More expanding of my lexicon today.....
Some wonderful new words to add to my vocabulary--folksonomy, tag clouds, lemming, and camels. Very interesting.
Tagging and using a social bookmarking web site does have definite advantages. I presently use different computers whether at work, home, library, or at friends/families homes. It definitely would make my navigation for information in alternate locations much easier and efficient. I can see how useful tags are to find related information rather than having to "recreate the wheel" every time you are trying to locate information on a particular topic or interest. This is sort of like having an army of "like-minded" individuals seeking out information. I guess the key to tagging is to use some standard tags that individuals are using that you find out through lemming and then add some key tags that you feel are appropriate as well.
Tagging would definitely help me in organizing my digital sites into areas that are not just related to speech-language pathology, but could be subcategorized into articulation, language, fluency, voice, dysphagia, aphasia, etc. These subcategories could be further tagged by specifics such as phonemes, language area, type of voice disorder, diet, executive function, etc. I can see how important it is to think about the most appropriate tags for labeling your digital item.
One potential problem with bookmarks might be that you can use too generalized of a tag and still have to sort out alot of web sites looking for the specific information that you thought a certain site would be useful. I think the positives outweigh the disadvantages with tags. Just need to be careful to appropriately tag so that you are using objective descriptors rather than subjective or inappropriate labels.
The potential of tagging is quite impressive. Having the ability to network with others to find "jewels" in the greater Internet world is exciting. The saying that "many hands make lite work" definitely applies to tagging and utilization of social networking. I look forward to getting started in the next Thing. Gregory Jacoby
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