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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

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Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

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Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change.

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

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Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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NpTech Tag Discussion: Analysis of Tags Used With NpTech - Thank you Chris!

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" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. taxonomies.??? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

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I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. 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.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

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Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations.

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