Social Source Commons

Full featured CMS system

Light and practical CMS

Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is the digital hub that lets you download and install every Adobe Creative Suite® 6 application; access online services for file sharing, collaboration, and publishing; and benefit from new apps and features as soon as they're released — giving you the freedom to create anything you can imagine.

Open Source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

A modular, open source, content management system for creating and administering websites without the requirement of much technical expertise.

Bricolage is a content management system geared towards organizations with a content workflow beyond simply "write then post".

Advanced features include configurable workflows, customizable document types, multisite management capabilities, and comprehensive Perl- and PHP-based templating support, Bricolage has been designed to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations.

Bricolage is designed to run independent of a web server and publish to a webserver.

Comprehensive, easy-to-use software for managing non-profits and progressive campaigns.

Suite of online organizational management tools and networking services.

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Hosted service of pre-configured Drupal and CiviCRM (free and low monthly fee versions)

Hosted content-management solution.

Deliver More Mission.
You get out of bed every day to change lives in a world of unlimited need, scarce resources and growing expectations. At CTK, we get out of bed every day to help nonprofits serve more people with every hour, program and dollar. Serving more than 150,000 users in 18,000 organizations over the course of 15+ years, we believe powerful yet easy-to-use web-based software should be within everyone's reach – empowering directors, staff and stakeholders to track what matters, collaborate with ease and prove every impact.

Deki Wiki is a free open source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises.

Docebo is an e-Learning platform (LMS and LCMS) that supports 12 languages, is compliant to the SCORM 1.2 standard, and different didactic models. Including: Blended, Self-Directed, Collaborative and even Social Learning through Chat, Wiki, Forums etc.

Dokeos is a learning management system used in more than 600 companies and public administrations to manage e-learning and blended learning programmes.

Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software tool whose "purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless of their technical skills."

Built on the popular Drupal CMS system, DrupalEd can be used as an informal and/or formal learning site where students, teachers, classes etc have comparable and/or hierarchical permissions.

Social Solutions provides performance management software and related services to nonprofits organizations.

Founded in 2000 by human services professionals, our ETO (Efforts to Outcomes) software and services give organizations a clear picture of which efforts are having the greatest impact on the social issues they strive to address.

With this knowledge, organizations can reinforce what's working, adjust what isn't, and more easily report quantified successes to key stakeholders.

In Aspiration's travels around the nonprofit software ecosystem, these are the free and open source platforms that most consistently deliver successful solutions for web publishing needs.

At present, it's "The Big 4". We welcome your suggestions on what else should be on this list.

An true web-based enterprise-wide case, clinical and billing and claims management software suite, designed for human service organizations.

By installing GetPaid, you can take credit card payments on your site, organize an online store, accept donations, calculate and charge shipping, and manage orders and their processing. It is Open Source, easy to setup and install, and supported by a commercial and user community so you can quickly start generating revenue from your site while knowing there are ongoing improvements and support for the site. For developers, it is a flexible system that can be customized and extended for particular business processes using the component architecture. GetPaid is an addon product for the Plone content management system.

Site for creating and sharing a group website.

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System for building and maintaining dynamic web sites.

ImpressCMS is designed for a wide range of users, from business to community users, from large enterprises to people who want a simple, easy to use blogging tool.

Macintosh website creation software.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

LeapSeed is an application development framework and content management system used to quickly create custom database applications, data-aware websites, and process-driven solutions.

Open Source Content Management System

Ruby on Rails based blog tools with nice assets/images management

MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

Movable Type is a widely used blogging platform among professional bloggers, small businesses, web designers, and educational and nonprofit institutions. A good general blogging tool.

Designed by newsroom experts, Newscoop is a content management system (CMS) that powers professional newspapers and magazines worldwide. The demands of modern journalism are met with intuitive interfaces, flexible publishing, multilinguality, geolocation tools, social media integration and powerful templates compatible with anything from HTML5 to mobile.

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

A free and open source PHP based blogging script.

An open source content management system from Microsoft focusing on developers who need to create CMS applications using Oxite as a base.

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System or content management system. The goal of PHP-Nuke is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with users system.

A powerful platform for content, community and collaboration websites

PloneGlossary is a Plone content type that allows you to manage your own glossaries, propose definitions and search in one or more glossaries. Has many applications for definitions, lists with descriptions, etc.

Commercial open source workflow and business process management software suite that allows organizations to automate processes across various systems including finance, HR and operations. ProcessMaker is an entirely web-based, AJAX-enabled application that is built on the LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack.

Ruby on Rails based Content Management System (CMS)

Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.

Web-based Case Management software

SilverStripe is an opensource content management system (CMS) based on PHP.

Content management system.

Free publishing system

Symphony is a web publishing system for web developers in XML and XSLT. It is customisable and flexible and can be used for anything from a publishing environment to organising your website's url structure.

A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs.

commercial cms.

free/open source wiki supporting not only text and links but more structured data. Users can evolve the data structure over time through their regular use.

Website Baker is a PHP-based content management system for creating websites.

WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security.

Flexible open-source content management and blogging software with an active user and developer community and a wide variety of plug-ins or extensions available.

Recommended plugins and other tools for creating and maintaining a site with WordPress.

Most of these tools were used to create & manage fusedc.org, a volunteer-run resource website for nonprofit social justice professionals with a focus on the DC community.

WPML is a WordPress plugin that can turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system.

XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS can be used for developing small to large dynamic community websites.