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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). A taxonomy is simply a system of classification, or a way of organizing things. This year, Candid is updating its taxonomy. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

NTEN

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? Having internal staff who can make some changes quickly certainly comes in handy when unexpected needs pop up - one argument for having a blended model.

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. Every aspect of Friendfeed is realtime, including the powerful search. for the last five years or so).

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. " "Internal delicious" would be very useful (earch person on staff has their tagged bookmarks and you could easiliy access it). However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

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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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that users have created and saved. I presented a very easy template for using tags and social bookmarking services to share internal information with a team, committee, or a few staff members. s a folksonomy.