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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Tags: twitter. Thanks Brian and Jesse for a terrifically useful map to the Twitterverse. .

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

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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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. .

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter. However, while checking my Twitter stream I realized that the Queen of Measurement, KD Paine , was at a conference a few blocks away in the lobby bar. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. Tags: metrics ROI twitter.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We can easily fall into the use of shorthand or brand names to describe it: it is “social media” or the internet or Twitter or Facebook. Quietly, a lot of groups are doing this important work – but I am beginning to feel they may require even greater attention.

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