Comments on: Tagging And Metadata and Why Bother

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Best Social Media Advice From This Site | chrisbrogan.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:08:22 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:43:05 +0000

Chris,

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a while and your post has started to make some sense out of it for me.

However, just when I thought the clouds were parting, one of your very simple comments confuses things for me.

When you make the example of two different people tagging content two different ways, it seemed like you were suggesting that it was the tags that would help each of them find the other’s content.

What I’m still struggling to understand is HOW? Isn’t this exactly the issue we have with categories? If I tag something as “elearning” how is the person who considers it “distance learning” ever going to find my stuff? Won’t he continue to search on the tags he is comfortable with?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:46:28 +0000

I’m creating a new site, and I’m seriously wondering if it’s worth it at all to tag my posts.

On my last site, I did… had a big ol’ tag cloud and everything… but testing showed me that it almost never got clicked.

Like Douglas Karr and Scramblejam said, I like seeing what I’ve done, but is it of use to users? Doubting it, seriously.

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Update to getting on native networks — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:01:58 +0000

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Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:06:49 +0000

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By: Michelle / chelpixie

Michelle / chelpixie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:19:09 +0000

Amanda Gravel talks about del.icio.us and why she tags EVERYTHING so that people can find her and figure out who she is and what interests her.

Awesome idea.

http://socialhoneycomb.com/delicious-portfolio

By: Scramblejam

Scramblejam — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:49:38 +0000

I love the idea of tagging, and am trying to use it more effectively across my life… One strategy I am using is to have a Netvibes section dedicated to the main tags that I use – This reminds me BOTH to tag things, and what common tags I use…

I can now do a quick search across all my preferred sites for a single tag, and it will return Flickr pictures, del.icio.us links, and my blog posts.

By: Susan F. Heywood

Susan F. Heywood — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:44:02 +0000

One of the ways I use tagging extensively is on del.icio.us. This enables an RSS feed for each tag. For many of the tags I use, these feeds are used to populate and automatically update link content on specific sites, in particular my Squidoo lenses and i-digg.com site.

By: chrisbrogan

chrisbrogan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:51:12 +0000

By the way, this guy is doing some serious thinking about tag clouds.

By: Bigg Success

Bigg Success — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:49:39 +0000

We definitely tag our posts, both blogs and articles. We use Headspace 2 in the Wordpress Plugins. Makes it very easy to add tags, and a page description. Plus, it will suggest tags to add once you have hit “save & continue”.

http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/