Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

A link to a Web 2.0 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'). Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Why are folksonomies useful? But there’s a problem (for me) with this kind of tagging: it only affects the Web. Ideas design. This is brilliant on so many levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. I found that idea exciting! Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. What they tag as important and why. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn ! Democracy in Action give us a great list of " Six Outside the Stocking Ideas for Online Fundraising."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. He got in touch with me last week to discuss some ideas for the article and asked me to respond to a few questions. Set your high-concept goals and find a Web 2.0 Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. And my response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Back in the early days of Web 2.0, The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0 To get a zeitgeist of nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

These program notes will help you implement some of the ideas presented in the screencast. Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and describing them with tags.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0

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