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Pulling Facebook Content Into Your Netvibes Dashboard

Written by Matt on September 20, 2010 — 6 Comments

Facebook is like a walled garden. Their flip flopping on privacy issues and public access makes it so RSS feeds, which are by nature public, not so readily available. Unfortunately, Netvibes relies on RSS to tell us when people are talking about our organization. There are still a couple ways to get Facebook information into […]

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Looking at Communications Tools as Organizational Processes

Written by Matt on September 9, 2010 — 3 Comments

We spend a lot of time on this blog and on the interwebs in general talking about the Good that software tools can do for an organization. Whether it’s a tool that makes collaborative editing easier or a piece of code that automates a repetitive task, software has the possibility to be a big value-add […]

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2010 Nonprofit Software Development Summit Dates Announced

Written by Matt on August 19, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Have you heard of Aspiration‘s Nonprofit Software Development Summit? It is THE place to connect with other people just like you who care about software and technology in the nonprofit sector. Let me emphasize that. Connect. With PEOPLE. This is not the place to sit down in a room and listen to a keynoter talk […]

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Dashboarding Guide from Netvibes

Written by Matt on August 12, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Our favorite dashboarding tool Netvibes has put together a Dashboarding Guide that inventories Monitoring and Analytics tools available to track your presence online (similar to putting together a Social Source Commons Toolbox). It’s nice to have a document describing these tools while explaining their individual integration options with Netvibes. Tools are categorized by “Monitoring”, “Listening” […]

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Social Media Litter vs. Valid Content

Written by Matt on July 28, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Recently, Allyson Kapin of FrogLoop posted a blog post on social media contests: Online Fundraising Contests: Effective or Digital Litter. I thought this was pretty intriguing because it brought up the question of what is valid content in social media, anyway? Trashy Cat photo courtesy of funadium “Litter”, as I imagine it in the social […]

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What Would YOUR TechFinder Look Like?

Written by Matt on July 22, 2010 — Leave a Comment

As TechSoup Global retires TechFinder.org, Aspiration is delighted to be working with them to transition the TechFinder data to a new home, and excited to hear from you about what is most needed in terms of a resource directory for nonprofit technology services. As our good readers (hopefully) know, Social Source Commons and Answr platforms […]

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What’s Your Desert Island Tool?

Written by Matt on July 16, 2010 — 2 Comments

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 […]

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Tools for Social Change

Written by Matt on June 24, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Aspiration (mama org to Social Source Commons) is spending the week here in Detroit, MI for the 2010 United States Social Forum. USSF is a gathering place for activists, non-profits and people concerned with social justice and inequality in society. There’s an incredible number of people here (~20,000) and Aspiration is working with the Tor […]

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Toolbox for Smaller Nonprofit Organizations

Written by Matt on May 27, 2010 — 3 Comments

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 […]

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Facebook Privacy Toolbox

Written by Matt on May 19, 2010 — 3 Comments

Hi everyone, I just wanted to post a quick note for you all to check out the awesome Facebook Privacy Toolbox that Kathryn Benedicto put together to help people like yourselves to navigate Facebook‘s every-changing privacy invasion settings. Check out the tools below to protect yourself and regain some kind of semblance of security from […]

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