This week our topic is "social tagging". We read a very interesting article by Hesham Allam that was published in the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management. My knowledge of social tagging was extremely limited before reading this article. His article was very interesting and makes a few great points for a new social tagger such as myself.
I particularly like the point he makes, that anyone can perform social tagging, by freely attaching keywords to the content of a Webpage. I am still a bit hesitant in this social networking world, so that point puts me at ease.Although, at the same time, I can completely understand why social tagging can be a bit ambiguous because there are no set guidelines. Social presence is a great motivator for social tagging and I can see how this can give an individual more freedom to express themselves through communication and ease of retrieval.
Social tagging is a great concept, and I have been looking at sites where this is done. I have become familiar with flickr, which I think is a great website to share info. I will be doing my book review via a flickr presentation. Our next assignment will be to look at additional social tagging cites and I will post on that next.
I will end this post by tagging this with the appropriate tags.
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