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2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
This past week, Aspiration put on the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA. It was pretty incredible. 80+ people involved in social change, nonprofit tech and software development coming to one place to not just listen to a couple of keynoters speak, but to listen to each other. Thought-provoking conversation, new tool showcasing […]
Nonprofit Tech Links to Check Out
Photo courtesy of geishaboy500 As is required of every blogger from time to time, I want to push you all (or “y’all” if you prefer) to some posts that popped up in our Twitter stream. Check it: Is Your Nonprofit Too Social Media Dependent?Interesting points and questions are raised in this post from Allyson Kapin […]
Exporting & Backing Up Your Social Media Data
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. At Aspiration, we’ve been trying to smooth some of the rough edges that we have with regard to ensuring that we have our data secure. This both means having a reliable and trusted service into which we put that data […]
Online Communications Publishing Matrix Tools
We nonprofit geeks over at Aspiration, the mama organization for Social Source Commons have recently begun working in Social Media for our organization. While this new world can be big, scary, haphazard, constantly changing and full of scary critters, there is a lot of potential value that nonprofits can gain by engaging the different audiences […]
Modules for a Better World
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. I wanted you all to check out a new toolbox one of our users put together to the right. Kathryn Benedicto recently created a toolbox of Drupal modules that she finds particularly useful. What is a “module” you ask? Modules […]
Open Source GIS, Negotiating and a Mad Lady Named Mimi
Another week at Social Source Commons, another set of great tools. Here are a few of the tools that picqued my interest as I watched them roll in from the SSC New Tools RSS Feed. Have any experience with these? Why not let us know what you think? 😀 Open Simulation Platform An innovative project […]
Social Media Conversation
Image Courtesy of eye2eye on Flickr I’ve run across a few articles around the interwebs recently that I thought some of you might find interesting. They all have to do with social media best practices and taking advantage of the conversation that results from tools like Twitter and Facebook. Sometimes (read: all times) there’s a […]
Robert Weiner Talks about his Donor Databases Toolbox
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. Robert Weiner, nonprofit technology consultant, recently put together a toolbox on Social Source Commons of Donor Databases and I was able to steal a few minutes of his time to get his opinion on donor databases for nonprofits. Check it […]
Michelle Murrain talks about her OpenIssue Toolbox
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. The other day, I sat down with Michelle Murrain, an SSC user who put together the OpenIssue Tools Toolbox (seen at right), to chat about what she does, how she uses SSC and why Redmine can convert any Basecamp user […]
SSC Tool Comments
We all love to add tools to Social Source Commons and now we know that we can edit our toolbox tool descriptions so that they tell a specific story. But did you know that you can also leave your thoughts about a tool on its individual tool listing? Yes! Yes, you can. Drum roll, please. […]