Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2007

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Bookmarks: del.icio.us If there is a book I really really really want, I search for freebie chapters on the Web or use the search inside feature in Amazon. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! and magnolia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. Johannes).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

How to Use the New FriendFeed Search for Social Media Intelligence - ReadWriteWeb - Have you tried using FriendFeed? Well, they launched a new search tool today that could help you "discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Interesting to compare different styles and approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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). " How to Piss off an Online Community – 4 Recent Examples | Search Engine Journal – "People are resistant to change.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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). Tags: roundup bookmarks discussion facebook fundraising google gov2.0

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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 ). How do you create a tag? You can create a new tag every time you save something if you want to.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

Facebook readying live search featured - In the next step to rival Twitter, Facebook has announced on their blog today that they are "beginning to test new versions of Facebook Search with a small group — just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

" Twitter Search in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation - You may have seen some of my recent blog posts about Twitter-based chats, like #4Change and #NPCons and you might have also been really lost/confused about the # or how Twitter search was involved in the conversation. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Check out this great wrap up of the new applications and services launched by Grameen Foundation’s AppLab, developed in Uganda, using Google SMS Search and in partnership with MTN Uganda as the mobile operator. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Thanks, White African! " Join in!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

" Have Fun • Do Good: 6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job - Britt Bravo has a great run down on using social media tools in your job search - seems to be a topic on a lot of people's minds! Tags: roundup bookmarks. Congrats, Beth!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects. for Educators. Put it on the list to explore.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2013

I find them useful to bookmark, especially when you need to get your hands on an important article that has good data or strategic advice that you want to share with senior leadership to get their buy in. It's not bookmarking : You don't need an Internet connection to access the content at a later time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Marc Sirkin and I have been trading emails about his nonprofit's use of tags. Tagging can be used to develop a shared archive of resources for a pre-defined group of people (an organization's staff or community of practice. Using a unique tag, the members of the group can contribute articles and also easily find them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th: The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media | Changemakers - "Join We Media and Ashoka’s Changemakers in the search to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks in sync between multiple browsers: [link]. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. SpyBot Search & Destroy — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs. Tags: Software. Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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). The Collaboration Prize – Search Database – Wow! Check it out! Check out this great resource – a database of collaborations! "The

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. These are the tools that I used to get my Grandmother started: Google Search - So simple! Just make sure you explain the difference between a URL and a search term. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed? What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A hashtag is similar to other web tags: it is metadata that helps add tweets to a category. Hashtags have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag.: Just as you might tag a Web bookmark in a social bookmarking site such as the now defunct Xmarks.com and Del.icio.us traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

If you're on Facebook , search for the n2y2 group! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? The conference tag is n2y2. Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag ! Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 27, 2009

That’s done, although I know it will take some time until searches return results at the new domain. Tags: Geek Posts Personal Posts domains identity. Google Webmaster tools has a nice “change of address&# feature that let’s you tell it that you’ve moved your site. Anyone know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

He also pointed me recently to a tool called CoReap ( www.coreap.com ), a social search and bookmarking add-on for your web browser. If you bookmark web sites and web pages on a regular basis, or do team research on the web, then CoReap is just the tool for you! and then of course getting enough colleagues to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

WhosTalkin is a new social media search tool that makes it easy to search multiple social media sources. It has a clean interface where you quickly search, scan, and click through blogs, micro media, news, forums, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and other sources that are talking about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Tagging helps memory and helps keep found resources found. It's double work -- if I read a friend's tweet or if I ask a question and get a response, I bookmark the tweet url into del.icio.us and tag it. Many times I forget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

Knowledge and learning – For users interested in research, information, bookmarking, and more search and browse-related activities, provide ways to share discoveries. Asking and answering – In a world of search, there are still many occasions when users want to ask questions and get personal answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. Technorati.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Write titles with phrases that people are searching for (i.e. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services. Tags your post with Technorati tags. How to Bake a Cake).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I attended the " Tag You Are It " session at NTC by Ami Dar and Katrin Verclas and was exposed to a lot of new technology tools. I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. Technorati Tag: nptech

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. Technorati tags: 09ntc , nptech. Tags: Events Strategy. They actively engaged the site?s s community using Twitter. Finally, she submitted the site?s

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