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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. I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.

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

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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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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

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Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

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Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

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Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. That can make it difficult to navigate. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech.