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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Taxonomy Folksonomy Cook Ebook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: dowjones folksonomy ). That's the powerpoint version - hard to read, so download the PDF - it's more than just eye candy. Here's an interview with her on Read/Write Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" 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. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. ” What is Human Centered Design? These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

What immediately came to mind was Bloom’s Taxonomy that classified different intellectual behavior related to how children learn. Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.

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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. How are they different from taxonomies? The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. But is it fixed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

My dissertation, "Taxonomy of Collaborative E-learning," was based on a qualitative study conducted entirely online. While the Taxonomy I developed is focused on e-learning for the purpose of the dissertation, it will lend itself to planning other kinds of collaborative processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Quietly, a lot of groups are doing this important work – but I am beginning to feel they may require even greater attention. During her talk at GEO, Fulton made an interesting observation about this era.

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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'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? And, by looking over the public field of tags, we can see which tags are most frequently used and how they relate. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? may be equivalent to the tag ???novel???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships. She gives us some suggestions for tools. Most importantly is understanding what your engagement index is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us and Tehcnorati to designate technical resources that may be useful to nonprofits. nptech was chosen so that it made sense, and because it was short -- short and intuitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? How does one "facilitate" a community tagging project, if that can be done at all? What do we see happening beforehand or afterwards?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. 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.

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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. The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. Experts in taxomony find great urls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

This can then potentially lead to finding another person who has similar interests or shares a similar vocabulary, and this is one of Vander Wal's key points concerning what he considers to be the value of folksonomy over taxonomy: that groups of people with a similar vocabulary can function as a kind of 'human filter' for each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. When formulating learning objectives, this is typically done in consultation with your workshop host.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 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. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Laura Norvig manages the lending library, website taxonomy, and social media presence for the Resouce Center of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Friendfeed nptech room topic of the month: Have you ever considered using, or are you using, Friendfeed as a tool for your nonprofit organization, internally or externally?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy Museums could learn from these developments, and use folksonomic classification both to improve access to on-line collections and to provide the foundation for community-based services that reinforce the role of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. So, my lens is focused how does one translate lessons learned from edtech sector to nptech sector? Let look at the tagging standards for the project. So, rather than once tag to capture everything, we have some differentiation here. Who had input?

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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. First, there is the Directory - the largest international directory of non-profits and socially responsible organizations - approximately 110,000 from 243 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. (I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted). There's not even a description of what the blogs do. There are many such lists on del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. 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

AUGUST 27, 2010

What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? How did that relate to the learning objectives? Were there conversations taking place between Twitter users that extended the learning or were people mostly parallel online note taking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

" He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. As we know, Prometheus was chained to a mountain. So be careful what good deeds you do. Eventually he reconciled with Zeus. So philanthropy is an education about human development."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. View more Microsoft Word documents from David Armano. Also, I wonder how you can integrate some of the thinking for externals communications? The tools. So, I'm roughly dividing these into two categories: Low-Tech and High-Tech. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1. There is also a great collection of tool tips and resources for when I get better at all this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion. User generated content - Web 2.0 means involving the user - it's beyond the platform.

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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. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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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. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

For example, taxonomy. The goal isn???t t to classify, it???s s to remember.??? Weinberger said, ???The The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools. So, one thing led to another and we starting batting around some ideas , along with my very smart colleague, Rachel Weidinger. A disclaimer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. But the long term implications are a more network centric nonprofit sector, rather than the organization centric system we have now. It's pretty threatening on a lot of levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies. Read David Weinberger's reply (Berkman Fellow and author of an article called " Why Tagging Matters ") to the article here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ??? s a folksonomy. Also, people can add whatever additional tags they want so they can remember the item as well as a description.

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