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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. How are you using the NpTech Tag? I admit it.

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If I could do the NpTech Tag Over Again.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb is facilitating. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. nptech was chosen so that it made sense, and because it was short -- short and intuitive. Here's the description (notes here ?)

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Life, Times, and Context of the NpTech Tag: An Informal Discussion/Reflection Online at CpSquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. How does one "facilitate" a community tagging project, if that can be done at all? What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How long did the NPtech thing take to get going?

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! That can make it difficult to navigate.