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]]> http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20060310/update-choosing-effective-delicious-tags/comment-page-1#comment-2658 A Social Life » What are the personal benefits of tagging? (Part 1) Mon, 15 May 2006 22:48:44 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20060310/update-choosing-effective-delicious-tags#comment-2658 [...] One thing that the most useful of these reasons all have in common is that they allow the user to express tags using personal vocabulary. It takes a lot of work to settle upon a public vocabulary for any particular topic. As evidenced by endlessly recurring “what tag should we use for this?” conversations, the right terms might not even exist at the time of tagging! A purely selfish tagger has very little incentive to use common, group-accepted terms over words he uses every day. So one thing to assume while developing an enterprise app is that users do not want to be taught how to tag, at least not before they’ve gotten enough personal benefit to start accepting tagging. [...] [...] One thing that the most useful of these reasons all have in common is that they allow the user to express tags using personal vocabulary. It takes a lot of work to settle upon a public vocabulary for any particular topic. As evidenced by endlessly recurring “what tag should we use for this?” conversations, the right terms might not even exist at the time of tagging! A purely selfish tagger has very little incentive to use common, group-accepted terms over words he uses every day. So one thing to assume while developing an enterprise app is that users do not want to be taught how to tag, at least not before they’ve gotten enough personal benefit to start accepting tagging. [...]

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