Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As one respondent wrote, [the site] "does not reflect the fun, caring, social personality of NTEN and the NTEN community. Good Website Examples Suggested by Respondents: New York Public Library uses an appealing block layout Tu.org ''s personalized user experience on their homepage. Like NTEN, they serve multiple audiences (e.g.

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NTEN Survey Results Websites 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

) asks: "Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working (scaling) to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? " Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can your theory of change be hard coded into what your social benefit organization builds? 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. Where is your community online? We can hack how we interact. What's awesome?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. Second, Tagging also allows social groups to form around similarities of interests and points of view. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? but maybe to me it's ???ghost ghost story??? and to a literature professor it's ???pop

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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. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

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. WiserEarth is more than a "green" online social network for individuals, although you join as an individual. I wanted to share with you some of what I learned today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The tagging is done in a social environment (shared and open to others). Although folksonomy tagging is done in a social environment (shared and open) Vander Wal emphasises that it is not collaborative and it is not a form of categorisation. He provides an example from del.icio.us keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Museum Tag Folksonomy Technorati 50

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). with the issue. The setup is always the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. The translator is in a booth.

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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. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. " Web 2.0, Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

For example, "I???m "Anyone who donates to Harvard is an alumni or social climber." " He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. m a trustee of a small family foundation, not by family, thank god.??? Eventually he reconciled with Zeus.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

Her most recent post is a longish review of social media - blogging, podcasting, and videoblogging - vlogging, to the initiated - and what their implications are for non-profit managers. And here's the other blog I drew in this month's blog exchange. I struggle to internalize this advice when touting our wares.

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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. Sites/Blogs about blogging as an instructional tool: Weblogs in the Classroom provides links to articles, tools and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

There is huge excitement around the social aspect of del.icio.us 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? For example, you as an individual find a page you want to remember. Schachter didn???t

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. It ain’t Risk, but the addition of the social question (do we think alike?) the name of this site is X or the name of this artifact is Y), you can search based on the terms that users identify with the item.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

The "taxonomy of archetypes" both allows museums to be judged fairly and appropriately, and allows institutions to grow in their unique abilities, rather than by cobbling together a bit of this and a bit of that, becoming wayward and watered-down. There's enormous pressure on museums to pursue models that are economically and socially viable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Obviously, I support all three of these blogging strategies and I think that together they represent a resurgence of a community based form of organizing, whether in support of social service or social change. There were periods during my Social Ecology years like that. The people who are paying attention are the techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He's an example of one of my loose ties strengthened through online social networks. It's also an example of how online social networks can connect you to people in your professional area who may not have met and open the door to valuable informal learning. Alistair suggested a taxonomy. A disclaimer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. Social Bookmarking. Act 1: The Problem.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. He used a hypothetical microcredit example to demonstrate: xx% of folks who were offered a microloan reported xx% increase in income the following year.

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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 article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. For example, an award of $2.3 According to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) , there are 900 foundations serving community colleges. .

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