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.

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.

The toolbox is an example of the different online tools I use to build a website for your nonprofit or community based organization if you need a basic web presence on a small budget. Please add any recommendations.

Livejournal / Blogger / Wordpress Client for Firefox.

Tools designed to help organizations and individuals blog more effectively

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.

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.

Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks.

Wordpress plugin to host surveys on your own site

This plugin is used to be able to create a page on any Wordpress web site containing a list of all of link categories defined inside of the Links section of the Wordpress administration, along with all links defined in these categories. Provides a range of display, feed and other options.

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

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

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

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.

This plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

Interactive social media web toolbar that allows integration of many popular web applications directly into web sites.

A client for WordPress blogs, which allows post creation and editing, and comment viewing, replying and moderation. Supports multiple blogs, both WordPress-hosted (wordpress.com) and self-hosted.

A PDA friendly interface for your blog.

A simple way to add a default thumbnail to your post. This plugin uses the default wordpress image upload. Choose from all thumbnails in the edit post view.

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

Premium wordpress and buddypress themes and plugins with great support. Relatively affordable, quality product for the nonprofit, student association, school, business or other organization looking to manage its own site and/or online community.

WPMU DEV is used by Etsy, Stanford U, Cornell U, CNET, edublogs, and others.