Hashtags are everywhere in social media. They add meaning and context to our microblogging and can be of great value to brands and businesses when used correctly. Well what exactly is a hashtag? It’s essentially a word or a phrase that categorize and add context to our message. When used … Continue reading
Anyone who spends any time on the Internet, particularly on social media sites like Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram knows the importance of taxonomy. Tax-a-what? Taxonomy is a fancy word. Perhaps you are more familiar with other terms like hashtags, categories, keywords, vocabularies or metadata. It’s more formally defined as a … Continue reading
Presently I’m taking a rather geeky course at Coursera called Metadata: Organizing and Discovering collections. With any course on this topic, there is a lot of information that seems fairly obvious with a smattering of other technical information that screams, “Why do I need to know this?”. (Because it is … Continue reading