Feb
12
Its been a while (sounds like a song, I know 
), but here is the second installment of the muti.co.za tutorials.
Tags is single keywords attached to a submission that link to all other submissions that have the same keyword attached to them. So if you read a submission tagged with a specific keyword, you can read similar submissions by clicking the tag word. Read more anout tagging here!
This tutorial focus on how to tag submissions in Muti and how to use tags.
To view the sreenshots in HTML, click here.
To download the screenshots in PDF format, click here.
technorati tags:muti.co.za, tagging, web2.0, socialnetwork, socialweb, africa
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Feb
05
Muti is now sporting some brand new features! You can add tags to your muti submissions to group submissions together. Great going Neville!
RafiQ from Your Group of Web AddiCT(s) made a brilliant blidget (Blog Widget) for your blog sidebars. It looks fantastic! A job well done RafiQ!!
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Jan
16
I love Technorati! I love the fact that you can RSS tag results. I love the fact that it shows me how many other Technorati registered blogs link to mine. BUT…
If I have to click on ONE more blog and get to a post that is a ping back to another blog that is a ping back to another that is a trackback to another that is the actual article, I’m going to scream! It seems like people are spamming Technorati to death. All the blog posts that gives Technorati tips have one point they hammer in which is “Its all about links, man”. So now everyone link posts to one another all of the time and it is annoying.
I would love to be able to click on a search result and get to the actual, original blog post rather than going from ping back to trackback before getting to the actual information I was hoping to find, then only to find its a bunch of crap!
Yes, Matt, some of them are BRILLIANT! but finding them on Technorati is a bitch! In all fairness, maybe its just my choice of tags that produce these pings and tracks…
technorati tags:technorati, blogs, pings, trackbacks
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Dec
22
Following up on my previous tutorial (Using Flock - RSS subscriptions) I will explain in this one a definite WINNER in the Flock browser!
In flock, the clever developer guys integrated their bookmarks with http://del.icio.us
Now I know there is some awesome Firefox (and Flock) third party extensions, but the great thing about this built in del.icio.us integration is that it stores your bookmark both on del.icio.us and in your normal bookmarks! Great isn’t it?!
Word of warning: if you do not know what del.icio.us is yet, go here, here and here!
So, to view the tutorial in HTML, click here.
To download an PDF document with the screenshots, click here.
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Dec
14
So I’m joining the tag game! Seems like great fun…
Chilibean says:
“I started bookmarking all the South African blogs that I could find on
del.icio.us with a view to creating a comprehensive directory of local
blogs a week ago or so. The idea came from my perception that the
local blogging scene is really small and underdeveloped. As I started
adding blogs to the list,
I quickly realised how big and varied the South African blogopshere
really is. There is so much amazing content out there that I really
feel privileged to be part of such a fantastic crowd of people. I have
been using del.icio.us to compile this list of local blogs and so far I have added over 80 blogs using the tag “sablogs“.”
Here are my five blogs:
Did I say five blogs? Like Douglas‘ trilogy of five…
technorati tags:sablogs
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Nov
10
A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.
Source: Wikipedia
These days every second web site uses tagging to organize their content. It is actually an extremely simple concept and has been around for ages, its just that nobody really saw the value in it until now!
How does tagging work?
Lets have a look at http://www.go2sa.co.za Lets suppose you are a member of the community and you are writing an article on a nature trail of about 3 miles to a waterfall. “Old” web sites will have a web master sitting behind a computer and he will submit a bunch of predetermined categories to which you can submit your article. In the context of your article, the webmaster gave you 2 choices for your article about your nature walk namely “Hikes and Trails” and “Nature Walks”. So you choose to submit your article to “Nature Walks”. But wait a minute… What about the waterfall?! So you first had to contact the webmaster and ask him very nicely if he could create a category “Waterfalls” so that you can add your article to that category too. Thats to say if the site allows you to save your article to more than one category, as many of the “old” sites do not allow for that!
Along comes tagging! After you have finished writing your article you can sit and decide how you want to categorize your article. You decide you want your article to be categorized under: Nature Walks, Hikes, Trails, Scenic Routes, Waterfall, Bird Life, etc… You basically highlight key issues in your article and use it for tagwords.
Now your article is “linked” to other articles using the same tagwords
as if you would have clicked on a category in an “old” site and a list
of articles would appear.
The benefits
One of the major benefits is that YOU are in control, NOT the webmaster. You can decide what you think is best to find your article.
It makes logically sense. It does not make sense to list your article only under “Nature Walks” as that is only a small part of what your article is about!
It allows for visitors to add tags to your article as they see fit. Let say there is a paragraph of bird watching in your article, but you never included “bird watching” as a tag word, somebody reading your article can add “bird watching” as a tag to your article!
Conclusion
The easiest way to look at tagging is to think of it as keywords to describe your article. You can also see it as creating “categories” on the fly. Very simple concept, but extremely powerful!
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