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Drupal Camp
Over the weekend, I went to Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADcamp) and dug into another CMS. Drupal, like Joomla!, is an open source Content Management System that allows you to create websites through...
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Nonprofit Twitter Tools
Twitter is everywhere these days. If you aren’t Twittering away your life, you can rest assured that your mailman, nephew and boss are. Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a mini-blogging tool that allows...
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Hey, Marc Laporte and the good folks at TikiWiki are keeping a list called the “Wiki Landscape” that pulls together information on the most popular Wiki engines. According to (who else?) Wikipedia, a...
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Green Nonprofit Technology
A couple of weeks ago, Aspiration (SSC’s mama organization) held the 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit which basically brought over a hundred nonprofit techie geeks together in Oakland, CA to...
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Concrete 5
Concrete 5 Website Baker Jaws Concrete 5 is a relatively new open source Content Management System designed for easy website development. While Drupal, Joomla and Plone are familiar names to many in...
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Don’t Mind the Dust…
Hi everyone, we’re going to be tweaking the template here at the Social Source Commons Blog so don’t worry if things start looking a little funky today. We should be all hunky dorey by this afternoon!...
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It’s Twitter Time
With all of our talk about Twitter, we’ve decided to join the 21st century and start up a little feed for ourselves. You can now follow Social Source Commons at http://www.twitter.com/SSC_Tweets. All...
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Shout-Out to DigiActive
A couple of days ago, (April 10, 2009 at 12:22am to be exact) Frederick Noronha posted a great little peek at Social Source Commons on DigiActive. DigiActive is “…dedicated to helping grassroots...
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Online Accounts Inventory: When Storing It in Your Head No Longer Works
When I moved recently, I realized just how many companies and agencies there were that I needed to stay in contact with. I needed to contact them to update my information and I had little to use to...
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Making a ‘Tweet This’ Button with # and @
Are you trying to set up a “Tweet This” link in your email newsletter but it keeps looking funny or not including all the text? Last year, Matt wrote one of Social Source Common’s most popular blog...
View ArticleEmbarking on a Quest for a Tech Solution
Embarking on a quest can be daunting. Embarking on a quest for a new technology project is especially so. On trips and quests in life, we often start by finding a map or connecting with someone else...
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The Listening Cycle, Part I
Beyonce wants you to listen Image source:youtube.com The listening cycle has been co-written by Dirk Slater from Fabriders. Dirk has two decades of experience supporting social justice movements and...
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The Listening Cycle, Part II
The listening cycle series has been co-written by Dirk Slater from Fabriders. Dirk has two decades of experience supporting social justice movements and is a nice guy to boot. You can find him on...
View ArticleTwenty tactics for creating engaging online content
Do you ever find yourself asking “What’s the point of it all?” when creating content for the vast universe of the web? Don’t let your content fizzle out. Instead, consider using engagement asks to get...
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