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Category Archives: Toolboxes

Ramping up a New Hire with Our Nonprofit Tech

New Hire = Unicorns & Technological Infrastructure Aspiration recently had the pleasure of welcoming a new employee, Misty Avila! This is awesome, we love her and everyone is holding hands in the unicorn and rainbow fields. Flash to the next day when Matt has to ramp her up to Aspiration’s technology practices. As you may […]

Skype Recording Tools

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. 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 fact that there is no […]

Who Owns Your Hosted Data Destiny?

Delicious’ Future is DEAD!!! Uncertain 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 immediately caused an uproar on […]

What Do You Wish You Had Known About Email Blasting Tools?

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. The Background 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. You heard me. But seriously […]

What’s Your Desert Island Tool?

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. Nonprofit professionals are working in an world of extremely diverse topic areas and campaigns which means that […]

Toolbox for Smaller Nonprofit Organizations

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. Recently, Charise Van Liew of fuseDC put together a toolbox entitled Toolbox for Smaller Nonprofit Organizations that was filled with tools that fuseDC recommends to, you guessed it, smaller nonprofits. fuseDC describes their organization as: fuseDC is a cost-free, interactive […]

A Toolbox of Free and Open Source Web Design Apps

Embedded below is a toolbox that I put together on Social Source Commons of tools that I use when working on websites that Aspiration manages (Aspiration, Social Source Commons, SSC Blog & Answr). I wanted to show you how easy it is to create a narrative with a toolbox. First Sign In, then go to […]

Tools to Mobilize Knowledge

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. There is so much information related to social justice and nonprofit organizations floating around the internet just waiting to be plucked from research obscurity and be used by an organization that can affect real lives. BUT who’s going to pull […]

Digital Asset Management Platforms

Photo Pile Image courtesy of Orin Zebest First of all, if you aren’t receiving the NTEN Discuss newsletter as a nonprofit techie, then you should get on that asap. Great conversations and resources from people that know exactly what it’s like to be the accidental techie at a nonprofit organization. Many times, someone will ask […]

Community Platforms for Nonprofit Orgs

Community Platform photo courtesy of paulsynnott Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. Recently, on the NTEN Discuss List, someone posted a question, looking for platforms that could work as community sites for members to chat, share documents, and just generally connect. This sparked a variety of […]

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