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Surveying CTC VISTA Software Tools
One of the projects that we’re implementing here at SSC is a survey of Americorps CTC VISTAs such as myself. Every CTC VISTA is placed at a nonprofit somewhere in the United States. Our roles center on capacity building for our organizations and behind the scenes, sustainable contributions to their goal. The hope is that […]
Bringing More Value to the SSC Community
We here at Aspiration are constantly trying to offer greater value in the Social Source Commons for our users. We realize that our community of users is the most important part of this undertaking and we’re starting to form some new Community Engagement goals to address the subject of you, the users. Here’s a quick […]
Howdy from Matt
I just wanted to throw out a quick Hello to all you SSC blog readers out there. I’m really looking forward to working with Aspiration and the Social Source Commons as a CTC VISTA and I hope that you will all feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns or contributions. Thanks! Matt
Aspiration Welcomes Matt Garcia as Social Source Commons Community Manager
Matt Garcia joins Aspiration as Community Manager for our Social Source Commons platform. Matt will maintain the SSC blog, engage users to learn how we can enhance the system to better serve their needs, and oversee community outreach for the project, working with the rest of the team to make SSC a more valuable resource […]
Mapping Nonprofit Project Management Tools
Aspiration and Idealware co-organized the first-ever Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects gathering in New York on January 10th and 11th, 2008. We created an SSC toolbox containing all the project management tools which participants mapped out and tagged using state-of-the art sticky-note technology at the event. You can also see notes from all the sessions on […]
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 […]
Social Source Commons Podcast on NetSquared
Britt Bravo recently interviewed Aspiration’s Allen Gunn about Social Source Commons, and posted the discussion as a podcast on the NetSquared site. Thanks Britt!
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 […]
A note about new account registrations
This is just a quick not to clarify the process for new account registrations. The account creation process is not automated. Instead, what happens is that an email is sent to me requesting a new account, and I set up the new account as soon as I see the email. I then email the person […]
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