Social Source Commons

Matt Garcia's Toolboxes

• 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  This is a collection of software tools represented by participants and/or otherwise used at the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA.

  You can review the Agenda and session notes, as well as event pictures, Tweets from the event and the legendary DevSummit Group Photo.

  The 2009 DevSummit was the third annual convening of people and organizations developing software tools, web applications and other technology to support social justice causes. Bringing together a diverse range of users, developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of “developing nonprofit software”, the event provided an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity.

  The event was generously sponsored by Mozilla, Google, and CiviCRM.

  tagged: 2009, activists, change, climate, conference, crm, development, media, mobile, nonprofit, social, software
• A Few Project Management Choices created by Matt Garcia
  

  Various Project Management Tools with varying levels of complexity and flavor inspired by an NTEN discussion.

  This toolbox is a subset of the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects Toolbox created at the Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects event in January 2008.

  tagged: basecamp, central, collaboration, desktop, dream, factory, gantt, ganttproject, management, microsoft, NTEN, open, project, Shared, together, workbench, working, zoho
• Bookmarking Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  These tools allow you to bookmark websites and content around the web to access from where-ever.

  This toolbox inspired by 10 Alternatives to Delicious and the "death" of Delicious

  How to Export Your Delicious Bookmarks

  Know another? Add it!

  Have an opinion? Tell Us! Change the description in the toolbox!

  tagged: antisocial, bookmarks, delicious, for, later, save, social
• Circumvention Tools created by iammatthew2
  

  A collection of Anti-Censorship Tools that allow you to keep your privacy, and get around settings that restrict what you can see online.

  tagged: blocked, censor, circumvention, firewalls, proxies, proxy
• Content Management Systems created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools designed to organize and manage digital content

  tagged: content, design, digital, manage, management, media, organize, publishing, system, web
• CTC VISTA Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A sampling of tools that help CTC VISTAs get their work done.

  tagged: america, Americorps, community, CTC, in, nonprofit, service, technology, to, vista, volunteers
• Desert Island Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools that SSC Users would choose as the one tool they could have on a desert island. The tool that gets you through the day. The tool that some would say is your soulmate.

  tagged: desert, favorite, have, important, island, most, must, one, single, tool
• Donor Databases and CRMs created by Robert Weiner
  

  Donor management software tools for nonprofits. This list came about from a 2008 NTEN customer satisfaction survey on donor databases and Idealware’s 2009 low-cost database guide. Those surveys built on earlier vendor lists and some Campbell Research customer satisfaction surveys. I kept getting requests for a comprehensive donor database list so I put them all together in one place.

  tagged: constituent, crm, development, donation, donor, fundraising, management, relationship, supporter
• eAdvocacy Blogging Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools designed to help organizations and individuals blog more effectively

  tagged: blog, blogger, blogging, bloglines, hosted, livejournal, movable, type, typepad, wordpress, writing
• Email Newsletter Toolbox created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs

  Some Simple Steps:

  • Start with a plain text editor
  • Don't switch back and forth between your blaster's HTML & WYSIWYG editors
  • Put together your content
  • Create your buttons
  • Resize your images and THEN upload them
  • Run your code through Premailer
  • Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook

  Don't forget to check out the Useful Links

  tagged: blaster, email, HTML, newsletter, wysiwyg
• Event Management Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A selection of tools to help you plan and implement your next nonprofit event. Inspired by an NTEN Discussion and A Few Good Event Registration Tools from Idealware.

  tagged: conference, event, management, meeting, payment, planning, Registration, rsvp, service, ticketing, tickets
• Google Apps created by Matt Garcia
  

  Useful, web-based services from Google

  tagged: calendar, docs, documents, gmail, google, page, sites, sketchup, spreadsheets, start, talk
• Help Desk Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A sampling of help desk tools inspired by an NTEN Discussion thread

  tagged: accessable, cerberus, desk, esupport, help, helpdesk, illient, kayako, NTEN, request, sharepoint, spiceworks, sysaid, tracker
• Learning Management Systems created by Matt Garcia
  

  A sampling of learning management system tools inspired from an NTEN discussion

  tagged: atutor, claroline, course, dokeos, elearning, joomla, kewl, learning, lms, management, Online, sakai, student, system, teacher
• Mind-Mapping Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools to help organize tasks, thoughts and sometimes even files visually so you can get them done in a logical way. An alternative to the old school "check box list" route.

  Based on an NTEN Discussion thread.

  tagged: management, map, mind, organization, organize, task, visually
• Nonprofit Intranet Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools that help Nonprofits set up and manage local networks and content.

  tagged: ab-core, asp.net, CMS, collaboration, content, database, intranet, management, Network, system
• Onboarding a New Hire created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools for getting a new hire up to speed at Aspiration

  tagged: employee, hire, new, onboarding, open, organization, source
• Open Translation Tools created by Allen Gunn
  

  This is a collection of Free and Open Source (FOSS or FLOSS) software tools that support translation and localization of software and content.

  These tools were mapped out and discussed by the participating projects at Aspiration's Open Translation Tools 2007 and Open Translation Tools 2009 events.

  Please check out the wiki and participant video!

  Tools tagged with ott07 and ott09 were represented at the respective events.

  tagged: Amsterdam, aspiration, aspirationtech, checker, Croatia, dictionary, FOSS, free, glossary, interpretation, interpreting, language, localization, machine, mediawiki, memory, open, ott07, ott09, PO, source, spell, translation, UTF8, wiki, workflow, XLIFF, Zagreb
• Penguin Day Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A sampling of open source tools highlighted at Penguin Days, including Penguin Day San Francisco

  tagged: FLOSS, FOSS, open, source
• Popular Bulk Email Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A collection of email blasting tools for organizations to send out mass-emails to their constituents. These services protect you somewhat from being labeled spam

  tagged: blast, clients, email
• Publishing Matrix Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A toolbox containing the different communication channels we use to inform our followers.

  It is based on Aspiration's Online Communications Matrix which is a grid that lays out guidelines for organizational communications.

  It's a crazy social media world out there. How is your communications process?

  tagged: blog, communications, facebook, guidelines, linkedin, matrix, process, twitter
• Secure & Private Web Browsing created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools to help protect your privacy online including tools to help stop sites from tracking your movements.

  tagged: browsing, firefox, https, privacy, safe, secure, Security, web
• Social Media Backup Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A collection of tools that help you back up the data in your social media presence.

  tagged: back, backup, data, export, facebook, management, media, social, tweets, twitter, up
• Social Media Listening created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools for monitoring social media. Whether it be your website, issues you care about or what people said about your event, these tools will help you stay on top of what people are saying. Based off a blog post by Beth Kanter.

  tagged: blogs, comments, keywords, listening, media, microblogs, monitor, social, topics, trends
• Some Essential Web 2.0 Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Web 2.0 tools every Nonprofit should consider using. From photo sharing to article aggregation, these tools may be able to help your organization get connected with a broader community.

  See anything missing? Add it!

  tagged: 2.0, collaboration, communication, contacts, friends, media, networking, networks, Shared, social, web
• Some Free and Open Source Web Design Apps created by Matt Garcia
  

  I am not a web developer/designer BUT I do dabble a lot for my job. Here are some of the tools that get me by and let me pretend I know how to hack the interwebs.

  tagged: CSS, Cyberduck, design, developer, editor, gimp, graphic, HTML, mamp, seashore, smultron, text, web
• Tools I use to Manage SSC created by Matt Garcia
  

  These are the tools that I have to use in order to be the best SSC Community Manager that there is. Whether it be updating the WordPress blog with Cyberduck or chatting on Adium about Google Analytics, these tools help my world go 'round.

  tagged: Action, Adium, basecamp, bloglines, Commons, Cyberduck, Democracy, firefox, in, management, office, open, skype, social, source, text, thunderbird, website, wordpress, wrangler
• U.S. Social Forum - People's Media Center Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  These are tools we used at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in the People's Media Center

  tagged: equality, justice, nonprofit, open, social, source
• Webinar Tools created by LukasMericle
  

  Tools for conducting seminars online. These include chat room and shared presentation tools as well as tools for conference calls and screen-sharing.
  
  This toolbox was inspired by an NTEN Discussion
  
  See anything missing? Add it!

  tagged: collaborate, conference, Online, presentation, seminar, share, sharing, symposium, webinar
• Wiki Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  A smattering of popular Wiki engines that allow you to create collaborative web pages and sites.

  Based on a list maintained by WikiMatrix.

  tagged: collaborative, content, editing, management, open, source, system, webpages, wiki, wikiengine
• WSJ Data Transparency Project Privacy Tools created by Matt Garcia
  

  Tools put together at The Wall Street Journal Data Transparency Weekend event in New York on April 13-15, 2012. These tools focus around privacy, security and data transparency.

  
  

  

  tagged: data, privacy, Security, transparency, wsjdata