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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? 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. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

You look at this picture. Now, write down the words that you associate with the picture. 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. Let’s play a game.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. Our research aims to show the big picture of funding within the human rights field. Without race and ethnicity, this picture is incomplete.

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