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“Specific Use Case Tools” or “How I Subtitled My Video While Locating Food Pantries”
As a website that helps nonprofits find software tools to help them do the work that makes the world a better place, there are some things that most nonprofits need or at least get a lot of use from. Things like CRMs, CMSes (plural rule, anybody?) and accounting software. However, at the same time, there […]
Webinar Tools Toolbox
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. Our very own intern Lukas Mericle recently put together a toolbox of Webinar Tools based on an NTEN Discussion thread. The thing about webinars is that they can be as boring as a race between a rock and a piece […]
Social Media Tracking Toolbox
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. As social media tools and services continue to pop up every other day, it can become a lot of work just keeping up with what people are saying about your nonprofit. Many people have offered lists, solutions and techniques for […]
Tool Tidbits 07.30.09
Facebook Redmine Basecamp Trac Intervals Loop11 Treejack Hello, SSC-ers! I thought you might be interested in a few posts about various tool-related topics. Let the tool education begin! Social Network Users Double in US Mashable‘s Adam Ostrow looks at Foster Research’s new report about American online behavior. About 1/3 of Americans visit social networks like […]
2 New Tools and a Toolbox on SSC
As we get more and more great New Tools added to Social Source Commons, we like to shout them out and see what our illustrious users think. So take a gander and let us know what tools are lighting up YOUR toolbox. Collabtive is a hosted, project management tool that is presented as an open […]
Open Translation Tools
Featured FLOSS Tools for Translation OmegaT Jubler Moses Pootle Be sure to check out the SSC Open Translation Toolbox for more great open source tools used for translation! I just got back into the Bay from beautiful Amsterdam as part of Aspiration‘s Open Translation Tools 2009 Conference and book sprint. “Open Translation” refers to using […]
A Few Down the Pipe…
I just wanted to take a few minutes and show you a few cool tools that have been making their way through the pipelines at Social Source Commons. First up we have spellr.us, a hosted tool that checks websites for spelling errors. It doesn’t just sweep the front page, either. spellr.us looks through at least […]
Facebook vs. Twitter for Nonprofits
In the social media world, arguably the two highest profile tools are Facebook and Twitter. Both have become powerful tools for nonprofits not only for fundraising, but also for posting relevant news and connecting to groups of people otherwise unreached. However, while the two are often used together in the same sentence, Twitter and Facebook […]
Social Media Listening
At Social Source Commons, we’ve begun to kick up our Social Media presence. This means, among other things, dipping our collective toe into Twitter with SSC_Tweets and working on becoming more active in the NPTech blogging community. Anyone working in nonprofit social media (or social media in general) can tell you that the trick to […]