Hurricane Katrina: Tagging
Just as I start thinking about patterns to bridge online efforts, Staci posts this: Trust But Verify: Hurricane Katrina: Tagging: "Hurricane Katrina: Tagging
Efforts are underway to harness the vast amount of information being generated about Hurricane Katrina. If you are hosting sites providing critical information, please tag according to your purpose so your site and posts can be identified -- katrina and missing, safe, searching, housing, survivor, food, jobs, volunteer, donate, collect, links, photos, reference, etc. If you see sites that aren't using tags, please encourage it -- not everyone knows what tags are or how to use them -- and/or link to them with the appropiate tags via sites like del.icio.us , furl , MyWeb2.0 Some blogging software converts categories to tags. "Thinking about forward looking tags can be challenging. katrniacommunityrebuilding?
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posted by Nancy White at 8:29 AM
3 Comments:
Thanks, Nancy. I'm not very good at some of this and my guess is a lot of people are hesitant about tags. Can you suggest anyone who could a simple one-pager on tagging katrina -- including cut-and-paste options and how to tag other people's pages?
Staci, I've sent some email queries to see if we can get help. If anyone else wants to jump in, what we are envisioning is a one pager:
* quick overview of tags for the non technical
* a table with some key katrina related tags and the code one would need to put them in a blog post
* a short tutorial on how to make the code for other tag words
I am working on creating an entry in my blog about tagging Katrina. I made a tutorial once on tagging using del.icio.us. I am going to look at that to start with and add more. I want to focus on del.icio.us, flickr, and technorati. I am familiar with these 3.
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