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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

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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. social network and community sites. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users.

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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. At first, tagging (bookmarking) was used for individual use, and then it started being more social and more as a means to broadcast information. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us

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

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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 Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The main correction that I offered was for nonprofits to adopt a news page format, with reverse chronological entries linking to deeper content on site and elsewhere online. I also receive recommended news items and other feedback through a form on the site. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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is a social bookmarking tool. I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us