Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

The tool is designed for funders, nonprofits, mission-driven media makers, journalists and philanthropic researchers to analyze funding and investment in the field. You can search and visualize media funding by the following: Show Grants By : Explore data for funders (blue) or recipients (orange).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As several users pointed out, keeping a clean, simple design should be key consideration in redesign so as not to detract from NTEN’s offerings. with no problems, but it is a confusing, non-seamless transaction experience, both in terms of design interface and glitches in data sync between different systems.

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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. It is designed for sharing with small groups — like colleagues, college roommates or hiking friends — instead of with all of a user’s friends or the entire Web. It also offers group text messaging and video chat."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object. Ideas design. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Furthermore, across our multiple online platforms and websites, there’s little to no design consistency, and the transitions between the sites are clunky at best. Finally, and perhaps most glaringly, none of our sites have a real responsive design, making them difficult or impossible to access on a mobile device. Design triumph?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Some are calling it impact investing.

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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. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new home page design and enhanced search functionality. We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

Your content strategy should be used to inform content creation and migration planning, wireframing, and placement of content in the design and development stages. The purpose of a content strategy is to map out the goals for your website and the content that will help achieve the messaging for each section.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable. Google Reader is designed to organize your feeds and let you share them with your contacts/the world - without having boxes and widgets. What’s the difference between Netvibes and Google Reader?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. When I design a training, whether a one-hour webinar or an all-day face-to-face workshop, I don't begin with the technology integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

and Tehcnorati to designate technical resources that may be useful to nonprofits. It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. Here's the description (notes here ?) The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

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? What next steps do you think we need to make it as useful as possible--and how can we, as active participants--take the lead?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

You'll also find a detailed taxonomy of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration. It's designed for networks of networks and communities of action, whether the network or community consists of people or organizations. There is also an Open API so this information can be repurposed on other areas of the web.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. understand how to design and implement a social media experiment that enables listening, participation, content creation, or community building and is appropriate and realistic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. I would have my students look at web sites based on design criteria and discuss the web sites. (I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted).

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

He'd like us to be aware that there is more to designing an accessible site than using all the right technologies. The potential customer does not want to hear for example that you have a " communications log where each contact with a constituent can be tagged with concepts from a user-defined taxonomy ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I developed a Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning- -a new conceptual framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes. These courses are designed for adult learners, using a " scholar-practitioner " model. As an online learner?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

What is a good framework for designing a social network analysis mapping project so you get the most out of it? I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. Click to see larger diagram. Some questions related to the network analysis tools that I don't have the answers to and have started scanning. The tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Conclusion.

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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. The key isn't schizophrenia: it's personal honesty.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five).

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

Blackbaud used these organizations’ National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes as reported on their 990 tax returns for grouping purposes. These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

You simply register with a social bookmarking site, typically a free service, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate your individual bookmarks as public or private. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. nouns, etc.

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