Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? What are the technical and social pre-requisites for a tagging project? (a How long did the NPtech thing take to get going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0 First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. I think Web 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

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. What purpose do folksonomies serve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. Second, Tagging also allows social groups to form around similarities of interests and points of view. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny

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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'). What does social design look like in these new communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Technorati Tag: nptech. User has control to select a "tag" or "name" that is meaningful to the user. Shimon showed frassle.net.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. or more like web 1.0?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. There is huge excitement around the social aspect of 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? and folksonomy.???

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. Social Bookmarking. Act 1: The Problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

is a social bookmarking tool. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. Technorati Tag: nptech For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us

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