Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

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. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Those visible changes to the site also represented significant improvement to our back end systems — both hardware and software. We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design. Tags: TechSoup Help. We plan to complete Phase 3 in June of 2011.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. rating items.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. What I saw, introducing it to two law firms, was that the resistance faded quickly once the system was in place, and users had such better tools to find and work with their documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

" There is a section about tagging. Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy???

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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. First, some background on tagging. Tagging is a term that refers to people assigning keywords (“tags”) to things. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

You'll also find a detailed taxonomy of issue areas related to social justice and environmental restoration. In this way, permaculture has become both a design system and a loosely defined philosophy or lifestyle ethic. Tags: network effectiveness networking online communities scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. I go to my blogreader or email and then I get distracted or I can't quickly extract it from del.ici.ous because I didn't tag it carefully or I can't quite remember the correct name of the blog. (I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

I was already very interested in automation at this point and built a small content management system for the purpose of publishing those bits. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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