Category Archives: Tools
Open Translation Tools
Featured FLOSS Tools for Translation OmegaT Jubler Moses Pootle Be sure to check out the SSC Open Translation Toolbox for more great open source tools used for translation! I just got back into the Bay from beautiful Amsterdam as part of Aspiration‘s Open Translation Tools 2009 Conference and book sprint. “Open Translation” refers to using […]
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 […]
A Couple Great Posts about Tools
With all of the news of the not-so-super economy and the impending zombie revolution, Social Source Commons users can probably use any advice that they can get about selecting the right software tools for their nonprofit. A couple of posts by some great NPTech-ers caught my eye and I wanted to push them your way: […]
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 […]
Tools from the eAdvocacy Jamboree
Friday concluded the eAdvocacy Jamboree, and we had a killer time, that was also very informative. If you couldn’t make it, I compiled a list of tools that were discussed during the Jamboree, and I’ll be making a Community Toolbox to go along with it shortly. If you were at the Jamboree, and noticed that […]
Blogging from the eAdvocacy Jamboree
This week, Aspiration is facilitating the eAdvocacy Jamboree. It’s the fourth part in a series of Aspiration events in which we are attempting to communicate the best practices of online advocacy to nonprofits and political change organizations. Looking at this from a Social Source Commons perspective, I thought I would make a few posts about […]
How did I miss that?
Every so often I’ll come across a tool that is not in SSC and I’ll wonder how, with over 1600 tools in our database, it could possibly have been overlooked. A few months ago I had one of these moments with Microsoft Word, which was not in the database even though we had every other […]
How I Decide Whether to Enter a New Tool Into SSC
Since coming to Aspiration, a large portion of my job has been spent filling out the database of tools that we have on SSC. Mostly, this is done by me going through a series of blogs and bookmarking sites to see if there if there are any interesting new tools or information about existing tools […]
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