Social Source Commons

Akismet is a spam management tool for your blog. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether or not it is spam.

The Activist Mobilization Platform is a CMS bundled with a large number of Activist Tools.

Suite of tools for managing websites and blogs.

BlogBackupr is a free, hosted tool for backing up your blog content including posts and media. It supports any blog platform that uses an RSS feed and also has the option of auto-restore.

Blogdigger Groups allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs

The Bloglines Browser Plug-In will enable you to use the Bloglines RSS aggregator from your browser and subscribe to RSS feeds with one click.

A trending tool, BlogPulse allows one to search the blogosphere and see trends related to keywords, ratings and much more information.

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

This plugin shows a 'Custom Coming Soon' page to all users who are not logged in however, the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.

Live blogging tool with interactive features for real-time audience engagement. Commentary publishes like instant messages, and you can drop in polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips. Take comments and questions from readers with control over what gets published.

Disqus is a comment system that replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.

e107 is a CMS written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

Free online blog service.

Each WordPress theme comes expertly coded in valid XHTML and CSS, and all are made compatible with the latest version of WordPress. All sidebars are made widget ready. Good support forum.

Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Does not require JavaScript.

RSS aggregator

Hosted RSS reader.

Web browzer branch of mozilla with blogging and tagging imbedded

Blog search engine.

Web-based suite of tools such as an RSS reader, bookmarking service, and personal wikis.

Web-based RSS readers.

invisiblog.com lets you publish a weblog using GPG and the Mixmaster anonymous remailer network. You don't ever have to reveal your identity

Hosted community blogging service.

The MailChimp plugin allows you to easily setup a Subscribe box for your MailChimp list

A user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access. A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS.

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.

Opensource web publishing platform.

Web-based rss aggregation.

News Alloy is a free Web Based Feed Reader

Hosted RSS reader.

Allow Your blog Users to Vote on Content and Get Recommendations

Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.

Pligg is a PHP/MySQL CMS with a Web 2.0 feature set allowing users to easily create digg-type websites with an integrated user voting system.

Plurk is an alternate blogging platform, describing itself as "a social journal for your life." which enables users to share their life easily with friends, family and fans.

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?

Blog editor and blogging tools.

Provides a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site

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

Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you'd like.

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Also available for Blogger and other platforms.

Blog search engine

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.

This plugin themes the WordPress login, registration and forgot password pages according to your current theme. It replaces the wp-login.php file by using a page template from your theme. Also includes a widget for sidebar login.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. It is actively developed by a very large international community. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge base, intranets, and extranets.

Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box", arguably more than any other Open Source Web Application. Highly configurable and modular, all features are optional and administered via a web-based interface.

Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers (form generator), a links directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile version, RSS feeds, category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and much, much more.

Online rss aggregator

An application that aims to evolve existing functionality of Twitter by breaking down Twitter feeds into more manageable bite sized pieces. Track Twitter feeds and social media activity.

Twitter Mosaic allows you to generate html code of your Twitter Followers or Friends that you can then embed on a blog or Web site.

Publishes blog feeds on Twitter and Facebook

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

Protection from comment spam on TypePad blogs.

WhatCounts is an email marketing firm - providing cutting-edge publishing technology through ASP, Appliance, Managed Enterprise, and Agency solutions.

This WordPress plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on.

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application to publish content to your blog.

Allows users to select any of the cause-oriented badges appearing on the Word of Blog site and display them on a blog.

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.

Wordpress designed for multi-user

Displays the WordPress.com stats graph, your traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your Dashboard.

XOOPS Cube is a a free Open Source Web Application Platform released under BSD license and Base Legacy modules released under GPL license: user and groups management, message, search, forums, social news, rss, gallery, blog, flat data and contact forms and much more plug-ins.

The XOOPS Cube Project is friendly managed, maintained, developed and supported by a volunteer group to expand your network, vision, creativity and skills.

Enhance your blog while you write. Automatic images, tags, links and articles suggestions. Supports all major blogging platforms.