Tagging, the best way to track information

September 25th, 2007 by Sarah Bel

Interview: Christian Kreutz

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Interview Nynke Kruiderink

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There is so much data on Internet that for most of us it is a headache to find the right information. We’ve been using Google to search for key words in the last couple of years but I was told at the Web2fordev that it was not an up to date approach.

Lot’s of people in the world develop repository on the same particular topic that is of our interest and we would gain time and knowledge if we could access their references. That’s what you can get by using wisely your Delicious account. That’s still a quiet revolution but worth investigate with Christian from GTZ and Ninke from IICD. How does tagging work and why does it work so well? What is the added value of tagging? In the first interview Christian presents the tagging revolution and how it goes further than merely sharing information as it seems to be the best way to join your own community of practice. Ninke then explains how with a group of colleagues, she started to use a common tag to identify and retrieve resources which would interest all of them and the benefit of this single taxonomy.


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  1. on 27 Sep 2007 at 11:04 am   WEB2FORDEV 2007 CONFERENCE - Latest digest of the Media team « APPA-SOURCE : The African News Source

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    […] week, during the web2fordev conference, I presented some web2.0 tools on the webtaster day, and interestingly, tagging triggered greater discussions. Tag clouds show the power of tagging […]

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