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How Can We Make SSC Toolboxes More Valuable for You?yl7pam53da57mtxhin3rv0i0rgt5amlyHow Can We Make SSC Toolboxes More Valuable for You?">How Can We Make SSC Toolboxes More Valuable for You?4i4tl6g7vriclx3tghiwuhc86lx62zuxHow Can We Make SSC Toolboxes More Valuable for You?

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Toolboxes on Social Source Commons are great. We love them. Users love them. They’re selling out shows on Wednesday nights. Amazing right? Well, I know that I’ve always had tweaks and changes that I’d like to make to the toolbox interface and I’m thinking that beautiful users like yourself might [...]

Matt’s Tools for Putting Together an HTML Email Newsletter">Matt’s Tools for Putting Together an HTML Email Newsletter

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Continuing the email newsletter support that started with Why HTML Email Newsletter Editors Suck, I put together a toolbox on Social Source Commons of tools that I use at Aspiration to create our HTML email newsletters.qjdw5kr34p7sgeyrkmxvku9ftv7ji22y The Custom Description Text of each tool tells you a little bit about why [...]

Why Would Anyone Use That?rbm4yjm9k6iulw9gey9w5l3mbcnemql3Why Would Anyone Use That?">Why Would Anyone Use That?nk5vm1nxotxttmvppbjcqnajof5r271fWhy Would Anyone Use That?

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: You’re creating ANOTHER social network?? Photo courtesy of doctabused9mldkdygpf48nbhz52pailphe9m0r Here at Social Source Commons we see a lot of tools. Many of them are flash-in-the-pan or sputter out fast. What’s the problem? Organizations create tools and websites that no one uses. They tend to think in terms of the features [...]

Add Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Accounts to Your SSC Profile92lqvd2fs4h4rehuqhy0273e0zvgmuplAdd Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Accounts to Your SSC Profile">Add Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Accounts to Your SSC Profilewfymzecutljogg0ggkcku51b298i2cjpAdd Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Accounts to Your SSC Profile

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Hi all you Social Source Commons users out there! Just a quick note to say that we’ve added a little piece of new functionality that gives you more ways to connect to the SSC community. You can now add your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to your SSC Profile.0d3mzzetb0z8qts30xuk199ogyoyd2a4 To [...]

Skype Recording Toolsy38mn2fhotacj74o0xhlwblht101666uSkype Recording Tools">Skype Recording Tools6phhk9tr4kewfwmorbh4e6602916x5etSkype Recording Tools

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page.8omx3q3fji9t7mldnuhfve88zkbl6nf5 As a nonprofit tool, Skype is in a lot of organizations’ back pockets. Easy international (and domestic) calling, low rates and a simple interface make it a great communications tool. One glaring hole was the [...]

Who Owns Your Hosted Data Destiny?4b1cx49e3pp25mfj26wl02uyxy8zefn8Who Owns Your Hosted Data Destiny?">Who Owns Your Hosted Data Destiny?ymd4d19u39qatxzudfccx0a0cbkjedx2Who Owns Your Hosted Data Destiny?

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Delicious’ Future isulgt776gveu32zuq8dd0gfor4flbxcci DEAD!!!8k8ls3n08dmt7z4ki1h728j0acpimyql Uncertainzhbpb8hdwefo91vdyzskqvn6oqzwev84 As you probably have heard, an internal strategy slide from Yahoo was made public over everyone’s favorite secret-killer, Twitter. It basically showed social bookmarking site Delicious listed under a “Sunsetting” heading which many assumed to mean that Yahoo was killing off Delicous. The leaked photo [...]

SSC Facebook: Marcia Marcia Marcia, etc.">SSC Facebook: Marcia Marcia Marcia, etc.

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: With all of this talk about channels, focuses (foci) and conversation, the elephant in the room is the Social Source Commons Facebook page. Kind of the Jan Brady compared to the Marcia that is the Aspiration Facebook page, our SSC Facebook page just doesn’t get much play. While the Aspiration [...]

What Do You Wish You Had Known About Email Blasting Tools?sqwulc1ng713o8ahdlvzpxj99mwx4h6nWhat Do You Wish You Had Known About Email Blasting Tools?">What Do You Wish You Had Known About Email Blasting Tools?qan3ufmzdj2u27to8ow8vsmgvgd3febwWhat Do You Wish You Had Known About Email Blasting Tools?

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page.psj37i1248w67gfljide4otqjj4xsng7 The Backgroundjxin1aytp070y55918rqi7zhmckec0sl Stop. Put down the Outlook. Emailing a billion people (or just 25 or so) through your Outlook BCC line can put you on a spam list faster than a whozeewhatsit flegs a bongersnaf. [...]

Dearest NULLm4mpcu1mkczj8q0d1ys5gpavw1i0r2c4Dearest NULL">Dearest NULLcurtqhvuuhhys2j50ze2xyfrjej9vt8xDearest NULL

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: In a pretty embarrassing snafoo (snafu?), our Desert Island Tool Email Blast, sent through Vertical Response, addressed many of our members as “NULL” rather than “Friend.”xwu7atfctnmybwoxn2ngrecclykg4qfr This, of course, is a fail for mail merge, or when information from an address book (in our case, SSC users’ first names) is [...]

What’s Your Desert Island Tool?">What’s Your Desert Island Tool?

(English → हिन्दी) View originalTranslators: Those working in nonprofits and other NGOs use a ton of software everyday. Just look at the New Tools coming into Social Source Commons! I’ll give you a nickel if you’ve heard of half of ‘em. A NICKEL.lyzmkhbdpcgol7bax0o140uxei7j73yi Nonprofit professionals are working in an world of extremely diverse topic areas [...]

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