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. 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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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? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Further reading: http :// www.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? Just tech savvy people? Tip 2: Assess your personnel - present and future. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? Technophobes? All of the above?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. Find out how to submit your comments in the Taxonomy Draft Review FAQ. NPTech Organization of the Month. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report? Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you want to find out who else uses what social bookmarking service in the nonprofit tech sector, check out Social Source Commons. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Browse the NpTech tag. If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons.

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