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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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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Laura Norvig is the Special Librarian for the Resource Center at nationalservice.gov/resources She works on the taxonomy, information architecture, search quality, and usability of the website, curates content, and has been instrumental in developing a social media presence for the Resource Center. Some are huge.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Conclusion.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) I was not able to find a taxonomy for social network analysis tools. A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. View more Microsoft Word documents from David Armano. The tools. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

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. The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? sharpie.???