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NpTechTag MetaFeed: 2007 Version 1 - Feed Fixed, Tag Still Broken?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." A brilliant reflection, if only presenting one point of view, but still worth reading!

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. Need a chuckle?

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Back in the early days of Web 2.0,

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