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I Tag Hand That Feeds Me Beth Kanter
The document discusses how nonprofits can use tagging and aggregation tools like del.icio.us to more effectively share and organize web resources. It notes that developing standardized tags and explaining the benefits to organizational leaders could help nonprofits harness the power of social tagging. The document also raises questions about how to produce a high-quality set of resources through tagging while avoiding potential chaos or overload from an unstructured approach.
I Tag Hand That Feeds Me Beth Kanter
- 1. I tag thehand that feeds me: examining aggregation and tagging in the nonprofit world Beth Kanter, May 30, 2006
- 2. Unscientific Content Analysisbased on Examples Found on Net2
- 3. Findable What aresome ways that Nonprofits can pick the low
- 4. What are someways that Nonprofits can pick the low Social Aspect, Discovery What did you tag?
- 5. What are someways that Nonprofits can pick the low What have you tagged? Sharing Your Knowledge http://del.icio.us/poco
- 6. Publish w/RSS feedto your blog
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- 8. I’m off to the computer lab across the street to help a client with a job search …
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- 13. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go…. “ benefits” folder or “food stamps” folder … Yikes, I have over a 100 folders!
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- 21. Alice’s Jane’s Billy’sSally’s Jim’s Lisa’s Walter’s Marnie’s Nancy’s
- 22. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go…. There is must be a better way …
- 23. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go….
- 24. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go…. Plays with del.icio.us Hmm … I can ditch those diskettes!
- 25. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go…. Discovers the social aspect I can wander through other people’s bookmarks by tags and find related items in a way that helps me get at various topics
- 26. Playshop Is thisa better way to share and track each other’s resources than our current system. We need some standard tags to make this work. Check out the resources I found tagged with NPTECH.
- 27. A little later… Tagging? Delicious? Tell me more ….
- 28. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go….
- 29. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go….
- 30. How do weexplain this to our ED? We need some standard tags. Will this produce a quality set of resources or more chaos? Let’s try an experiment and see what we learn …
- 31. And I’ll emailyou the info for the food stamps online application tutorial later …. have to go….
- 32. Bootstrapping delicious topublish resources to web….
- 33. share web resourcesinternally and find them more efficiently than email silos publish resource lists to an otherwise static web site Tagging a tool for npos to …
- 34. Tagging policy orstandardized tags Some instructions Helper tools to make work process efficient Willingness to experiment Anything else? In practice …
- 35. What are someways that Nonprofits can pick the low Challenge: Reflection Questions for wider adoption How can enthusiasts talk about the results more versus the process of tagging? How do we help NPO leaders (whose learning styles or organizational context make it difficult for them to) understand the value of tagging? How do we support or encourage a collaborative tagging practice that leads a quality set of resources? How do we manage the “messiness” of tagging to avoid information overload while still reaping the benefits of the social aspect?
Editor's Notes
- #2 I’m going to focus on the question of how nonprofits can begin to use tagging and aggregation? Let’s start with quick overview of what’s actually happening with the use of tagging in the nonprofit space