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Taxonomy for Better UX: Expanding People as an Axis

Velir

Taxonomy plays a vital role in your website’s user experience. Taxonomy itself helps you better organize content when you use it in content management and information architecture. A taxonomy contains axes, which is defined as a specific category and its metadata. Design & UX

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Enhanced Taxonomy Management

VisionLink

VisionLink has improved the Taxonomy Management module, particularly useful to information and referral and 2-1-1 operations. As required by AIRS certification for 2-1-1 call centers, certain categories of the Taxonomy can be flagged as inactive so that services cannot be posted to these categories.

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How to Use Data to Drive Your Content Strategy

Association Analytics

Organize or create a taxonomy for your content. If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. This will only work if taxonomy and tags are uniform. When a solid taxonomy is implemented correctly, it can improve your site’s SEO. Identify top terms and build a hierarchy.

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Auto Taxonomy Updates for Call Centers

VisionLink

We have released an updated version of our auto-update solution to ensure that the categories through which you manage your resource directory are aligned with the ever improving AIRS taxonomy. We were the first to support both the auto-update standard and the sixth level of the taxonomy. We were the first to support both the 2.07

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Level Up Your Marketing with Analytics

Association Analytics

In addition to the tools, a very important piece of successful marketing is Taxonomy & Metadata – the foundation of your marketing. By carefully implementing taxonomy and metadata, you will learn more about your members and their preferences. You can learn more about content tagging and taxonomy in this blog.

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How to Improve Your Personalization Approach with Taxonomy

Velir

In the last five years, we’ve seen an explosion of tools that allow marketers to personalize audience experiences. With these advances, you might think that personalization is easier now. However, we’ve seen that greater flexibility, channels, data, and possibilities can make personalization more daunting.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Building a Lightweight Data Strategy for Your Association

Association Analytics

If you’re further along in your data journey, make sure you have the following implemented so you can successfully and efficiently make ongoing updates to your data strategy: Shared dashboards and performance management systems Data quality standards and processes Data collection and systems audits Content taxonomy and central repository Data literacy (..)

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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. " So, with the fight metaphor, I couldn't resist running a googlefight. No surprise.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

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. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance.

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Feature Review, February 12th, 1:00pm Mountain

VisionLink

Join us on February 12th for a Feature Review session focused on client needs and taxonomy management. In addition, we will provide an overview of new and existing Taxonomy Management Tools. Join us for a WebEx Feature Review of this set of workflow and taxonomy tools available in your CommunityOS. 26th (see below).

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Connecting Resources and People: a Journey from Website to Digital Strategy

NTEN

integrated digital strategy Leadership taxonomy Web Sites websites'

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Compliant with AIRS 6.0 Standards

VisionLink

We were in fact the first to support the AIRS XML Resource Data Exchange standard, the first to support all six levels of the AIRS taxonomy, and we also support the auto-update protocols for the taxonomy itself. of their overall standards.

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3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute.

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Does Your Nonprofit Have A Social Media Work Flow?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image from Steve Heye. ” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? Does your organization have a social media work flow? How did you develop it? What are your tips and best practices?

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The PB&J Principle: Managing expectations of data and how it flows to make an appetizing website

NTEN

drupal information architecture taxonomy Web Sites websites IT Staff' We talked about the fundamental elements of a Drupal site, how they relate, and—most importantly—the order in which elements need to be determined.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

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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All Services Report Enhancement

VisionLink

And both provide information about affiliated Agencies and Programs, Taxonomy codes and more. Making reports easier to run, and the results easier to view, VisionLink is pleased to release a significantly enhanced multi-page report showing information about every Service in our customer''s Community Resource Directories.

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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?

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3 Reasons to Love Outcomes Measurement

Tech Soup Blog

With a sector-sourced (and always growing) taxonomy of outcomes and output measurements, this common language will enable those who are already successful in achieving impact to share best practices and for those who are struggling, or just starting their outcomes journey, the ability to jump in. I had to become a part of this!

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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.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 77: Leveraging the Power of People

Connection Cafe

Why the sector needs a standard taxonomy to manage and measure volunteerism. This is really about creating a common language, a taxonomy, of how you measure and manage volunteers.”. How volunteers and volunteerism can support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 58 percent of the output is by volunteers.

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Outcomes & Social Investing: Key Themes for Funders

Connection Cafe

Sector – sourcing a taxonomy (for both the funder and the nonprofit seeking funding communities) allows the sector to speak the same language – This taxonomy will be deployed as a part of the outcomes solution. It’s a win-win.

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New Search Features

VisionLink

We have also moved the linguistically aware searching tools into the Taxonomy Search toolset. Search Results Sorting--we have also enhanced the choices authorized users have to control the view of search results. These include the ability to sort results by frequency and rank. See the documentation for details. Happy Holidays!

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A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 9

Forum One

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Many contributed modules did not provide an upgrade path , so you might have to migrate your configuration changes manually Rewrite any custom modules : The code you wrote for custom work in Drupal 7 will no longer work in Drupal 10.

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A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 10

Forum One

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Many contributed modules did not provide an upgrade path , so you might have to migrate your configuration changes manually Rewrite any custom modules : The code you wrote for custom work in Drupal 7 will no longer work in Drupal 10.

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February 26th Design Session, 1:00 pm Mountain

VisionLink

VisionLink’s development team is queued up to focus on another round of enhancements to the Taxonomy Management & Reporting capacities of CommunityOS, and we want your input!

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Kicking off SOCAP16 at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Connection Cafe

This taxonomy will enable us to aggregate data and provide benchmarking services for the purpose of supporting corporations, foundations, and NPOs to connect over shared interests. Currently, we are building a solution to enable people to use uniform measurement for social change.

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New Feature! and the Taxonomy of the Museum 2.0 Collection

Museum 2.0

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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Epic Upgrade Releasing Next Week

VisionLink

Over the next week, I''ll summarize each module. Each component can be used right away, and yet each also provides fundamentally new and advanced capacities which can drive, and be driven by, complex community and partnership issues and needs.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The data is organized by a revised taxonomy, initially developed in 2013 with support from the Knight Foundation, which now includes five main subjects: Media Content and Platforms (previously known as Media Platforms).

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Having Greater Impact Through Community and Collaboration

Connection Cafe

We took our research along with decades of industry experience and created what we call a sector-sourced taxonomy of key performance indicators (measurements) built upon best practices from client funders, nonprofits and experts in the impact measurement field.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. According to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE ) , there are 900 foundations serving community colleges. .

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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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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A Guide to Preparing for Drupal 9

Forum One

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Many contributed modules did not provide an upgrade path , so you might have to migrate your configuration changes manually Rewrite any custom modules : The code you wrote for custom work in Drupal 7 will no longer work in Drupal 9.

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What's Cooking in Tagging?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taxonomy Folksonomy Cook Ebook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: dowjones folksonomy ). That's the powerpoint version - hard to read, so download the PDF - it's more than just eye candy. Here's an interview with her on Read/Write Talk.

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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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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