EDITORIAL Folksonomies boost Web 2.0 Functionality June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c)

olksonomies are inventive and useful tools that can help nursing faculty, leaders, specialists, and clinicians present conceptual models of links, documents and other electronic resources. Folksonomies are inventive Web 2.0 tools- great for categorizing documents and resources in a collaborative way on your web site, course site, blog, or community of practice web space! F What is Web 2.0? Essentially, Web 2.0 is a concept that shapes the online landscape into a platform for social connection, sharing, dialogue, and multimedia enhanced interaction. The goal? To promote social networking and creativity. It isn't really a "new " world wide web. Rather, it is a new perspective of how to use the Web to really capitalize on its ' ever-evolving capabilities. With the advent and usability of social software applications like blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video-sharing, community software, and mobile access, the structure and tools for Web 2.0 evolution were born. One of the people credited with the launching of the term, Tim O'Reilly described the history of Web 2.0 in this way: "The concept of "Web 2.0 " began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.&quot