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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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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

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. Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). Platform values are most obvious in the TOS (see Facebook's history.)

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Blackbaud Index for February 2011

sgEngage

Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting.

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Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems

NTEN

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone.