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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, I think that a lot of Web 2.0, Some of Web 2.0,

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. either as a category of stuff or as a retrieval tool."

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. s a folksonomy. 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. Introduction. t get bogged down ???

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

tools – since in many ways, the most important aspects of Web 2.0 First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0, So, what’s on tap?

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