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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. It's kind of fun! " So, with the fight metaphor, I couldn't resist running a googlefight. No surprise.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The data is organized by a revised taxonomy, initially developed in 2013 with support from the Knight Foundation, which now includes five main subjects: Media Content and Platforms (previously known as Media Platforms). I find databases that let you search and visualize data fun and highly useful.

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Fun with Drupal Commons, a Powerful Solution for Online Community Building

Forum One

It is a powerful hybrid, combining many of the best features of Jive together with Drupal's powerful taxonomy tools and Acquia's awesome faceted search. Similar to Open Atrium and Jive , Commons blends web content management and enterprise 2.0

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NTEN's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

NTEN

As one respondent wrote, [the site] "does not reflect the fun, caring, social personality of NTEN and the NTEN community. The biggest pet peeve users cited was that NTEN is very-text heavy and not very engaging. More visual content would make the site much more useable, appealing, and easy-to-read.

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

I’m happy to say that I had the great honor of serving as the speaker for the webinar and had a ton of fun. If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. How do you create a tag?

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

Are you having fun yet? Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. But is it fun? The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. and make it fun by adding another player. With good reason.

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Life, Times, and Context of the NpTech Tag: An Informal Discussion/Reflection Online at CpSquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? Want to join in the fun? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? How does one "facilitate" a community tagging project, if that can be done at all?

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