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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects. Invest in responsible open-sourcing to share intellectual property (e.g.,

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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? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts? Be Helpful.

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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. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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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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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download. The project uses a tool named, STEVE, an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

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KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. My advice is always smaller/fewer is better.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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