Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. There were a few more comments that I want to capture here: Kevin (don't know who he is, but we have very similar interests and I'm so glad that I found his blog via the NpTech tag - I don't think this tag is useless? full report here ) An analysis on the blog is forthcoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Update: See Ben's Comment over here. 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. NpTech Conference Call Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 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. socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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