Comments on: Categories and Tags http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/ We Bring Knowledge to You Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Customize your LIS blog subscriptions « Library & Information Services http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-16379 Customize your LIS blog subscriptions « Library & Information Services Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:18:59 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=18361#comment-16379 [...] check out an earlier post I made about how the LIS Website team set up Categories and Tags on this blog. Tags: blogging communication RSS feeds [...]

]]> By: Alex Chapin http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-11901 Alex Chapin Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:06:41 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=18361#comment-11901 This seems like a good strategy for determining how to use categories and tags. Indeed this is as challenging problem. Here’s some other recommendations I’d make re: tagging:

1. When posting, click on the on link to “Choose from most used tags in Post Tags” and see if you can find an existing tag that describes your content before creating a new tag
2. Keep tags short, ideally single word if possible
3. Keep tags as general as possible so that they are more likely to be used in other posts
4. Use tags to provoke new thinking, to encourage others to think and tag in the same way
5. Use tags to complement, not duplicate categories

]]> By: Jess Isler http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-9781 Jess Isler Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:35:53 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=18361#comment-9781 You’re welcome, Arabella. I think everyone should feel free to add categories or tags to other posts where they are missing (or inappropriate, but I doubt we’ll encounter too many of these)–so please feel free to change any I added if you think another term is more appropriate. Thanks!

]]> By: Arabella Holzapfel http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-9771 Arabella Holzapfel Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:28:50 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=18361#comment-9771 This is very helpful – thanks, Jess. Thanks also for tagging and categorizing my previous post on accessing the results of federally-funded research!

]]> By: Jess Isler http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/12/15/categories-and-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-9671 Jess Isler Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:23:59 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=18361#comment-9671 An additional note on categories and tags and RSS:
We’re hoping category and tag feeds from this blog will be used on lots of LIS pages in the new Drupal site.
For instance, the Collection Management Drupal page could have a blog feed from the blog category “Collection Management”, and Special Collections could have a tag feed from the tag “Special Collections”.

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