Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 He notes that if you are new to Web 2.0, What caught my eye was the title of the report, What Is Web 2.0? folksonomy??? and looking into some of the implications. this is an excellent introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Back in the early days of Web 2.0, Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies? But give it time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. one of the aspects of sensemaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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