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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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? How long did the NPtech thing take to get going? We'll be discussing this online leading up to a conference call Thursday, March 1 at 20:00 GMT.

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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. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofit nptech ). If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks. View more presentations or upload your own. How do you create a tag?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field. " International Digital Youth Work Events, 20th-23rd Sep – What can you share?

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JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Further reading: http :// www.

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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'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Technorati Tag: nptech. The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

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. NPTech Organization of the Month. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report? Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

case study Community feedback nptech nten redesign survey Web Sites website Program' Read more about our progress and stay tuned for the next web redesign update!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy Museums could learn from these developments, and use folksonomic classification both to improve access to on-line collections and to provide the foundation for community-based services that reinforce the role of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? This is interesting to me because of the analysis of the NPTECH tag. And, by looking over the public field of tags, we can see which tags are most frequently used and how they relate. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? may be equivalent to the tag ???novel???

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

Do you have a team with some expertise in information architecture, taxonomy, and usability, a team with capacity to outline website specifications clearly? Tip 2: Assess your personnel - present and future. Do you have a full time staff member who lives and breathes Drupal? Consider this in hiring decisions, and in future budgeting.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

So, my lens is focused how does one translate lessons learned from edtech sector to nptech sector? It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. There's lot of rich learning here that can certainly enrich our work in the nonprofit sector, although some translation is required.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

It's Michelle Murrain's nptech blog, subtitled " Conscious, minimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology. " The potential customer does not want to hear for example that you have a " communications log where each contact with a constituent can be tagged with concepts from a user-defined taxonomy ".

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I should note that discussions involving document types, metadata, and the dreaded t-word (taxonomy) are a bit like a drive through the 1st circle of hell in a convertible – Abandon all hope and wear a nice hat. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint. My advice is always smaller/fewer is better.

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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. For example, taxonomy. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman I arrived early so I could get a good seat, which paid off because I was close enough to Schachter that I video taped his elevator speech and got a business card , too! What irks you???? Schachter: ???I???m

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

This makes the system more straightforward to understand, but can be cumbersome to update and limits very advanced structures (like structuring a site around a multifaceted taxonomy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Browse the NpTech tag. This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ??? s a folksonomy. Browse the bookmarks of colleagues and subject matter experts. If you don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech. My main concern with social bookmarking right now is that there is really only one player -- del.icio.us -- and I don't like a collective resource like that being in private hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

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. He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1. Technorati Tag: nptech

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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! The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies.

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