Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Forum One’s technology team works with mission-driven organizations and government agencies to develop and optimize their Drupal website journeys. Take stock of your content : Delete/archive anything you don’t need.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Forum One’s technology team works with mission-driven organizations and government agencies to develop and optimize their Drupal website journeys. Take stock of your content : Delete/archive anything you don’t need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so). If not, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

. I’ve been writing about wikis (and other social technologies) can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.” You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. 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. In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

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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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

MARCH 19, 2012

” And this week, some attendees at the GEO conference were treated to Katherine Fulton of Monitor Institute’s discussion of networks and their relationship to technology. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. You can see screen shots of both of these in the slide show above. How do you create a tag? You can create a new tag every time you save something if you want to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. My job was the network weaver.

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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'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I do think that there are some discoverable values that are hard coded into any online platform.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us and Tehcnorati to designate technical resources that may be useful to nonprofits. nptech was chosen so that it made sense, and because it was short -- short and intuitive.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The emerging technology driving the 4th industrial revolution has incredible potential to change the way we work, live, connect and more. Ericsson is using their technology to sniff out human trafficking—but this required partnerships with experts in the nonprofit and foundation space, to name a few.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

However, as technology and the available tools have progressed, we’re now finally able to tackle all these issues in a comprehensive way and within a budget that our board will actually approve. Have a taxonomy horror story? As far as timing, while we probably should have tackled some of these issues years ago (e.g. Design triumph?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

So, in this instance, I plunged into the educational technology space. Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education." There's always something to be learned by reading from a variety of perspectives and getting out of the silo of a particular field. What caught my eye was the title of the report, What Is Web 2.0?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

But the writer, whose name is not given, seems to be quite astute technologically as well. Zen and the Art of Non-Profit Technology. It's Michelle Murrain's nptech blog, subtitled " Conscious, minimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology. " Elegant template, too. Here's one I'll be adding to my blogroll.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

Uniting partners around a universal taxonomy for reporting on their progress would help partners work together more efficiently while simultaneously allowing for autonomy. And that there is also a need for universal metrics for analysis without imposing on how each country wants and needs to uniquely solve its specific challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

All of the problems with any sort of document management solution (or knowledge management solution) are human, not technological (or even eschatological). For the most part, getting people to use them is the problem; getting them to use them correctly is a problem, and getting value out of all the work you put into them is a problem. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training. I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice.

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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. The importance of a technology steward or online moderator. First, there is the Directory - the largest international directory of non-profits and socially responsible organizations - approximately 110,000 from 243 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. 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. session during the Legal Services Conference Technology Initiative Grant Conference. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers." " He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. (Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. Find out how to submit your comments in the Taxonomy Draft Review FAQ. box.org salesforce microsoft nonprofit technology news nptech NPTech news' These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A few years ago at conferences I started asking my colleagues in the nonprofit technology field if they had a weblog. 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. The people who are paying attention are the techies.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work. Mullainathan described the evolution of machine learning. Fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Mike Seyfang, a nonprofit technology consultant in Austraila, tells us to avoid YouTube if you want to get remixed and mashedup.

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