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Category Archives: Toolboxes

Bandwidth Management for Events

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. Anyone who has been to a large event full of people with laptops has experienced that all-too-familiar scenario: Sitting in chair with laptop, about to send that tweet of Elmo doing the Single Ladies dance and *POOF* your internet connection […]

Essential FOSS Content Management Systems

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. As many people will tell you, in the nonprofit world, the big Content Management Systems in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world are Plone WordPress Joomla Drupal While every Plone evangelist and WordPress advocate can tell you why […]

Getting Around The Man and Keeping Your Privacy Online

Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see <a href=”http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1963″ mce_href=”http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1963″>the toolbox page</a>. In light of the recent Facebook privacy settings drama, I thought that this would be a good time to evaluate what control you (or others) have on your online presence. Our very own intern Matthew put together a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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