You might have noticed we've prettied ourselves up this week at Social Ch@nge - we've been listening to you and changing the site to work even better for you. There's a share button, an option to subscribe via email, reader's comments up front where you can see 'em, and there's a kinder, gentler 404 page. But we need some more help.

I happened to sit by Seth Horwitz, organizer of Philly Net Tuesday. As an Information Architect, I was happy to learn that Seth has a background in library and information science. We waxed poetic about name tags and how we liked ones that have personality and content. "Name Tags Are Metadata" Says Seth. Yes!

He pointed me to his blog post on name tags, and the tags people created at the IA Summit in Vancouver.
Maybe at next year's NetSquared conference...

This is my first year not being at NetSquared in person and I'm trying to figure out the best way to follow (and maybe even engage with) the goings-on from here in North Carolina.

I just started using friend feed and I wonder if their "room" function might be helpful here. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/

I also plan to attend the event in SecondLife tomorrow, although I'm not sure what time is best to visit.

Other suggestions?

I have here a picture of what the tags for the Hope Meter project could look like.  As a quick reminder for someone who wandered onto this blog, the idea is that items would be rated according to whether they make the user feel more or less hopeful.  In this case, I have given positive-rated items a blue color and negative ones a red color.  The spectrum of things tagged would in most cases result in some shade of purple, assuming that most pages tagged would be a mixture of positive and negative things.   I think if you look at the example you'll get a better idea of what I am saying.

 Please remember that this is only an example and not neccessarily  representative of my personal opinions.  

Here's the link for a larger picture:

Google:
1,310,000 for little +fish +big +pond
Ok, I make websites for a living. Well, I do a lot of other stuff too, but one of the things I do is make websites. I make these sites 90% of the time for small to medium sized companies, and of course these days everyone knows (well just about everyone, I do occasionally still run into a person who thinks just cause they have a website for their TOTALLY off the wall widget they are going to instantly sell a million of the dang things and retire on an island they buy with the money, anyway…) almost everyone knows if you build it, it doesn’t mean they’ll come. Enter SEO, Search Engine Optimization that is: SEO, SEM, META-Tags, Pay-Per-Click, etc.

I just learned about an article titled The next BIG thing: Tagging your Internet searches. It is about tagging and the different tagging sites.