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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. That can make it difficult to navigate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. He provides an example from del.icio.us It is the large number of people contributing that leads to opportunities to discern contextual information when the tags are aggregated (Owen et al., keyword to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

What the Hashtag is a simple tool for aggregating tweets into a transcript and some simple stats, but after experiencing Marc Meyerand Jason Breed ’s Hashtag Social Media Chat and their tool that aggregates tweets, I need to do some re-thinking. What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ?

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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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things. Tagging is useful. But is it fun?

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