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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of July 18th). It also offers group text messaging and video chat."

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items.

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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 new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. social network and community sites.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

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Read more about our progress and stay tuned for the next web redesign update! case study Community feedback nptech nten redesign survey Web Sites website Program'

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

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or only need a basic web presence, you can get by with a simple site. Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? If you don’t need most of those functions, have other ways of fulfilling them – Keebler elves? – drupalize.me.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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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.