Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

Lots of users find NTEN content to be of high-quality, but it needs to be presented in a design that’s easier to digest and more attractive as a place to return to more often. More visual content would make the site much more useable, appealing, and easy-to-read. In general, people were able to conduct transactions (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels. The content doesn’t only include “finished&# reports, but also works in progress like the the Goldmine Research project. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the biggest issues we’ve faced for a long time is a complete lack of integration between our CRM and CMS, meaning it’s very difficult to direct our community towards the content they’re most interested in. The content committee will facilitate a card-sorting exercise at our upcoming all-staff retreat.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

see what is most useful and compelling content for you. Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read. What tips do you have for organizing this content?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

.&# Even if you don’t read the post that comes in your RSS Reader, that content isn’t lost and the knowledge is still at your footsteps. You can search within your reader and find content that came through that you might be looking for, even if you didn’t read it the first time. How do you create a tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. Do we need more user generated content? I do think that there are some discoverable values that are hard coded into any online platform. I know them not-well-enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

Fabulous: Tagging allows you to categorize information without being forced to use a pre-determined vocabulary and allows other to easily contribute content. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. Tagging from the point of view of taggers. Experts in taxomony find great urls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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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. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Each piece of content is typically associated with a single page. and community functionality, including user-submitted content.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. And we are developing new content, such as our Global Solidarity Series , with peers. Tracking race and ethnicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? t describe the content. For example, taxonomy. There is huge excitement around the social aspect of del.icio.us Schachter didn???t read_later,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. So I developed some information consumption tools and habits that would scale well with the rapidly increasing volume of new material coming my way everyday. How did you get started?

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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. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). What did people like so much about the voting?

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Set up everyone with a bookmarklet tool and show them how to use it. The most difficult part will be to switch from your habit of using the browser favorites list to the bookmarklet tool. Tool Collection.

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