Category Archives: Tools
Facebook Causes Drama
I recently set up a Facebook Cause for Aspiration, the mama org of Social Source Commons. It was simple and in only a few minutes I had created an Aspiration Cause that I could use to find supporters and receive donations. My motivation wasn’t to start the grand “Help Aspiration Save the World!” fundraising campaign […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blogs + Social Media = ? (Blog Posts to Check Out)
One thing that I’m interested in (along with 90% of the nonprofit world) is the connection and potential return on investment between social media and the organization. A few great blog posts have been floating around out there that I thought I should share for those of you looking into the same issues as myself. […]
Photos for Nonprofits
Talking to a small nonprofit looking to get started on Social Media recently, the executive director told me that she’s trying her hardest to get comfortable with Flickr because she knew that it was the place for photos and social networking. Immediately, I thought to myself: “Wait. Is it?” It seems that more and more […]
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 […]
Nonprofit Social Media: Audience Assessment
Photo courtesy of dunechaser Recently, I was talking to a few members of a nonprofit who were frustrated with their higher-ups who were pushing major projects on Facebook without having a clear understanding of what they were using Facebook for in the first place. Somewhat ironically, by posting the question to Aspiration’s Facebook Wall, we […]
2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
This past week, Aspiration put on the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA. It was pretty incredible. 80+ people involved in social change, nonprofit tech and software development coming to one place to not just listen to a couple of keynoters speak, but to listen to each other. Thought-provoking conversation, new tool showcasing […]
Nonprofit Tech Links to Check Out
Photo courtesy of geishaboy500 As is required of every blogger from time to time, I want to push you all (or “y’all” if you prefer) to some posts that popped up in our Twitter stream. Check it: Is Your Nonprofit Too Social Media Dependent?Interesting points and questions are raised in this post from Allyson Kapin […]
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