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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This last week I was at NTC 09 in San Francisco leading a session on Mapping Metrics To Strategy. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. Whatever the tool we're using, the right metrics are those that can help understand engagement and relationships. She gives us some suggestions for tools.

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