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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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'). Resources included in the wiki with podcast. A link to a Web 2.0

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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.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Read David Weinberger's reply (Berkman Fellow and author of an article called " Why Tagging Matters ") to the article here.

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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

Museum 2.0

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. There’s a term in podcasting, “podfading,” that describes podcasts that are launched with vigor but fade into non-existence as its producers become overwhelmed or lose interest. Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites.

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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. I’ll then talk about blogging, podcasting and vlogging, which I think are probably the most hyped, and potentially least useful for nonprofits to jump into without a lot of thought. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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