Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. There were a few more comments that I want to capture here: Kevin (don't know who he is, but we have very similar interests and I'm so glad that I found his blog via the NpTech tag - I don't think this tag is useless? I'm being quite serious here. Can you point me to a working model."

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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. social network and community sites. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users.

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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. both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. but maybe to me it's ???ghost

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. Tagging from the point of view of taggers. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The idea was to tell people to tag with nptech everything that is relevant and then look to see what was being tagged to see how the tags were being used.

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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. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway? How are they different from taxonomies? Do you have an opinion?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. What can you learn? «

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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. What are the technical and social pre-requisites for a tagging project? (a

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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. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Not unlike where you start for a communications or social media strategy, eh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? 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? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? read_later,???

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. The social capital market is the arena that allows investors to "do well by doing good."

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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. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. tagging capabilities to keep things organized.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

It’s called Tag this Image! Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Tagging is useful. Separately at your own computers, you tag images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). What does social design look like in these new communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

" There is a section about tagging. Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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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. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. First, some background on tagging. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Social Networking. tools being deployed including Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many others) We will students researching and experiencing social web enabled learning unfold on the wiki. Let look at the tagging standards for the project. How were the tagging standards developed?

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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

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. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. or more like web 1.0?)

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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. Niche content. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. c-some sort of social rating system against whatever critical identified in point a - to do it right would take some programming skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. is a social bookmarking tool. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.

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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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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). And I don’t think I was alone in that feeling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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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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