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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Great reads from December 12th through December 13th

Amy Sample Ward

Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern | Social Signal - Interesting ideas, some more doable than others of course, for how social media could be put to use under the Obama presidency. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Check out the discount!

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 too bad they don’t have stumbleupon included. But I’m not so sold on stumbleupon anyway.

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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. As my colleague Geoff Livingston points out, nonprofits have limited time. Let’s face it.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning. A community tag stream. Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. Water cooler conversations around shared objects. Viral sharing.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Tags: guest blogging nptech socialnetworking. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. The First Step Get a champion in the organization. Who's your champion? Find one now before Part 1 begins.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.