Tagging and Social Book Marking

Under the Social Media Tools and Services in the Tagging and Social Bookmarking lesson the major objectives I found are:-

• to understand the concept and purpose of tagging and social bookmarking; and

• to know how tagging and social bookmarking work within social media services

What I learned and discovered from this lesson are summarized below.

The meaning and use of metadata, that is, as metadata allows users to describe information and provide context to information within the electronic file. The most important way in which we describe documents and files on social networking services is “tagging”, adding tags or labels.

Tagging is a term used to describe human indexing of material on the Web, in order to make it easier to find and share. Tagging provides content with context and meaning. Tagging can provide different ways to navigate through content and discover new information.

Social Bookmarking services allow users to save web addresses on the Internet, under a personal account, and tag each page you find with keywords. The social aspects of these services allow users to share and create a collaborative “folksonomy” to describe and locate content on the web. 

There are different ways in which sites and services allow you to visualize the aggregated tags that you and other users have created. Tag visualization includes graphics, tag clouds, aggregated lists, tag searches and tag combinations.

Tags are used in multiple social networking services and sites with different purposes: aggregating content about users, providing intuitive navigation, facilitating access to data and improving search results.

Web 2 Training Ethiopia

Web 2 training of this round by CTA, GIZ & SLM targeting to capacitate experts working in different regions of Ethiopia related to sustainable land management is interesting for me. I felt that I was ignorant of the potential of internet service that one can build easily to use free opportunities to play his/her role for development.

In this training I learned how to use internet and I discovered how to participate in wiki, how to create a bog, tracing a project on Google map. What I need to suggest is that the training should emphasize and give more time participatory spatial information management and communication and free data sources for this activity, because the target is SLM.

In general the training is useful that enable me to get new knowledge and skill.

Natural Resource Concervation for Livelihood Transformation

To ensure economic growth in Ethiopia, particularily in Amhara region our envaironment should be conserve. Natural resource conservation mean wise use of  resourses. Conservin vegitation is conserving water, conserving micro climate, conserving wildlife, conserving soil. Conserving these is rasing land productivity and leading to economic secuirity. 


Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA) has three main programs one of this is natural resource management programme that focus mainly on greening Amhara region and integreted watershed managment.