Categories coming to HubPages -- Need Your Input
92- larryfreeman
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In the coming months, we will be adding categories to HubPages. In conjunction with the current tagging, this will make it easier to find related hubs.
Before we launch this new feature, we wanted to get your feedback. Getting categories right is difficult and the best way to get there is with your help.
Below is the top-level categories that we are planning to use. I will add links as they are available for review:
* Arts & Crafts
* Automotive
* Books & Writing
* Business & Jobs
* Entertainment
* Fashion & Beauty
* Food
* Games, Toys & Hobbies
* Gender & Relationships
* Health
* Holidays & Special Occasions
* HubPages
* Home & Family
* Knowledge & Education
* Personal Finance
* Pets & Animals
* Politics & Social Issues
* Religion & Beliefs
* Sports & Recreation
* Technology
* Travel & Places
In the coming weeks, we will be presenting each of these top level categories in further detail. Have any questions about these categories or feel that there's a high level category that we missed, please let us know.
I have written a blog post explaining the rationale if you are interested.
Thanks,
-Larry
93- ProCW
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larryfreeman wrote:
In the coming months, we will be adding categories to HubPages. In conjunction with the current tagging, this will make it easier to find related hubs.
Before we launch this new feature, we wanted to get your feedback. Getting categories right is difficult and the best way to get there is with your help.
Below is the top-level categories that we are planning to use.
* Art & Writing
* Automotive
* Birthdays & Holidays
* Business & Jobs
* Entertainment
* Fashion
* Food
* Games, Toys, & Hobbies
* Gender & Relationships
* Health & Beauty
* Home & Family
* Personal Finance
* Pets & Animals
* Politics & Social Issues
* Religion & Beliefs
* Science & Education
* Sports & Recreation
* Technology
* Travel & Places
In the coming weeks, we will be presenting each of these top level categories in further detail. Have any questions about these categories or feel that there's a high level category that we missed, please let us know.
I have written a blog post explaining the rationale if you are interested.
Thanks,
-LarrySounds great, Larry!
The only thing that I can think of that'd be a great help is: sub level categories within each top level category...
BUT THEN AGAIN... i just read the blog post... 3-levels deep! cool!
ProCW
Oh, and "Art & Writing" possibly "Arts & Writing" ...
92- jimmythejock
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Hi Larry I am looking forward to seeing the new development, great Idea; you could also add a humor category as alot of hubs are written with the intention of having a laugh and a joke, take care.....jimmy
98- Zsuzsy Bee
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Yes definitely Humor like Jimmy said. And Crafts, I bet quite a few people would be looking there for handy work which sometimes is or isn't included under the arts umbrella. Great idea once again Hubteam. regards Zsuzsy
94- AEvans
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This is an exciting development, may I also recommend a Poetry category as their are quite a few poets on HubPages!!
92- Lady Guinevere
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How about Spirituality--non religious.
91- Denny Lyon
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AEvans wrote:
This is an exciting development, may I also recommend a Poetry category as their are quite a few poets on HubPages!!
Hear! Hear! on the poetry category!
spiritual as in non-caustic non-religious would be great too.
thanks, d
97- Marisa Wright
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How about Performing Arts? Dance, opera and theatre don't belong under "Art", and the "Entertainment" category tends to get overwhelmed with celebrity stuff rather than serious performing arts.
Poetry would be a subcategory of Art & Writing and spirituality would fall under Religion & Beliefs. (We added "& Beliefs" to the name for this very reason.)
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- Lady Guinevere
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Fawntia wrote:
Poetry would be a subcategory of Art & Writing and spirituality would fall under Religion & Beliefs. (We added "& Beliefs" to the name for this very reason.)
Color Therapy is not a religion or belief so it would fit more into a non religous spiritual category. Same goes for things like Chakras, Kundalini and the like.
Marisa Wright wrote:
How about Performing Arts? Dance, opera and theatre don't belong under "Art", and the "Entertainment" category tends to get overwhelmed with celebrity stuff rather than serious performing arts.
We were planning to make Performing Arts a subcategory of Art & Writing, but you might have a point. We could rename the category "Arts & Writing" as ProCW suggested.
We were also planning to have crafts be a subcategory of Art(s) & Writing.
Humor would fall under Entertainment, I believe.
Color therapy might fit under alternative medicine within the Health & Beauty category ...
97- Jerilee Wei
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Would you have a category for everything else that doesn't fit a specific category? I found it difficult fitting some of my articles in Helium for example, simply because I wasn't sure about categories.
99- relache
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Jerilee Wei wrote:
Would you have a category for everything else that doesn't fit a specific category?
To make an "everything else" category is to make an organizational snarl.
94- Misha
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I think Law is missing
87- pauldeeds
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relache wrote:
Jerilee Wei wrote:
Would you have a category for everything else that doesn't fit a specific category?
To make an "everything else" category is to make an organizational snarl.
If something is truly missing, we'll add it. But if your dilemma is simply which of two places it should go, you're just going to have to pick one.
90- gamergirl
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LG, there are a few places that Chakras, kundalini, Reiki and such topics would fit, but would likely be best placed under Health, as they're subjects within the realm of alternative medicine like Fawntia said. Color therapy is, by definition, a form of alternative medicine, so putting it and topics like it under that heading would work well.
I like the category idea, Larry, Fawntia. I think, too, that this list looks great as far as top-tier categories go.
Hooray!
93- Rochelle Frank
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Jerilee Wei wrote:
Would you have a category for everything else that doesn't fit a specific category? I found it difficult fitting some of my articles in Helium for example, simply because I wasn't sure about categories.
You are right. In my own categories I have an "Odds' Ends" category.
And -- like others-- I think "humor/satire/silliness" could be a separate category. Entertainment seems like movies, music etc.
Thanks for the new features. Makes all of us look better!
95- SweetiePie
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Zsuzsy Bee wrote:
Yes definitely Humor like Jimmy said. And Crafts, I bet quite a few people would be looking there for handy work which sometimes is or isn't included under the arts umbrella. Great idea once again Hubteam. regards Zsuzsy
I agree on the crafts big time
. Many of us crafters would love this category .
89- Bruce Elkin
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I strongly suggest an "environment" category. ANd/or a sustainablity category. These are the hot topics of the coming year's decades. And hey, everything else on the list depends on what we do or don't do to our environment. Cheers!
85- The Party Fairy
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May I suggest an Event Planning category?
I see that you have plans for a Birthdays and Holidays category. Many event planning articles would of course fall into this category -- but hubs about reunions, christenings, anniversaries, graduation ceremonies, weddings and more would not fit so easily into this category. Broadening the category to call it Event Planning -- or perhaps just Events -- might work a bit better.
In addition, some writers may prefer to use the Birthdays and Holidays category to write about origins, traditions, alternatives, etc, rather than offering standard event planning tips. Calling the category Events might work better for this purpose.
There is a great deal of public interest in event planning, and people are becoming increasingly likely to search online for advice when planning any sort of party or celebration. Sites geared toward answering event planning questions receive tons of traffic. Many hubbers are already contributing hubs with event planning advice, so this may be a category worth considering.
By the way, I think adding categories is a great idea -- but I can certainly appreciate that it will be a daunting task, much trickier than most of us can imagine. Thank you for tackling it -- and good luck!
