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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post.

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NTEN's Website Redesign: Survey results from the community

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With NTEN''s website redesign project underway, we took a step back and asked, "How do we know how our users use our site and what they want if we don''t ask? So we turned to the NTEN community, as we will continue to do at various stages of the redesign process, for your candid feedback about the NTEN website.

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Connecting Resources and People: a Journey from Website to Digital Strategy

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NTEN staff met up with Reggie Henry, CIO of ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership, to understand how their membership organization went about meeting the challenge of better connecting ASAE''s online resources and information to the members who need and want specific content.

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

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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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? But is efficiency the most important thing? Good point, except – who are those experts?

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. 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. How do you create a tag?

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

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Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. Some excellent resources emerged from this discussion, so I thought I'd share highlights here and invite you to join the conversation on the NTEN Discuss list. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.

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