Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy.

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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. 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 7 Amit Ahuja 05.25.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

That's the term she gave JOTS in her response after reading my response to her answer to my initial question in the comments of this post. She gives a quick review to JOTS and says that any new entries in the social bookmarking arena or YASBoS need to offer something fastly superior to del.icio.us other than a "pretty face.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

I got dissapproving comments by half a dozen readers - typical was a comment from Mike at Mind Valley who says: I am surprised that you doubt the business value of tagging and social bookmarking. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. Suppose you bookmark my blog and tag it nonprofitsoftware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 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. Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?) Live Blogging Conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It This article will give you a more detailed description of the benefits: Tagging Gives Web Human Meaning. s a folksonomy. There is a write-up of the project here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. It can mean using visitor content and comments to adapt and grow the core museum content. What advice would you give? Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites. It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.” Can you grin and bear it?

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