Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Owyang’s post points to some terrific examples including a diagram from Socialfish helped facilitate for ASCE and the class diagram from the Airforce. Image from Steve Heye. ” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? How did you develop it?

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The quoted search tools operate alongside the linguistically aware tools, stripping out, for example, plurals from the search terms. We have also moved the linguistically aware searching tools into the Taxonomy Search toolset. These include the ability to sort results by frequency and rank. See the documentation for details.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. For example, the University of Kentucky publishes this skills checklist with a list of basic computer skills you could adapt to your context.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. First, some background on tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

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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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. beginning, intermediate, advanced users).

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Some Examples of Who Gets What Grants. In our survey, we ask that participants identify their missions based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system. Finally, look at the sizes of the median largest awards. Annual Budget. Let's look at some of the variations by the size of the annual organizational budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. You can see screen shots of both of these in the slide show above. How do you create a tag? You can create a new tag every time you save something if you want to.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point. Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? What do you get out of the report?

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Here are a few example questions to consider asking: What systems do you use today, and what would we like to have in the long term? Tech & Infrastructure Ask all of your departments about the platforms and processes they currently use to collect data and whether or not the current infrastructure is set up to meet their needs.

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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. Some checklists of stuff to think about, and examples of people who are already doing it well. Platform values are most obvious in the TOS (see Facebook's history.)

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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. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? He gives an example: Flickr is about cluster photographs by subject with impressive accuracy just by analyzing their tags, so that photos of Gerald Ford are separated from photos of Ford Motor cars.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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. Some are small, private, and contained, based on specific job roles. Further reading: http :// www.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

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. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Tagging from the point of view of taggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

He provides an example from del.icio.us keyword to use. Vander Wal states that the value of a folksonomy is derived from three key data elements: the person tagging, the object being tagged (as an entity), and the tag being attached to that object. From these three data elements you only need two in order to find the third.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

You'll also find a detailed taxonomy of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration. For example, The Nature Conservancy is part of a group called the US Fire Learning Network group. An example of "semi-private" group, is the Permaculture Alliance of California.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. A connection between people is called link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Gave Daily Kos, Little Green Footballs, Huffington Post, and Tech Crunch as examples of blogs with ecosystems. For example, Daily Kos created a wiki. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ). What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? How did that relate to the learning objectives? Were people not in the room engaged in any of the conversation beyond retweeting?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

The potential customer does not want to hear for example that you have a " communications log where each contact with a constituent can be tagged with concepts from a user-defined taxonomy ". I struggle to internalize this advice when touting our wares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

For example, "I???m " He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. His sense of humor was very subtle. Some of his quips made me do a double-take because you wouldn't expect such subversive things to be uttered from someone who looked so distinguished.

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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

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. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Refining Prompt Examples Clarifying Voice of Audience Please provide more context about the previous reply – what was the intended audience, goal, and circumstances? if AI has internet access) Providing Examples Identify places where specific examples or anecdotes would make the ideas more concrete and relatable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

For example, you as an individual find a page you want to remember. For example, taxonomy. Reilly now has a link that lets people bookmark an article into delicious ( see here for example ). For example, we get 15 million hits a day and only 1 million were hits from Technorati. Schachter didn???t read_later,???

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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. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance.

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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. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things.

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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. But no one becomes best at one thing by messing with all things.

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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. This post provides a tangible example for the why behind that argument. A one-minute video clip presents the issue (for example, whether students should be allowed to wear headscarves to school).

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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. I'd love some nonprofit examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

There are lots of examples out there, but I like the specific question that you raise about writing discipline and blogging. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. (BK: No, I'm not working on book, but thinking about it). Blogs can be a great journaling tool.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

This makes the system more straightforward to understand, but can be cumbersome to update and limits very advanced structures (like structuring a site around a multifaceted taxonomy).

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