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Don’t Mind the Dust…
Hi everyone, we’re going to be tweaking the template here at the Social Source Commons Blog so don’t worry if things start looking a little funky today. We should be all hunky dorey by this afternoon! Thanks! -Matt (Your SSC Community Manager and sometimes Template Editor)
Concrete 5
Concrete 5 Website Baker Jaws Concrete 5 is a relatively new open source Content Management System designed for easy website development. While Drupal, Joomla and Plone are familiar names to many in nonprofit tech, Concrete 5 may sound like a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie. The trouble is I haven’t heard much about it, but […]
Green Nonprofit Technology
A couple of weeks ago, Aspiration (SSC’s mama organization) held the 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit which basically brought over a hundred nonprofit techie geeks together in Oakland, CA to hash out the current state of affairs with regard to, you guessed it, nonprofit software development. So many people and organizations were represented, I really […]
Wiki Tools!
Hey, Marc Laporte and the good folks at TikiWiki are keeping a list called the “Wiki Landscape” that pulls together information on the most popular Wiki engines. According to (who else?) Wikipedia, a wiki “is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using […]
Nonprofit Twitter Tools
Twitter is everywhere these days. If you aren’t Twittering away your life, you can rest assured that your mailman, nephew and boss are. Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a mini-blogging tool that allows you to post small status updates that are no more than 140 characters long. Users can get minute by minute updates on […]
Drupal Camp
Over the weekend, I went to Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADcamp) and dug into another CMS. Drupal, like Joomla!, is an open source Content Management System that allows you to create websites through content organization and management. In Drupal, you add “nodes” (pieces of content) to a basic framework to flesh out your website. You […]
Embedding an SSC Toolbox on Your Own Web Page
Did you know that you can embed any SSC Community Toolbox right into another web page? It’s simple and perfect for when you want to show the contents of a toolbox right within your own web page rather than linking to Social Source Commons. Let’s check out how it’s done: I want to embed Robert […]
CTC VISTA Toolbox Knowledge
A little while back, I asked my fellow CTC VISTAs what software tools they were using to get an idea about their nonprofit tool use. I received great feedback and took it all to create the CTC VISTA Tools Toolbox on Social Source Commons. After talking to a few VISTAs, I thought I’d share with […]
Joomla! Day!
Over the weekend, on Saturday, I was lucky enough to take part in the 2nd annual Bay Area Joomla! Day at Google in Mountain View, CA. For those of you who aren’t in the know, Joomla! is a free and open-source Content Management System (CMS). CMS’s are designed to enable those who have no coding […]
How I Created the “CTC VISTA Tools” Toolbox
Creating a Community Toolbox on Social Source Commons is one of the great ways in which users can become actively involved with the site. Toolboxes are created in order to organize the tools that you use into understandable and useful collections. When your account is first created, you have your “Personal Toolbox”, which is intended […]
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