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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) to Ma.gnolia.

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!)

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. How are they different from taxonomies? Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Yahoo Javascript Libraries go OpenSource

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. In addition, calendar and treeview components are provided.

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Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For example, Yahoo bought del.icio.us – it didn’t have social bookmarking. If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform.