Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” The next question asked us to find flaws with the solution and pass the paper to someone else. In the last question, we were asked to add a final or revised solution.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

It is nice to arrive on scene where 800 people in modest surroundings are energetically pursuing questions that have to be answered to build a movement. 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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

It’s always a little weird to talk over the phone and not be able to hear or see those you are presenting to, but everyone was really great with comments and questions and responding online so I knew I wasn’t talking to myself! The questions folks asked at the end were terrific! View more presentations or upload your own.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

It should be much more "human," much more "cool," and should point much more quickly and easily to the resources people need (research, tools, community for questions, etc)." As one respondent wrote, [the site] "does not reflect the fun, caring, social personality of NTEN and the NTEN community. The site is really hard to navigate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? 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. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" 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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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? Tip 2: Assess your personnel - present and future. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? Consider this in hiring decisions, and in future budgeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

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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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Here are a few example questions to consider asking: What systems do you use today, and what would we like to have in the long term? A few questions you might consider asking include: When we onboard a new team member, do we train them on how to find or access our data and where to go/who to speak with about data?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In these engagements, we have relied on our mantra, "people first, technology second," encouraging our clients to focus their energy on providing useful content, facilitating sharing, and connecting people, and to avoid a disproportionate focus on technology questions. This hasn't changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. Gavin raises some good questions: What the hell is the "NPTech" tag and how would one use it anyway? How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. Quietly, a lot of groups are doing this important work – but I am beginning to feel they may require even greater attention.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

In our first installment, NTEN’s IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, and Operations Director, Jessica Holliday, answer a few questions about what we’re setting out to do, and how, and why. We’ll be turning to you as we contemplate some of our trickier questions, whether through the NTEN Discuss list , surveys, or other nifty tools we discover.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic. Some are huge. rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful. The big questions I want to know are related to the learning goals: What is the audience's level of experience? You can also encourage those who are less experienced to ask their questions. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). Good question - it contains elements of both. A link to a Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative. If the goal is for organizations to adopt these frameworks as their own, I think we need a lot more supporting material--and maybe fewer different taxonomies. What do you get out of the report?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag. Write a blog post reflecting on these questions and tag it with NpTech and we will summarize the key points. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

She puts the what to measure question in context from hits, to views, to engagement. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. It's about confronting what doesn't work and improving it. It gets at that failing formally point that Clay Shirky was talking about NTC Keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Here's a list of questions we're discussing online now: How does the community evolve along with the tag and how to nurture it? What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? We'll be discussing this online leading up to a conference call Thursday, March 1 at 20:00 GMT.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

See 5 key questions you should be considering as you do here.). This is why at Blackbaud, we’re building the Sustainable Development Goals taxonomy into all of our cloud software products, so nonprofits, foundations and corporations can not only track and dialogue around funding and but stay connected to the larger global conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Users comment (often in relation to what is being said on a livestreaming audio event, or in reply to a question) and the comments show up in realtime, no refresh required, no relying on pesky Twitter search. Here’s how it works: the moderator starts a post. One of those venues is Twitter. If yes, how is it going? If not, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

That's not a real question, just the idle thoughts of a slightly exhausted airline passenger stuck on a runaway on a Virgin America flight who can't use the wifi to get back to the clouds to summarize the rest of the of learnings/advice about social network analysis that came from Twitter while I was live tweeting. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

As we thought more expansively about partnerships, a question was asked about what role students across the world can play in the SDGs and how can they participate. Uniting partners around a universal taxonomy for reporting on their progress would help partners work together more efficiently while simultaneously allowing for autonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. The follow up question is something like, how I can find nonprofit blogs on xyz topic or what blogs would you recommend. (I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. Another person responded It's just another list (that is obsolete as soon as its posted).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. or more like web 1.0?)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

So, now the question - should a nonprofit organization have a blog? The potential customer does not want to hear for example that you have a " communications log where each contact with a constituent can be tagged with concepts from a user-defined taxonomy ". Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I developed a Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning- -a new conceptual framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. If you have questions about the research, please email AHR@hrfn.org. [1]

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. It ain’t Risk, but the addition of the social question (do we think alike?) Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re For example, taxonomy. Then it was opened up for questions -- that were as wide ranging as the answers. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. re the poster child for Web 2.0 and folksonomy.??? t use the word ???folksonomy.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Strengthening Logic Identify any flawed logic, questionable assumptions, or gaps in the reasoning of the previous reply. Prompt taxonomy : Classifying prompts into a hierarchical structure with categories and tags to capture relationships and usage patterns. Evaluate if the style and tone fit the intended audience and goals.

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