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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, I think that a lot of Web 2.0, Some of Web 2.0,

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. s a folksonomy. Publishing an RSS Feed of Your Bookmarks onto Your Web Site. First you have navigate to the RSS feed scrolling down the to bottom of the page and clicking on the orange RSS icon. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { After that, I’ll go under the hood, and talk about things like open APIs and AJAX. { The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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