Reading Abject Learning last night and found a real use for tag. Brian Lamb provides a great example of tags in practice from the Northern Voice conference, he quotes Alexandra Samuel, here is the bit I found fantastic.
Tags are helping people solve problems and work smarter. When 350 bloggers gathered recently for Canada’s first blogging conference, Northern Voice, organizers wanted to mirror the live meeting with a lively online presence. With a limited budget, they couldn’t afford a team of videographers or stenographers.
So they asked participants to use the tag “northernvoice” in stories they wrote during the conference and in photos they posted online. The Northern Voice website automatically scoured the Web for those tags, and pulled the stories and images on to its own pages.
Therefore I am going to try an experiment and set up a category called BlogTalkDownunder to track my posts on the up and coming conference this week. Then through Technorati these posts can be tracked. Further any pictures I post on Flickr will have the same post.
I wonder if we can get everyone at the conference to do this?
Michael Specht 