Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 19, 2012
The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.”
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 6, 2007
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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 29, 2009
The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". The tools. Low-Tech Approaches.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 30, 2007
“Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. We don’t pay attention to them, and yet, they account for a high percentage of our web traffic. With good reason.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 20, 2005
I think of the origin of Nonprofit Online News as one of those sweet Internet accidents, something that always reminds me that networks are infrastructures of natural abundance. During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles.
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