Social Source Commons

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.

ACE is a downloadable collaborative editor that allows groups of users to view and edit in real-time a shared text document.

Adobe's take on video conferencing and online seminars

Free beta service for online meetings. Screen sharing, whiteboard, chat, video, audio, free conference number. Part of the Acrobat.com suite of tools

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

Screen annotation tool for Windows.

Tools Aspiration uses for communication amongst ourselves and with everyone else.

Instantly show your computer screen to anyone online with BeamYourScreen

BLive allows you to temporarily connect to your client's computer over the web to quickly diagnose and fix problems, demonstrate difficult tasks, and respond to technical queries.

Software tools that nonprofits can use to support and manage their board of directors

Web-based board of directors portal, with individual committee workrooms, integrated Policy Sampler from BoardSource, document library and directory.

Online board profile, prospect tracking and reporting tool

Bosco is a screen sharing solution for Mac OS and Windows users.

Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms.

Central Desktop is a web-based collaboration tool for teams to efficiently share information and communicate with others both inside and outside the firewall.

Citadel is a complete and feature-rich open source groupware platform.

Community platforms that support collaboration within and across organizations. This toolbox inspired by an NTEN Discussion.

Wiki. Not open source, and only free to non-profits, but excellent.

Convoq's products are Flash-based online meeting systems featuring meeting capabilities that include text chat, VoIP audio, video, screen sharing, PowerPoint presentations, record and playback, and now remote desktop control capabilities and whiteboards.

Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices.

Hosted collaboration platform. Users can share ideas across their organization, get feedback from people with whom they wouldn't normally interact and form ad hoc groups that cut across organizational boundaries.

A Productivity Suite - helps businesses organize themselves with tools like shared calendars, contacts, projects, meetings and more

Depicto is a free public service that is designed for families and friends to look at photos together in a shared-screen "multiuser collaboration" mode.

A consortium supported email list/web archive designed for low bandwidth application in international development

Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed

Docly, the Web 2.0 online word processor with copyright protection, automatically assigns copyrights (both All Rights Reserved and Creative Commons) licenses to all published Docly Documents.

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable.

Dotproject is a LAMP-based project management tool for the web

eBLVD integrates remote control, text chat, VoIP, annotation, file transfer, 128-bit security encryption, event scheduling, free teleconferencing support and recording into an essential PC-based screen sharing solution

Enterprise content management system of tools.

Live, collaborative text-editing

Open source, open standards content management system written in Java that includes OpenSocial components for collaboration (eXo Social)

FLOSS Manuals is a wiki-like platform for generating user manuals for free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS). The goal of the project is to make free software more accessible by providing clear documentation that accurately explains their purpose and use. The manuals on FLOSS Manuals are written by a community of people, who do a variety of things to keep the manuals as up to date and accurate as possible. The way in which FLOSS Manuals are written mirrors the way in which FLOSS (Free, libre open source) software itself is written: by a community who contribute to and maintain the content.

Free and Open Source tools for sharing, organizing and maintaining document assets across a team or organization. This toolbox inspired by a discussion on the Asia Source II mailing list.

Providing free conferencing services include audio, operator assisted, web, and data conferencing solutions.

Screen sharing and remote-control solution that can be used to show your screen to attendees operating on any operating system and without requiring no software downloads.

Glance is a simple, quick desktop sharing tool for hosting live web demos, sales presentations and more.

GoMeetNow enables remote desktop sharing and collaborative web-based meetings.

Google Apps Team Edition is a set of collaboration tools for verified users of a domain. The suite includes the following Google services: Sites, Docs, Calendar, Talk, Mail, and Start Page.

Online project management app.

Host unlimited meetings for an unlimited duration with up to 10 attendees per meeting

Groupboard is a set of multi-user java applets including whiteboard, chat, message board, games and voice conferencing which you can place on your web page by simply copying a few lines of html code.

Collaboration platform for groups. Combines the features of discussion forums, email lists, calendars and social networks. Groupsites can be configured to be public, semi-public, or private and secure. Formerly known as CollectiveX.

Online meeting and presentation tool.

Web Collaboration and Online Intranet Software

Web video conferencing services

InstantPresenter offers live video and audio web conferencing and webcasting tools with features such as PowerPoint™ support, live presentation recording and archiving, live polling, screen and desktop sharing, attendance tracking and monitoring.

