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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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Epic Upgrade Releasing Next Week

VisionLink

Over the next week, I''ll summarize each module.

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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. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's an example of "social search" in action. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? when we search for tagged items. In fact, by analyzing how various social groups use tags, we can do better at understanding how seemingly different worldviews map to one another.

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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. 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. Why are folksonomies useful?