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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable.

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Building and Supporting Your Drupal Website: In-House, Outsourced, or Both?

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If critical functions like fundraising, advocacy, community building, membership management, marketing, and publicity are being fulfilled by your website, you will want to invest a proportional amount of time and money into keeping it humming along. Tip 1: Assess the importance of your website.

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public. The project uses a tool named, STEVE, an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

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KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. functionality.

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Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems

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Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. and community functionality, including user-submitted content. Community support, where Drupal came out on top.

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

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” To be fair, Causes describes the acquisition as a new chapter for the Causes community. 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 name is an acronym of "micro finance open source."

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