject extensions:

• Green ( environmental)
• Gov ( governance)
• Give (Fundraising)
• Gov2 (Government transparency movement)
• Mkt (marketing)
• Devt (capacity development)
• 3rdsec (third sector)

For example:

• nptech = nonprofit technology
• nptechau = nonprofit technology in Australia
• gov2au = the new government web 2.0 movement of transparency – open information
  in Australia
• npgreen = nonprofits concerned about being green (environmentally conscious)
• npmktau = nonprofit marketing australia
• npgiveau = nonprofit fundraising australia

Please suggest more or alert us to any you are currently using so we can share them with the nonprofit sector across Australia and build their presence in our tag cloud as well as the popular tools such as hastags.org and technorati.com

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.