Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means.

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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

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. A brilliant reflection, if only presenting one point of view, but still worth reading! What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. still thinking outloud. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? I found that idea exciting!

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. Social Bookmarking.

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