Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. To translate into your time zone, use the World Time Clock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

This morning Peggy Duvette and Angus Parker from WiserEarth spent some time at the Foundation sharing their experiences in building successful online communities of action and networks of networks on the WiserEarth online platform. You'll also find a detailed taxonomy of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). What does social design look like in these new communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

" There is a section about tagging. Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. I'm very interested in the how communities form, the behaviors, the ecosystem of the community as well as the practical how tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And, many of our community members were just learning too. . And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful. I also think about what I'm not going to cover due to time constraints and communicate that upfront.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. First, some background on tagging. Tagging is a term that refers to people assigning keywords (“tags”) to things. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Let look at the tagging standards for the project. So, rather than once tag to capture everything, we have some differentiation here. It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. How were the tagging standards developed? Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? I tweeted this and Vladis Krebs had a great answer : The network is the "structure" upon which the community dances and self-organizes. I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The closest competitor is Alfresco; my read was that, while Alfresco looks like a good product, KnowledgeTree is more committed to the open source community and ideals, has better documentation; active development and they're easy to reach. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

The "taxonomy of archetypes" both allows museums to be judged fairly and appropriately, and allows institutions to grow in their unique abilities, rather than by cobbling together a bit of this and a bit of that, becoming wayward and watered-down. Tags: Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

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. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Volume: Line graphs, Ranking, Hashtags Sentiment: Language parsing (tag clouds) Keyword association: Topics Where are they saying it? Tags: socialmediametrics twitter. A disclaimer. Geomaps When are they saying it? I'd love some nonprofit examples. What tools are you using?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn !

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