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NpTech Tag Discussion: Analysis of Tags Used With NpTech - Thank you Chris!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. " Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.

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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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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NTEN's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

NTEN

with no problems, but it is a confusing, non-seamless transaction experience, both in terms of design interface and glitches in data sync between different systems. Navigating across the different NTEN sites (myNTEN, myNTC, etc.) case study Community feedback nptech nten redesign survey Web Sites website Program'

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

tags: nonprofit nptech ). I share a lot of information online, but if it is something I really want to be personal, I take advantage of the settings in different applications and mark things as private or hidden. Most all of the tools you’ll use online allow for you to show or hide different content for different users or groups.

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NpTechTag MetaFeed: 2007 Version 1 - Feed Fixed, Tag Still Broken?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allan Benamer gave a shout that the NpTech Meta Feed was broken. The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. 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?

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