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? Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine?
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. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.
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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?
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new home page design and enhanced search functionality. We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design. We plan to complete Phase 3 in June of 2011.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 20, 2009
If you’ve created a listening strategy, whether it’s a vanity search on yourself or your org, or topics that you monitor, you can bring ALL of your listening into ONE place (see my slideshow for more tips on this). Every aspect of Friendfeed is realtime, including the powerful search. An incredible listening tool. If not, why not?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path.
NTEN
JUNE 10, 2011
On our “ samples from the field ” section of our website, we have opted for a low-tech solution to shield against viruses and inappropriate content. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website.
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