Manage your
tasks, ideas, and projects in structured lists.

Free, web-based team project management application with an emphasis on simplicity

Bug tracker. Not open source, and only free to non-profits, but excellent.

Portal and social collaboration software.

Hosted real-time collaboration solution.

Messaging, collaboration, workflow automation and application server.

M2Screen Annotator is a program which will allow you to directly draw on the screen during a presentation or something like that with your Microsoft Tablet PC or Tablet PC SDK enabled system. You can then save the entire screenshot as an image

Mail server and collaboration platform for multiple operating systems.

Excellent free web-based tool to coordinate meetings between many people without wading through emails.

Online mind-mapping tool.

Message board software.

Hosted project management tool

Netviewer one2one enables two people to work together interactively by sharing their screens and even granting remote-control rights to each other.

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

Hosted online collaboration

Free video chat program

OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber).

Free web-based services for publishing and collaborative working

Social networking tool

Hosted platform for managing house parties, meetings, and events. Includes support for managing distributed events, including invitations, RSVPs, and tracking contributions.

Full-featured time tracking tool for managers and employees, with paid and free versions.

Symantec pcAnywhere 12.0, the world's leading remote control solution, helps organizations manage remote computers securely across multiple platforms to resolve issues quickly.

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

Collaborate with customers and colleagues on the web to present sales information, hold training sessions and conduct interactive meetings over the internet.

ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.

Freeware bulletin-board forum

Online collaboration software and desktop

Single-topic web forum that's also fully email-enabled.

Remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet.

On-line task manager.

Private Social Networking for Membership Organizations and Associations.

A free, open source community learning software platform used for teaching, research and collaboration.

ScreenStream lets others 'watch' your screen on their computers over the network or the internet. It is the modern equivalent of the overhead projector.

Allows you to share your desktop with anyone over the internet.

SMF is a free, professional grade forum tool using PHP and MYSQL. Integrates well with Joomla using a bridge add-on.

Hosted slide sharing application.

Project management using spreadsheet interface. Very slick and easy to use.

The Social Source Commons is a “knowledge commons” that provides users with: a directory of software applications; links to relevant documentation, localization tools, services, user reviews; and a place to request tools/features.

wiki software with blog and user management and email integration and commenting

Create, Access, Edit, Share, Collaborative edit Documents & Projects

Spinscape is an exciting, dynamic web application for mind mapping and visual collaboration.

Create and edit Flash presentations online.

Online organizational tool -- vitrual "sticky notes".

Peer-to-peer collaborative editing/coding over TCP/IP or local networks for Mac users.

Simple, sharable web-based to-do lists

Web-based task-management and collaboration software.

A collaborative word processing tool that allows you to easily work with multiple versions and changes of a document.

TikiWiki 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, ADOdb, 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 Tiki (PDA, VoiceXML and WAP access), 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.

Trackvia is the happy marriage of a simple web-based database and essential tracking tools for managing and sharing information online

Tool for groups to collaboratively view and sketch on top of web pages and other uploaded images.

WebDialogs Unyte™ is an easy-to-use, secure sharing plug-in that allows Skype users to seamlessly escalate a call or chat to a real-time collaboration.

An open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.

Forum and community publishing software, with search and security features.

Based in the eLearning world, Elluminate's “vOffice” version—their least expensive—is notably academic-focused. Features include breakout rooms, polls, online content library and much more.

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.

On-line multiuser web collaboration tool.

Hosted collaboration suite. Formerly Intranets.com

Platform for libre learning with open educational resources (OER): MediaWiki enhanced significantly by the community with educational templates, etc..

Annotate the Screen and Capture Your Actions

From the single secure web site, you can record billable time, create invoices, help your customers with support issues, generate quotes, manage projects, track sales leads, share documents, run an email marketing campaign, schedule meetings, create online forms, write a blog, generate detailed reports and more.

Idea management and collaboration website.

Sharable web-based document editing

Online document sharing.

Web-based decision-making tool for organizations that need to come to a group consensus. Free in its current beta form.

Suite of web-based office productivity and collaboration applications

Web-based survey tool