[MG] Social mapping in crossforum theatre

[Michael Allan]

> > Practically speaking, how can we approach this as a cross-project
> > effort?  A project might want a "social skin" of it's own for the
> > theatre app, but lack the resources to complete it.  Or it might
> > face some other barrier.  Speaking for myself, I could try to be
> > helpful in whatever way is needed.  (This stuff is fun to code,
> > and I couldn't easily get too much of it on my plate.)

Ed Pastore wrote:
> Couldn't a tag cloud be the default for every community, with the
> option to incorporate other views as they are able? I have a lot of
> faith in the ability of tag clouds to fit much of the need, since
> they have a way of finding organization within whatever is at hand.

A social map, or another kind?  When I said that a "project might want
a 'social skin' of it's own," I meant a voting project.  Voting
usually produces social maps, but tagging usually produces other
kinds.

What objects would the users be tagging?

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Michael Allan

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