Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

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? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." The NpTech Meta Feed has been revised and move to here: [link]. But is it fixed?

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

The first phase of AI product development is problem understanding , and this phase has tremendous influence over how problems (e.g., The first phase of AI product development is problem understanding , and this phase has tremendous influence over how problems (e.g.,

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. We provided a model-based taxonomy that unified many graph learning methods. Inspired by the success of multi-core processing (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

” Revelio attempts to solve this problem by ingesting and analyzing public employment records to create what Zweig describes as a “universal HR database.” “In our taxonomies, we’ve created a mathematical representation of every job title, seniority level, work activity, skill and company.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Many projects and organizations that address big hairy problems such as poverty, healthcare access, and others often include a media component.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ruderman admitted that data reliability and consistency is one of the hardest problems to get right — and that their strategy is a big differentiator for them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The problem is that with the volume of information coming in, taking the time to inspect and understand each piece of suspicious activity can put enormous strain on an organization: It’s time-consuming, and, as it turns out, not the best use of that time because of the signal to noise ratio involved. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. Fulton’s talk was timely. During her talk at GEO, Fulton made an interesting observation about this era.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Security has a data problem. Tishbi — who spent time at CitiBank and digital entertainment startup Playtika before joining Datorama — says he often worked with security teams that had to juggle dozens of different tools, each with their own taxonomies and outputs, in order to get projects finished on time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. Google has just released a report called “ Accelerating Social Good with Artificial Intelligence, ” that offers insights gathered from all 2602 applications and includes an extensive taxonomy of AI4Good projects.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Verkada, meanwhile, says access was limited to employees who needed to fix technical problems or address user complaints. “We literally had 20-year-old interns that had access to over 100,000 cameras and could view all of their feeds globally,” one former senior-level employee told the publication.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

A former management consultant, Glass was approached several years ago by Terner, who was then the COO of Signals Analytics, a company with a significant churn problem. GrowthSpace was founded in 2018 by Dan Terner, Izhak Kedar and Glass.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Sudhakar says he built Aisera after perceiving the need for “predictive AI” solutions that could auto-resolve customer service, IT, sales and operations problems. “We thought [the pandemic] would be a problem, but Aisera’s technology does very well in remote environments. ” Aisera claims to do a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. The problem with seeing how it was used is that there wasn't necessarily enough data about how people were tagging -- as in there was not enough sites that multiple people tagged Also,del.icio.us

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“We optimize our [AI] models for industry-specific taxonomy and document types,” Sadasiva told TechCrunch in an email interview. “In addition, our focus on solving real-world business problems and our disciplined yet practical approach to growth kept Ushur out of tight spots as we maintained a steep growth trajectory.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

taxonomies.??? He acknowledges the problems with tagging, as we've heard elsewhere. Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? 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??? robotics??? in some circumstances.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. As several users pointed out, keeping a clean, simple design should be key consideration in redesign so as not to detract from NTEN’s offerings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

“T here was a realization that there was a bigger underlying problem that was being ignored in the market, which our solution had the potential to address,” Allen told TechCrunch in an email interview. And downstream data users can move with more confidence and speed when using this data to make decisions.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There are also broader metaverse-related taxonomies like one from game designer Raph Koster , who draws a distinction between “online worlds,” “multiverses,” and “metaverses.” On the contrary, people like Raph Koster think it’s one of the metaverse’s toughest problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal. Within a bounded problem space we have figured out a way to consistently answer that question -- and have been using the result for acquisition integration, sales, knowledge transfer, and much more. . The tools.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.” The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. Perhaps demise is too strong a word, then.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

All of the problems with any sort of document management solution (or knowledge management solution) are human, not technological (or even eschatological). For the most part, getting people to use them is the problem; getting them to use them correctly is a problem, and getting value out of all the work you put into them is a problem. (I

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object. Why are folksonomies useful?

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

register for an event, become a member, connect with their peers) What data helped name the problems that we’ll try to solve, and what data will guide our decisions throughout this process? Have a taxonomy horror story? And please, please share your favorite go-to resources with us. Design triumph? Or a question for Jessica and Karl?

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 2, 2024

The primary objective here is to establish a metric that can effectively measure the cleanliness level of a dataset, translating this concept into a concrete optimisation problem. Repeated issues pointing to the same cells significantly increase the likelihood of a problem being present there. Stay tuned then!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I developed a Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning- -a new conceptual framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. They wanted to dispel myths about what mental problems really mean. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Conclusion.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

Forum One helped simplify the site’s content strategy and taxonomy to focus on new Topics and Programs pages that centralize related resources, simplifying the experience of navigating to help both groups quickly and easily find the information they need. Clear calls-to-action.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Prompt taxonomy : Classifying prompts into a hierarchical structure with categories and tags to capture relationships and usage patterns. The Grey Jacket Problem : The result of using generic prompts in generative AI that yield results that may seem unique, but when viewed by the public look like everyone else’s content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

For example, taxonomy. One of the problems with tagging is the ambiguity of language that we use for tags. The goal isn???t t to classify, it???s s to remember.??? Weinberger said, ???The The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. It shows popularity ??? large number.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. So I am intimately acquainted with the problem that Foundation Center programmers are trying to solve with their machine learning approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Act 1: The Problem. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. t get bogged down ???

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 3, 2025

Agent-3s training environments/data include a large amount of artificial environments (video games, synthetic datasets of math and coding problems, synthetic datasets of various computer-use tasks) and also a substantial amount of real-life task data such as logs of trajectories of previous versions of Agent-3 conducting AI R&D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

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. Jayne Cravens has a great piece on the topic here and you find an excellent how-to article for using SKYPE with virtual volunteers here.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 14, 2025

This is the fourth essay in a series that Im calling How do we solve the alignment problem?. By AI for AI safety, I mean: any strategy that makes central use of future AI labor to improve our civilizations competence with respect to the alignment problem, without assuming a need for radical, human-labor-driven alignment progress first.

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