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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

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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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. The tools.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Discussed the differences in perspective between generations. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Conclusion.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Step 1: Discuss Tagging Policy. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s sharpie.???