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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

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. It also offers group text messaging and video chat."

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If I could do the NpTech Tag Over Again.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The idea was to tell people to tag with nptech everything that is relevant and then look to see what was being tagged to see how the tags were being used. Therefore, the goal was to encourage people to use it.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. You won't see people holding signs that say "I'll tag for food."

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Clearly the people in the room were del.icio.us and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? t feel there was necessarily tension between individual and the group. ???You For example, taxonomy.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the side, by personal email I was sharing interesting links, articles, and conversations with people who I thought might be interested. So, I guess the only change I have seen in the last few years is that some people are paying attention to it. The people who are paying attention are the techies.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t