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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bill Gates wrote about it in his annual letter earlier this year, when he said he was “thinking a lot harder about how we can use the web to make it easier for givers of all sizes to connect to causes and see the results of their giving.” Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen has written an excellent book Giving 2.0 It is an exciting time.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. What would happen when more people are participating in the read write web? I'd love to rope in @kanter , but i have this silly notion that she's too busy.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. The learning objectives were: make decisions about how to effectively integrate social media into organization's overall web communications plan. How do we avoid “shiny object” syndrome?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some. Muslim relations.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I arrived early so I could get a good seat, which paid off because I was close enough to Schachter that I video taped his elevator speech and got a business card , too! m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. re the poster child for Web 2.0 For example, taxonomy.

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