Tags vs. Hierarchy
Mar 16, 2009 Enterprise 2.0
They were easy enough to do, why not do more?
Tags vs. Hierarchy
Tagging Advantages:
- Results are much more contextual*
- Community tags
- Fits into many ‘categories’
- Tags are user generated
- Not lost in a sub-sub-sub folder
- Findability increases
- Learning increases
*With hierarchies you are limited to one category in which to place information. In reality, one piece of information may fit MANY different categories (sub-sub folders for example) and may fit in one for a particular context and not in the same for a different context. Tags allow for more than one ‘category’ and this information is not pigeonholed into one.
