NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The Facilitator’s Guide To Human-Centered Design for Social Impact.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In time for the busy holiday season, VisionLink has released new Community Resource Directory searching tools. We have also moved the linguistically aware searching tools into the Taxonomy Search toolset. Search Results Sorting--we have also enhanced the choices authorized users have to control the view of search results.

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VisionLink

APRIL 15, 2010

Indeed, we received helpful comments from many communities and made several refinements to the final version, releasing next week. Each component can be used right away, and yet each also provides fundamentally new and advanced capacities which can drive, and be driven by, complex community and partnership issues and needs.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

We took our research along with decades of industry experience and created what we call a sector-sourced taxonomy of key performance indicators (measurements) built upon best practices from client funders, nonprofits and experts in the impact measurement field.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For years, we have been advising clients on how to build, manage, and grow successful online communities. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. In our experience, this often works better for cross-organizational communities. Stay tuned!

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 The Drupal community learned a lot from the upgrade experience between prior major versions and decided to change the way upgrades are handled, starting with Drupal 8.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Eventually, major versions reached “end of life” status, meaning they were no longer supported by the community and their codebases stopped being maintained.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Eventually, major versions reached “end of life” status, meaning they were no longer supported by the community and their codebases stopped being maintained.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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Web Taxonomy Philanthropy Bookmarking 123

Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. I had to become a part of this!

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Measure Taxonomy Blackbaud Language 36

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As nonprofits, what are our responsibilities to our communities? As humans, what are our responsibilities to our communities? Where is your community online? 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.

Community 47

Community Taxonomy Online Literacy 47

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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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

If critical functions like fundraising, advocacy, community building, membership management, marketing, and publicity are being fulfilled by your website, you will want to invest a proportional amount of time and money into keeping it humming along. Tip 1: Assess the importance of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data. There is an interest in a community filtering concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. social network and community sites. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project. From my view, this is what the web should help us do: become a global learning community. Maybe we'd need fewer bombs?) Tell me a little bit about your blogs.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Sector – sourcing a taxonomy (for both the funder and the nonprofit seeking funding communities) allows the sector to speak the same language – This taxonomy will be deployed as a part of the outcomes solution. It’s a win-win.

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Taxonomy Social Blackbaud Austin 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities. Flickr Photo by Mburpee.

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Internet API Taxonomy Conference 102

Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

Over the last five years, we have collected feedback from over 5,000 touchpoints within the philanthropic community to understand how organizations are measuring and reporting their outcomes. This helped us develop our Outcomes taxonomy , that will ultimately address the lack of data on philanthropic activities that Karolina noted.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the biggest issues we’ve faced for a long time is a complete lack of integration between our CRM and CMS, meaning it’s very difficult to direct our community towards the content they’re most interested in. We have a fantastic opportunity to leverage all the knowledge in our community and get lots of expert feedback along the way.

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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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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Also, take a look at what other associations are doing, what others within your community are focusing on, or even what industry partners are seeing as trends. Time box your long-term goals based on months, quarters or even years. Get specific so you can fill in the details with small, achievable steps.

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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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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. Here's a list of questions we're discussing online now: How does the community evolve along with the tag and how to nurture it?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? If the goal is for organizations to adopt these frameworks as their own, I think we need a lot more supporting material--and maybe fewer different taxonomies. What do you get out of the report?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. How will you tell your impact story?

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Measure Taxonomy Impact Language 20

Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The plan includes a proposal to allocate $109 billion for two years of free community college for all Americans, including Dreamers. . Community colleges are a critical access point to higher education in the United States. who completed a bachelor’s degree previously attended a community college. . has awarded over $3.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

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. " There is a section about tagging. keyword to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. Post 1 : Some initial musings on blog communities and facilitated learning. I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. of our connected conversations and resource finds.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Part 2 in a 2-part Davos report for the Social Good Community ( See Part 1 here ). And the social good community – across the entire social economy – has powerful potential to ensure that these changes benefit the world. Here are four big trends for the social good sector over the next few years that I saw playing out at Davos: 1.

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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). If not, why not?

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Technology Taxonomy Nptech Synchronous 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. NpTech Conference Call Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy " I'm fighting the temptation to want to create a digital bloggers quilt.

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Museum Tag Folksonomy Technorati 50

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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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object. Why are folksonomies useful?

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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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