Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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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 1, 2006

and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 Some of Web 2.0,

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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. I think some nonprofits should read it. It’s funny, and appropriate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2. since I use it as a teaching tool.)

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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. The holy grail for me (someone who works with nonprofits) would be a well designed interface for del.icio.us. needs more nonprofit substance. other than a "pretty face.

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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. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? functionality.

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