There’s been a lot of talk last week and this weekend about tags. Tags are something relatively new and I’m still getting my head around some application ideas. Problogger has posted Technorati Tags for Dummies while Micro Persuasion has posted Get Folksy with Folksonomies (which is another term for tags). I found these two to be among the better postings on it.

In short, a tag is like a category you can assign to a series of photos, blog posts, and other files. When you go to a service like Technorati or Flickr, you can do a search to find all entries with that tag. It seems to me sort of like a poor man’s wiki in a way.

Can this be used effectively for ministry? What if several people started tagging evangelistic or ministry articles (appropriately — don’t spam) in current event tags? Or what if there were several tagged articles that spoke to a certain theological viewpoint (example: predestination) so that others could read viewpoints on it all?

Maybe I’m missing some applications for it and I wonder how this would work out. It just seems to me that it’s like if you use categories in your blog for each post (which I plan to do eventually) and others do the same, one could search out all the posts on this blog and others that are in the same category, or tag.

That could certainly become quite powerful.