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NEW: Event Tagging (Use It)

While some of the features of BON 2.0 might be considered 'take it or leave it,' depending on your preferences, one of the new site functionalities we'd really love to see everyone take advantage of is Event Tagging.

When composing a Fan Post or Fan Shot for BON, authors will always have the option to tag the story using the various mechanisms on the right side of the posting page (shaded in blue). Note that one such mechanism is labeled "Events"; with it, an author can tag his story to a specific game/event in the site database. The beauty of the system is that all content tagged to any given event will appear on that game's event page.

For example, I've now tagged four stories to the Florida Atlantic-Texas game. By clicking on the "COMPLETE COVERAGE" button at the bottom of the "Upcoming Game" box in the left sidebar of BON's main page, a reader will be taken to the contest's game page.

Of all the tagging tools available on this site (there are many, they all are wonderful), this is by far the most useful. This site is driven in no small part by community-generated content; if all of you start event tagging when posting an item relating to a specific game, we'll all be the better for it by being able to browse pre-sorted game-relevant content in one tidy page.

And now, in case you struggle with basic drop down menus, some pictures. Hooray.

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The only possible confusion might arise from that top right menu, which you'll need to change to 'Upcoming' for a game not yet played. If, however, you're writing on a Monday about the past Saturday's game, you'll leave the menu in the 'Completed' slot and choose the appropriate game before clicking 'add'.

It's that simple. Thanks in advance.

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by TwistNHook on Aug 27, 2008 10:57 AM CDT   0 recs

Consistency in tagging

Be it noted that I need to tag my stuff; been somewhat lax.

The other point is that for accurate data collection and cross referencing, consistency in tagging should have some formal structure and guidelines.

EX: Vince Young

There are a ton of references to him: VY, VY10, 10, Vince, Vincent Young and more; if you tag all those differently, all the Vince Young references would be scattered across the blogoverse, but if we decide on a single collective tag (say, Vince Young) then they’ll all be grouped together and easily referenced.

So, the formality should be with proper names, first and last, and common specific references to make the tagging process more effective and make the resulting tag cloud smaller and more accessible.

Not to go tag nazi on anyone, it is one of the processes that will be much easier to define early in the process rather than later when the whole thing has grown chaotic and uncontrollable. With under 3,000 members, I know this doesn’t seem a big problem, but if this site should go 10X, the problem goes exponential. So let’s accommodate the software with some reasonable specifics. Of-the-wall tags, of course, are still permissible.

Didn’t mean to step on your toes, PB, but I’ve seen this process before and it is much wiser to get it under control early. Foresight, of course, is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

That said, the serious questions are more like: How do we formally reference landthieves or the aglets to carry the site-specific considerations and humor and still honor our core beliefs about these relationships? How nice is too damn nice, how formal is too damn formal? So, we need a tag preference list.

The floor is open to nominations.

by whills on Aug 27, 2008 1:01 PM CDT   0 recs

2 steps

first, do the official tagging of the team or game so that it connects all the posts in a logical manner. so in picture 1 above, pick a team, event and/or player related to your post from the pulldown menus.

second, make up your own clever tags in the free form box at the top — “land thieves” and what not.

by billyzane on Aug 27, 2008 1:24 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

That seems sensible, bz.

You know, I haven’t looked at the pull downs. They could contain the formal names, which would make it all quite easy.

by whills on Aug 27, 2008 1:30 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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