Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. We'll be discussing this online leading up to a conference call Thursday, March 1 at 20:00 GMT. Here's a list of questions we're discussing online now: How does the community evolve along with the tag and how to nurture it? Want to join in the fun?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

If you did not attend and are curious what funders are learning, you still have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions discussed right here on this blog. Beth Kanter has blogged about the topic for years. The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. that touches on the subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. link] [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on. If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. How do you create a tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. How are they different from taxonomies? The NpTech tag early discussions can be found here: [link]. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link].

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. functionality. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag. January 12, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I'm slowly inching back into a routine which includes blogging. As part of my research at the Packard Foundation, I've had the opportunity to attend a lot of briefings and discussions related to social media and network effectiveness. I'm slowly inching back into a routine which includes blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. I remember where or when or if I blogged about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. Participants were asked to set up blogs as their workshop notebooks. Many of the participants lived blogged the sessions and the notes created are good content for the wiki. Setting up a blog.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

The first two links today are motivated through my participation in Emily's Non Profit Blog Exchange. For this round I've drawn two blogs - one new to me and one I commented on just last week. Random Thoughts on Life and Work I'd never run into this blog before - this is why the blog exchange is so useful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. A two-way connection is someone you follow on Twitter and follows you back. (BTW,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful. My job was the network weaver. And, many of our community members were just learning too. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I developed a Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning- -a new conceptual framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes. Tell me a little bit about your blogs. I came up with a 4-step framework for the blog: 1. Evaluate it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). The first ten minutes were a discussion between Weinberger and Schachter and then the remaining 70 minutes was wide ranging discussion and q/a: Weinberger : ???There For example, taxonomy. The room was packed and it wasn???t t because of the free pizza.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. At level five, the visitors start discussing the issue together. The game could instruct people to share voting stations and to use a brief discussion to come to a consensus vote.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn ! The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. She has also written quite a bit about tagging over at her blog. links on your blog. Step 1: Discuss Tagging Policy. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s

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