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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

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Click to see larger image Flickr Photo By @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools , a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. I noticed this a few months ago, when a few of us analytics geeks fooled around with creating a Twitter Monitoring and Analytic Tools Taxonomy.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

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Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe Note from Beth: This guest post is part 2 of coverage of SoCap 09.

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NpTech Tag Discussion: Analysis of Tags Used With NpTech - Thank you Chris!

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" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations.

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