I know I’ve blogged about this before, but a little helpful reminder might be in order the weekend before the conference. No matter if you’re blogging, twittering, posting pictures, or just bookmarking resources on your favorite social bookmarking site, the use of tags is something that will help organize information across the entire Internet.

Think of tags as the individual categories atop the filing folders in your cabinet. You can assign photos, blog posts, forum discussions, and even bookmarks you keep online with mutliple tags. For instance, if you look at the top of this post you’ll see it’s been tagged with the words “macul09, tags, and flickr”. Powerful search engines scour the internet for these tag words, and then use that information to organize search results for other people. So that means when you use the tag “macul09″, everytime somebody searched for the word macul or macul09, they see all of the great photos, bookmarks, and content that people hav marked with that tag word.

It only takes a moment, and it a HUGE help to people that either can’t attend the conference, but still want to follow all of the postings and information. It also helps anyone find useful photos on Flickr, posts in Twitter, or other popular social sites to find information from this year’s conference. Tagging with the word “macul09″ is a ncie way to help yourself and others in an uber-coll web2.0 way

Happy tagging!