Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

Tag 100

Tag Discussion Folksonomy Taxonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. 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. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

Nptech 50

Nptech Guidelines Tag Folksonomy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

A social work flow is part of the indicators for “Institutional Support” in the Networked Nonprofit Maturity of Practice model I shared on the SSIR blog last week and in my forth coming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Image from Steve Heye. How did you develop it? What are your tips and best practices?

Social Media 107

Social Media Media Social Work 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. Write a blog post reflecting on these questions and tag it with NpTech and we will summarize the key points. I'm also remembering some previous obsession about cross-blog conversations and how to facilitate. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Discussion Summary 50

.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Feature them on social media, and in podcasts, testimonials, and blog posts. They must also provide the authority and guidance that unites strategy, brand, and voice across the organization. Use that network of respect to elevate your brand.

Trend 221

Trend Influence Social Media Associations 221

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

Web 123

Web Philanthropy NTEN Social Network 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

There were a few more comments that I want to capture here: Kevin (don't know who he is, but we have very similar interests and I'm so glad that I found his blog via the NpTech tag - I don't think this tag is useless? " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.

Nptech 56

Nptech Tag Analysis Folksonomy 56

Association Analytics

OCTOBER 7, 2024

.” Making this process work isn’t a snap of the fingers, it’s going to take some work. Luckily, those steps are pretty easy to identify and take, even if the work involved can be a bit of a lift.

Content 169

Content Strategy Marketing Data 169

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. 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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. functionality. " Web 2.0,

Summary 50

Summary Conversation Nptech Wiki 50

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. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute.

Facilitation 126

Facilitation Resource Design Nonprofit 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

Public 104

Public Learning Wiki Evaluation 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

Conversation 50

Conversation Nonprofit Bookmarking News 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

Well, I got this email from her and just wanted to blog my congratulations! My dissertation, "Taxonomy of Collaborative E-learning," was based on a qualitative study conducted entirely online. Love, Dr. Salmons Janet writes two blogs! It was so long ago that we both forgot the exact circumstances.

Taxonomy 50

Taxonomy Listserv Collaboration Review 50

Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In this blog, we share a bit about what this data set is, why we use it, and how you can, too. ii Finally, we “freeze” the Foundation 1000 annual sets (however, significant changes to our data or taxonomy periodically require us to update these static data sets.) Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000.

Foundation 116

Foundation Analysis Trend Course 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

Romania 50

Romania Web Foundation Conference 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

If you did not attend and are curious what funders are learning, you still have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions discussed right here on this blog. Beth Kanter has blogged about the topic for years. The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. that touches on the subject.

Internet 103

Internet Conference Charity Taxonomy 103

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on. 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?

Social Media 100

Social Media Slides Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. How are they different from taxonomies? The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. I've asked Marshall to put a forward on the old feed. But is it fixed?

Feeds 50

Feeds Tag Folksonomy Taxonomy 50

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

The subject area is based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE). iii Here, subject area is defined by the ten broad categories under the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities. appeared first on Candid Blog. Nonprofits are most likely to share data at the leader level and on gender and race/ethnicity.

Demographics 98

Demographics Share Data Nonprofit 98

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. “ .

Taxonomy 61

Taxonomy Metrics San Francisco Foundation 61

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. The post AI at Candid: Powering technology to support the sector’s lasting success appeared first on Candid Blog. Turning data we collect into the most comprehensive view of the social sector.

Technology 98

Technology Support Grant Proposal 98

TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

Web 79

Web Taxonomy Language Training 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools. So, one thing led to another and we starting batting around some ideas , along with my very smart colleague, Rachel Weidinger. A disclaimer.

Measure 90

Measure Twitter Tools Taxonomy 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

Nptech 50

Nptech Conference Taxonomy Folksonomy 50

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Some are huge.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Community Share Network 86

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. 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.

Drupal 56

Drupal Community Wiki Fun 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

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.

Tag 50

Tag Folksonomy Taxonomy Slideshare 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

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.

Taxonomy 20

Taxonomy Social Museum Wikipedia 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? taxonomies.???

Tag 56

Tag Internet Folksonomy Report 56

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. Can you even design it?

Folksonomy 50

Folksonomy Taxonomy Skype Nptech 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. ” What is Human Centered Design? These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people.

Facilitation 134

Facilitation Method Nonprofit Technique 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

As I blogged in response to the article, Causes is best for creating connections and awareness. If you didn't read the thread over at Allison Fine's blog, you can find it here. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

Measure 67

Measure Relationship Metrics ROI 67

The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

One feature called “People Analytics” let customers “search and filter based on many different attributes, including gender traits, clothing color, and even a person’s face,” said Verkada in a blog post. Their cloud-based systems that gave customers’ easy access to their camera’s feeds also enabled the breach.

Camera 74

Camera Accessibility Feeds Taxonomy 74

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. It was a big surprise that this started being used by a large group of people, and also that tags started being used for just about everything (photos, blog posts, etc.).

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Taxonomy Bookmarking 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. There's not even a description of what the blogs do. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. Many times, I'm asked by newcomers to RSS readers what is the best way to get started is finding blogs to read. I remember where or when or if I blogged about it.

Skills 50

Skills Wiki Taxonomy RSS 50

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. The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. Experts in taxomony find great urls.

Tag 50

Tag Taxonomy Folksonomy Delicious 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

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).

Map 79

Map Fund Media Tools 79