Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

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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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. … Narratively, this makes sense. Back to my diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

There were a few more comments that I want to capture here: Kevin (don't know who he is, but we have very similar interests and I'm so glad that I found his blog via the NpTech tag - I don't think this tag is useless? " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! You can see screen shots of both of these in the slide show above. How do you create a tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

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. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

If you did not attend and are curious what funders are learning, you still have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions discussed right here on this blog. Beth Kanter has blogged about the topic for years. The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. that touches on the subject. .”

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JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. commenting on any item. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Like the blogosphere, it helps enormously if you actually comment on items. Users comment (often in relation to what is being said on a livestreaming audio event, or in reply to a question) and the comments show up in realtime, no refresh required, no relying on pesky Twitter search. Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree. Can you even design it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. 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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Update: See Ben's Comment over here. 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. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? Leave a comment in this post and I'll get you entry into the discussion and phone discussion. What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? What do we see happening beforehand or afterwards?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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. Many of the participants lived blogged the sessions and the notes created are good content for the wiki. Setting up a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert. The tools.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

The first two links today are motivated through my participation in Emily's Non Profit Blog Exchange. For this round I've drawn two blogs - one new to me and one I commented on just last week. Random Thoughts on Life and Work I'd never run into this blog before - this is why the blog exchange is so useful!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

According to the latest blog post on Causes.com , to date: “186 million registered users in 156 countries have raised over $48 million for nonprofits, collected 34 million signatures for grassroots advocacy campaigns and created hundreds of thousands of online groups around important social issues. Images: Rest in Peace: Shutterstock.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. At level four, the visitor has some awareness of how other distinct visitors respond to the issue and can access their comments and opinions.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It She has also written quite a bit about tagging over at her blog. links on your blog. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Marnie Webb???s s bookmarks are here.

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