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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

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All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy.

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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

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Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Gavin emailed the note below and mentioned he will be summarizing all this on his blog. No surprise. It's kind of fun!

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Does Your Nonprofit Have A Social Media Work Flow?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? ” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? Image from Steve Heye. Does your organization have a social media work flow?

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. Participants were asked to set up blogs as their workshop notebooks. This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections. Setting up a blog.

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

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The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. 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.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

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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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