Other Tagging Platforms

I've been using del.icio.us throughout this newsletter to describe the functions and benefits of tagging. But remember it's not just bookmarks. Flickr tags photos, blogs tag posts, music can be tagged on Last.fm, RSS feeds can be tagged in Google Reader, products can be tagged in some e-commerce sites.

And as far as bookmark tagging goes, del.icio.us isn't the only game in town. In fact I use Diigo (which automatically adds my tags to del.icio.us) because of its annotation options.

Normally, before I'd conclude a newsletter like this I'd list out a few of the other popular bookmarking and annotation sites. But since you now know about tagging you can just use my tags below to find them (check "tagging").

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claranne | December 10, 2008 11:20 AM

I am invdstigating ways to index an electronic newsletter I am invovled with. We need to archive some of the articles and make it searchable. Would tagging work for that activity? How would it work?

claranne.vogel@dese.mo.gov

Chris | December 10, 2008 11:22 AM

Claranne,

Tagging probably wouldn't do the trick. Tagging would be helpful for organizing this content by concepts or categories, and using something like Del.icio.us, you could let other people see it if they have common tags. Is this content already part of a website that you maintain?

Chris