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Tagging FAQ
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What is tagging?
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| A: | Tagging is a way to apply words, or “tags”, to items like comments to make it easier to return to them later. You can also find content by clicking on the tags that others have used - like the list on the site-wide home page. |
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What can I tag?
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| A: | You can tag comments, discussions, personal news, profiles and workspaces - if you are a member of ned.com. |
| A: | You tag an item by typing one or more words its tagging box and clicking "Save". Each word is a tag. A tagging box is located at the bottom of each comment, discussion and workspace and is labeled "my tags". |
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How do I tag something more than once?
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| A: | To tag an item with multiple tags, separate each word with a space or a comma. If you want to a tag to an item you already tagged, make sure you don't erase the old tag when you add the new one. |
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How do I combine words to create one tag?
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| A: | You can use a dash to make two words into one tag. Underscores or slashes will be converted to dashes. For example "sudan-crisis", "sudan/crisis" or "sudan_crisis" will all appear as the tag "sudan-crisis". |
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Why doesn't my tag show up on the site-wide home page?
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| A: | The number of tags displayed on the site-wide home page is limited to 80. These are selected based on the number of people who have used it as a tag. |
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How do I erase a tag?
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| A: | Your old tags will appear in the tagging box at the bottom of each item you tagged. You can remove one or more tags by erasing them from the tagging box and clicking on "Save". |
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Why should I tag?
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| A: | The main reason to tag is to be able to find a pieces of content later on. It's like bookmarking but more powerful because you can apply more than one tag to one item and apply one tag to multiple items. You might also want to tag items to point them out to others. |
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What is a tag cloud?
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| A: | Tag cloud is the name of a list of tags that appear as a cluster like those on the site-wide home page. |
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Where can I make give feedback on tagging features?
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Look for tagging discussion in the help groups soon.
Page name: Tagging FAQ
Last editor: Jim Carroll (65)
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:58:32 PDT
Tags: faq
Feedback score: 0