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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. The content doesn’t only include “finished&# reports, but also works in progress like the the Goldmine Research project. You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. .

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

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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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's an example of "social search" in action. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. taxonomies.???

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. 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. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. or more like web 1.0?)

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

“Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. With good reason. The games on the website at my museum are old.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. For example, I???ve