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1.20.2006
TOP SIX THINGS TO DO TO ORGANIZE YOUR TAGS
During the last few day I am in a rush of organizing my "lazy sheep-generated" del.icio.us tags.
I'll ammend my thoughts and sharings on organizing tags and folksonomy issues under this post.
This post may be updated at any time when some new idea pops up in my mind, so bear with me.
Here are my simple, yet effective rules, of tag organization.
1. Use as little number of tags as possible:
Describe an entry with one tag, or at most two or three tags. More tags will lead to nothing but confusion.
2. Tag for yourself, not for others:
Your del.icio.us space is for you on the first hand. So tag your items that have meaning to you.
Something that is certainly your BUSINESS and which can be tagged as business may not be a BUSINESS to other. That does not matter. Just tag it.
3. Use common sense and utilize suggestion:
Most of the time a tag that del.icio.us offers will suit your entry just fine. Don't re-invent the wheel use common tags as much as possible.
4. Use UPPERCASE for your tags:
That's because most automated tag generators (such as lazy sheep) use lowercase for importing tags and/or autogenerating tags (such as .toread, .todo, .todescribe etc.)
When you use uppercase, you will know which items you have tagged already, and which items are waiting to be tagged, by simply looking at the tags you have.
5. Use singular tags:
I mean use TOOL, instead of TOOLS; INNOVATION instead of INNOVATIONS.
Using singular case is more object oriented first of all. Plus, by this way you will not fall into the dilemma of whether to tag something as INNOVATION or INNOVATIONS. Just skip the little "s" at the end.
6. Organize your tags daily:
So that you will not have to struggle with a tag cloud consisting of thousands of entries and hundreds of tags.
That's it.
By following these simple steps, you will soon find that your del.icio.us entries are really easy to find / share and follow.
I'll ammend my thoughts and sharings on organizing tags and folksonomy issues under this post.
This post may be updated at any time when some new idea pops up in my mind, so bear with me.
Here are my simple, yet effective rules, of tag organization.
1. Use as little number of tags as possible:
Describe an entry with one tag, or at most two or three tags. More tags will lead to nothing but confusion.
2. Tag for yourself, not for others:
Your del.icio.us space is for you on the first hand. So tag your items that have meaning to you.
Something that is certainly your BUSINESS and which can be tagged as business may not be a BUSINESS to other. That does not matter. Just tag it.
3. Use common sense and utilize suggestion:
Most of the time a tag that del.icio.us offers will suit your entry just fine. Don't re-invent the wheel use common tags as much as possible.
4. Use UPPERCASE for your tags:
That's because most automated tag generators (such as lazy sheep) use lowercase for importing tags and/or autogenerating tags (such as .toread, .todo, .todescribe etc.)
When you use uppercase, you will know which items you have tagged already, and which items are waiting to be tagged, by simply looking at the tags you have.
5. Use singular tags:
I mean use TOOL, instead of TOOLS; INNOVATION instead of INNOVATIONS.
Using singular case is more object oriented first of all. Plus, by this way you will not fall into the dilemma of whether to tag something as INNOVATION or INNOVATIONS. Just skip the little "s" at the end.
6. Organize your tags daily:
So that you will not have to struggle with a tag cloud consisting of thousands of entries and hundreds of tags.
That's it.
By following these simple steps, you will soon find that your del.icio.us entries are really easy to find / share and follow.
