Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

Fabulous: Tagging allows you to categorize information without being forced to use a pre-determined vocabulary and allows other to easily contribute content. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. User has control to select a "tag" or "name" that is meaningful to the user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. But they have gotten too busy to analyze the information. Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

to some nonprofit staff people who are struggling with information overload and managing personal collections of web-based resources they need to do their work. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. But more than style, del.icio.us needs more nonprofit substance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

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. We are owning not just our information but the organization of information. Amazing presentation -- all visual and resonated with my earlier obsession about information overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Information comes to the blog and leaves from the blog. You are writing to create conversation, not to just inform. . Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Conclusion.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. So you can use delicious not only to organize your own book marks, but to put your information into the hands of other tech-savvy users. When you bookmark a site, delicious will tell you how many others have also bookmarked that item.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Many nonprofits professionals have to manage a lot of information on the web and share it with their co-workers or clients. Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources.

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