Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new home page design and enhanced search functionality. We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design. Tags: TechSoup Help.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Please consider rating posts to help your fellow readers (and me!) Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Help me help you by sharing your own thoughts about what you are looking for and what organizational structures would make sense to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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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. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

For complex you will almost certainly need some outside help, whether that’s a one-time build or an ongoing consulting relationship. Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? What is the significance of simple vs. complex?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

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. But now that the Drupal Community has their hands on it, we expect to see it mature quickly and are excited to help drive the evolution. Stay tuned!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Like the blogosphere, it helps enormously if you actually comment on items. I have been a huge fan of Friendfeed pretty much from the moment I joined and, as Robert Scoble often writes when posting a thought to Friendfeed, “here’s why”: A pleasant, intelligent, helpful community. An incredible listening tool. If yes, how is it going?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. That’s where curation comes in to lend a helping hand. Or, if you are clearly visible and helping to pull together threads of knowledge building across many platforms, your organization’s name is getting valuable exposure.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us It’s all about who has the authority to identify things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? For example, taxonomy. From there, you do math to make connections to what other people are using with the help of statistics. Schachter didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? These program notes will help you implement some of the ideas presented in the screencast. Getting Started Guide as a first step and review other help documents as needed.

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