Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? There were other questions and some good conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 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. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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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. of our connected conversations and resource finds. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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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

JUNE 20, 2005

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. The online conversations that are starting around those issues are very exciting. It feeds into a variety of publications that I offer, some for free and some for sale. It hones my thinking.

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