Submitted by Todd on Wed, 2010/05/05 - 11:35
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There is a new addition to this blog's sidebar: the two blocks marked with the (perhaps familiar) blue-and-black logo show recent links saved on the social bookmarking website Delicious that are related to nonprofit technology in China. If you use a feed reader, you can also subscribe to these two feeds directly:
A feed for (mainly English) China nonprofit news in general is also available:
These feeds are automatically generated based on the tags that Delicious users add to their bookmarks. For the last few weeks, I have been using Delicious to save interesting links that I come across, and you can join in too! When you find an article or website that you like, it only takes a few mouse clicks to share it with the community. All you need to do is join Delicious, and then follow these tagging guidelines when you save a bookmark:
- Chinese links related to nonprofit technology: add the tags 公益技术 and 公益 (and any other tags you like).
- English links related to nonprofit technology in China: add the tags china, nptech, and nonprofit (and any other tags you like).
- English links related to other nonprofit topics in China: add the tags china and nonprofit (and any other tags you like).
That's all! Your bookmarks will then appear in the feeds shortly.
This idea was inspired by the "nptech" tag, which emerged in the nonprofit technology community back in 2004 and is now widely used on Delicious and Twitter. It has been so successful, in fact, that if you subscribe to this feed on Delicious alone then you will receive dozens of items every week. That's great, but in the flood of information it's hard to find content that is relevant in the Chinese context, given the language differences and the much more limited resources of most Chinese nonprofits.
By using two tags in combination, we are effectively filtering the nptech feed to extract only those items that are also tagged china. But of course, this only works if there are people saving and tagging the links in the first place, which is why we need your help if the project is to succeed!
The tag 公益技术 is similarly inspired by the success of the "nptech" community tagging project. Of course, we could just use the same tag for both Chinese and English content, but not everyone is comfortable reading both languages. By keeping them separate, people can make their own choice of what language to read, by subscribing to either one or both of the feeds.
Recently tagged "china nptech"
Hi Todd, My name is Elliot; I
Hi Todd,
My name is Elliot; I work at TechSoup Global in San Francisco. Eric Yin at e-Causes told me about your blog, and I've been enjoying it ever since.
I'm excited to see what you're trying to do with the Delicious tags. It would be fantastic to see the tag become as ubiquitous in China as nptech is in the US and Canada.
I've emailed our Taiwan and Hong Kong partners about the tags too, so perhaps they can help publicize them further.
If your readers are curious to know more about the history of the nptech tag and how people use it to share resources, here's a good blog post about it:
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/01/nptech_tag_disc.html
Best regards,
Elliot
That's great! It would be
That's great! It would be wonderful to have folk in Taiwan and HK participating too.