Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Media Applications and Tools.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this blog, I will first explain how Candid currently harnesses the power of AI technologies in our data and tools. Can this tool help people arrive at a deeper understanding of how Candid’s data can support their success? We strive to improve the AI-supported tools we build at Candid, and we rely on feedback from our users.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Join us on February 12th for a Feature Review session focused on client needs and taxonomy management. Specifically, this session will focus on tools and tips for managing and reporting presenting needs, met and unmet needs. In addition, we will provide an overview of new and existing Taxonomy Management Tools.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. If you don’t wish to pay for an assessment tool, see if you can borrow one. Or take advantage of free tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

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. They offer face-to-face workshops for facilitator training. What did you learn?

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In time for the busy holiday season, VisionLink has released new Community Resource Directory searching tools. The quoted search tools operate alongside the linguistically aware tools, stripping out, for example, plurals from the search terms. These include the ability to sort results by frequency and rank. Happy Holidays!

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VisionLink

APRIL 15, 2010

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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Automated tools to check for compatibility. Look for deprecated code drupal-check (cli tool) Upgrade Status contributed module Fix it Drupal Rector (cli tool) Manually. If you need help. Reach out to our team!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Automated tools to check for compatibility. Look for deprecated code drupal-check (cli tool) Upgrade Status contributed module Fix it Drupal Rector (cli tool) Manually. If you need help. Reach out to our team!

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Migrate your configuration : This includes content types, taxonomies, and module configuration, etc. Automated tools to check for compatibility. Look for deprecated code drupal-check (cli tool) Upgrade Status contributed module Fix it Drupal Rector (cli tool) Manually. If you need help. Reach out to our team!

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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? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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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 Are you interested in reading posts about case studies at other institutions or learning about tools you can try out yourself? spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use. The answer for all of us is yes, no, and primarily "it depends."

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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. Expensive to maintain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. .

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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

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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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. 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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

However, the tools continue to get better and better, and we are excited to begin working with Acquia's Drupal Commons , a recent entrant into the enterprise collaboration fray. It is a powerful hybrid, combining many of the best features of Jive together with Drupal's powerful taxonomy tools and Acquia's awesome faceted search.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Most all of the tools you’ll use online allow for you to show or hide different content for different users or groups. 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. How do you create a tag?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

This helped us develop our Outcomes taxonomy , that will ultimately address the lack of data on philanthropic activities that Karolina noted. These observations are helping us to expand the Outcomes taxonomy to equip grantmaking institutions with a new set of tools and terms to quantify and qualify their impact towards furthering the SDGs.

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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. I am excited about being really open about our approach and our processes, both as a way to get a great product out there and as a learning tool.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? VolunteerMatch has taken advantage of this tool. But remember, if you create a standalone tool you’re going to have to drive people to it.

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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. Further, I don't believe that the most powerful way to use the tools we have now is to do fundraising, however broad-based and peer to peer and direct and fancypants it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Whatever the tool we're using, the right metrics are those that can help understand engagement and relationships. She gives us some suggestions for tools. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. An incredible listening tool. for the last five years or so). If yes, how is it going? If not, why not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Social good organizations will embrace the new tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The tools powering these revolutionary changes in the corporate space can also be leveraged by social good organizations to drive dramatic shifts in effectiveness, scale and outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . Why map your network with a software tool? How technical?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

The project uses a tool named, STEVE, an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy The project description: Popular Internet applications that take advantage of social tagging ???

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

These multi-stakeholder partnerships will only be successful if participants have access to the right kind of data and tools to share information with their external counterparts along with the general public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship. It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. Let look at the tagging standards for the project.

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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. Think about what you want to accomplish and pick the tools/features to support that work. You will probably be using a variety of tools. But the most interesting part of WiseEarth platform is the groups feature.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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. My advice is always smaller/fewer is better. There seems to be a unique human desire to drive to the absurd when it comes to cataloging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. is a social bookmarking tool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us So, here???s

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