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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 […]

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 […]

Fun with SSC Toolboxes

We all know that on Social Source Commons it’s super simple to create a toolbox by clicking on “Create toolbox” in the green “My Toolboxes” sidebar in the “My Toolboxes” tab. I mean, just look at all the Community Toolboxes SSC users have created! But you may not have realized some of the different things […]

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 […]

SSC’s Need for Speed

Website speed is one of the most important aspects of a user’s browsing experience. With high-speed internet, we expect pages to load instantly every time. So you can imagine our frustration when Social Source Commons began to drag. Because we constantly want to be improving the SSC experience for our users, we decided to switch […]

Feeds

We all know that you can pull feeds from Social Source Commons. Through RSS, you can be automatically notified for all sorts of changes from new users to new toolboxes. RSS feeds are a great way to get a wide range of updates from all over the internet together in one place. Similar to the […]

Nonprofit Software Searching Frustration

Searching for a software tool can sometimes be the hardest part about getting a specific task done. As a nonprofit, tight budgets, multi-tasking and limited time make it so that when you want to find a new software tool, you just want to find something that works right then. But, no, my nonprofit friend. This […]

SSC Surpasses 1900 Tools!

Thanks to great contributions by community members, the SSC tool count marches upward and onward! We’ve gotten great additions recently from a number of SSC users, including: Rolf, who created a toolbox called Thunderbird as RSS Reader, detailing the collection of plugins and tools he uses to manage his RSS feeds; Lena, who added CopyWrite […]

Social Source Commons Podcast on NetSquared

Britt Bravo recently interviewed Aspiration’s Allen Gunn about Social Source Commons, and posted the discussion as a podcast on the NetSquared site. Thanks Britt!

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