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Puzzled about tags?

Tewkesbury Flooded

I have just taken on a new Wordpress site to fight a housing development.  My day job is advising charities on CRM - its interesting being on the other side of the fence. Our contention is that apart from trashing the precious English countryside it will also increase the risk of scenes like the above from last year, if spongy fields near the Severn are replaced by concrete runoff. It sounds like a no-brainer, but attracting interest to a protest site like this is not so easy. I am going to have to re-read Beth Kanter from the start, but in the mean time it would be nice to find some tags that work for me.

How do you work out what works in an area outside your normal sphere of work - seems pretty hit and miss to me. Delicious and Twitter seem the obvious startpoints but famring them for like minded campaigners is not so straightforward.  I already had a moan about this on my blog here. Any contributions on how to track down key tags in specific sectors very welcome!

 Charles

Submitted by csbagnall on October 9, 2008 - 5:35am
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Ideas for delicious

The longer I think about the more ideas come to mind!  Here's a place to start, a circle if you will around Delicious.

Search in Delicious for websites or organization that have taken on similar work and then see which terms they have been tagged with.  Then, search those tags and see what other sites, resources, campaigns and organizations have been tagged.  You can learn a lot by looking at similarities and differences just in those two searches!

I LOVE Google alerts - one of the best free tools on the web.  You can set up some Google alerts using those tags as well as the name of your campaign, city, region, issue, etc.  An easy way to find conversations as they pop up about your issue so you can jump in!

Thanks for sharing your project on Net2!

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on October 9, 2008 - 6:59am.

tags

Thanks Amy

Google Alerts - yes I latched on to them when they first came out, began to drown in info over load and turned them all off again! But now I have a much better reason for using them and a more focusssed one it could be an important piece in the jigsaw.

Thanks for the tips on using Delicious too (when are they going to lose the dots?)

Submitted by csbagnall on October 9, 2008 - 7:55am.

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