10 Things You Can Do With Jiglu Tags - #6. Add a tag

With Jiglu you don't just have to use the tags that the system automatically suggests. You can also add your own manual tags as well - perhaps when you want a tag to be there but there isn't enough content yet to have it automatically appear.

Log on to Jiglu, select the Tags tab at the top of your personal home page and then choose the 'Add a new tag' link on the sidebar. Enter its name in the form and hit the Save button and it'll be added. Even better, Jiglu will go through all your past content and link it to that tag when it appears and without having to reindex it all.

When you add a tag - or if you edit an existing tag by clicking the Edit button next to its name on the Tags index - you can also give it alternative names that it's known by. For example, you might want to give BBC an alternative name of the British Broadcasting Corporation. For automatic tags the system will try and add alternatives itself for some of the common word endings and plurals.

You can also associate tags with other tags when they have a connection. For example, you might want to associate a BBC tag to BBC News or BBC Radio. Under the covers, Jiglu's tags are built with an implementation of a standard called Topic Maps. At the moment we hide a lot of the topic map features but as we do more work on the admin interface over the next few months we hope to make more of them available as topic maps are an extremely powerful way to manage tags and taxonomies.