Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

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). Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. social network and community sites.

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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. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I admit it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. tags: nonprofit nptech ). You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. is a social bookmarking tool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

In my communication workshops, I still find that nearly every nonprofit organization is rather afraid of the idea of blogging. Obviously, I support all three of these blogging strategies and I think that together they represent a resurgence of a community based form of organizing, whether in support of social service or social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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