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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some Reflections. 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. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Hashtag Stats.

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Kicking off SOCAP16 at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Connection Cafe

This taxonomy will enable us to aggregate data and provide benchmarking services for the purpose of supporting corporations, foundations, and NPOs to connect over shared interests. Currently, we are building a solution to enable people to use uniform measurement for social change.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. still thinking outloud.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. Write a blog post reflecting on these questions and tag it with NpTech and we will summarize the key points.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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