Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

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? What do those guidelines look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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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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

MAY 3, 2009

There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. Twitalyzer calculates your influence based on your signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity and clout, and it also allows you to calculate a score for any other Twitter user you wish to track. She gives us some suggestions for tools.

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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. Behold the Cost-to-Benefit Ratio—Robin Hood Foundation It’s not popular to admit this in the non-profit sector: I have a finance degree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. s a folksonomy.

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