Top 10 Tagging Best Practices for Anything Web 2.0 - armchair theorist

Top 10 Tagging Best Practices for Anything Web 2.0 - armchair theorist

Be consistent . This rule is so important that it needs to be repeated here again. Whatever happens, pick a system and stick to it. Always use lower case letters . No exceptions. And spaces and hyphens are the only punctuation that I will use to separate different words in a phrase. Use nouns whenever possible . I always prefer “stupidity” to “stupid”, and “developer” or “development” (depending on the context) over “develop”. Try to limit the use of abbreviations . Although the goal is to make the tags as succinct as possible, I will still expand out abbreviations unless they are universally recognized either as a brand (like IBM or HP), or an industry buzzword (SOA or GTD ). Ambiguous abbreviations such as KM or PR I will expand them out as “knowledge management” and “public relations” respectively. The only exception is for extremely long abbreviations like “tokyo inter...

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