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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. 4 admin 08.05.09

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? at 9:31 am Glad you are blogging about this topic again! I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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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. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? Want to join in the fun?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Source: Powerhouse Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues. " I've been watching her linkblog (that little side bar of her deliciou finds) and decided to add on to my blog. " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

You have to be rather anal or committed or a folksonomy addict or ??? I am convinced it is from a relatively small number of individuals (but bless them for being tag-nostic). m not comparing the tagging rate per conference, but realizing that??? very few people tag. I am not convinced that tagging is anywhere close to a tipping point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated. Schachter also gave a luncheon presentation and you can read Deborah Finn's. The room was packed and it wasn???t groupies, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

I wondered whether there was a Dummie's Guide available on someone's blog or if so, how the hell I would ever find it. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. " Main reason is if the tag are going to be useful to YOU - the tag should express your way of thinking not the majority. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

If you've been reading this blog from the beginning, this post may look like deja vu. Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. Suppose you bookmark my blog and tag it nonprofitsoftware. This sort of internet searching is becoming more and more common: Just an hour ago I got an email from someone who found my blog by looking for nptech tags in delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn ! The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Today, the Wild Apricot blog continued the discussion about " Should Digg Have A Nonprofit Category? re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

She has also written quite a bit about tagging over at her blog. links on your blog. s a folksonomy. If you want to publish on your blog or web site, it is a two step process. At the end, feedburner spits out some javascript code that you cut and paste into your web page or blog. Marnie Webb???s Look in the ???settings???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Most of the time this blog focuses on individual aspects of 2.0 Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. While this trend might be acceptable (though annoying) when the blogs are personal, it's unprofessional--and unacceptable--when the blogs are institutional. thinking or applications. Pod or Vodcast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Part I September 9, 2006 I liked doing the Intellectual Property series in the earlier incarnation of this blog. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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