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.

aMSN is an open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as: display pictures, custom emoticons, multi language, webcam support, full-speed file transfer, chat logs, conferencing support, event alarms and more.

AIM Pro IM client has a one-click WebEx meeting feature by which you can run presentations and collaborate on documents in real-time.

Aspiration organizes events on a regular basis, and we use these tools to support out event planning, logistics, and delivery. Aspiration's event methodology is documented on our Facilitation Wiki.

Free group forums, calendars, file sharing, and admin tools.

Blog It is a free Facebook application which focuses on making it easier for you to create content no matter the blogging platform you use.

Web-based tool for assembling board books.

Web based tool to manage board of directors

Web-based board-of-directors portal

Breeze is a web communication system deployed using Adobe Flash Player. Your audience can join your Breeze online meetings, training courses and on-demand presentations instantly. Whiteboarding and live annotation capabilities are supported.

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.

Online community hosting software.

ConsultantCommons.org provides an online collaboration space and community for IT consultants who work with non-profits. (Now defunct.)

CoTweet allows multiple people to communicate through Twitter accounts and stay in sync while doing so. Tweets can be scheduled.

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.

Online whiteboard collaboration software.

Web based social bookmarking lets you share online finds and discover new ones. Ground zero for tagging.

DeskAway is a subscription-based web-based social collaboration service that enables small businesses & teams to organize, manage & track their work online.

Open Source web conferencing

Camera, audio, chat, presentation, live recording, webbased collaboration

Enterprise content management platform.

Meeting scheduler.

Company: Dream Factory

Description:

DreamTeam is the leading Project Management application on the AppExchange, and the best solution for Project Management, Collaborative Calendaring, and Document Management in salesforce.com. Supports US and International date standards.

AppExchange Link: http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=&id=a0330000000GI9YAAW

http://www.dreamfactory.com/solutions

Non-Profit Pricing: Ten Free Licenses per product

Process: Sign up for a free trial, and enter "nonp" in the promotional code field.

An online spreadsheet service with real-time-update and extensive collaboration features.

online video sharing web application

Messaging and collaboration server.

eZconference is good for group collaboration, presentations, reports, information capture and document review.

FMYI [For MY Innovation] is an online workspace you can use to bring your team together to store and share information securely with each other.

Conference calls for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Scheduled or on-demand. Free and premium services available.

Simple Small Business CRM

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

Web delivered software service providing email groups for organizations. Email groups have a forum-like web interface with no ads, and can be created on a custom site at a subdomain of onlinegroups.net. Public groups are free. Uses the open source tool GroupServer.

An open source project management tool for teams, Open Atrium provides teams with a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to-do list, a "shoutbox" and a dashboard to keep track of what is going on.

The program is customizable, extensible and built on the Drupal platform.

Hosted project workflow solution.

An Open Source, self hosted web office.

OpenSpace-Online promotes autonomous, responsible, respectful, and results-oriented collaboration.

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.

It's a secure accessible place online where you can post text, documents, and even photos and videos.

PleaseReview is a browser-based collaborative review and authoring solution.

Annotate text or graphics during lessons with over 20 arrows, highlighters, shapes and spotlights. Get your point across in PowerPoint or any application you are presenting on your screen.

Professional wiki collaboration software for workgroup collaboration. ProjectForum is a wiki for small-medium teams who need to collaborate. Comes in limited free and licensed options. Also an instruction-oriented version called Course Forum (see the web site).

Instant Messenger client for Jabber

Wiki with purple numbers, transclusions, and other cutting edge experimental features.

Talk Online anywhere around the world for free, do live video conferencing or Transfer Files of any size with complete security.

Raindance offers audio and web conferencing solutions

Webpage commenting extension that allows you to comment on web content and share those comments with who you choose. Useful as a collaboration tool especially when colleagues are working remotely.

Free conference call service with nice web-based management UI. Based on Asterisk VOIP server

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system.

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

Server platform for collaboration, content management, business processes, records management. Supports searches for people, documents, and data, and analysis of large amounts of business data.

Video conferencing software.

SkyFex Remote Assistant is a free service that allows seeing what is happening on the remote computer desktop in real time.

SlideMate is a tool that allows you to annotate on your screen

Social Actions is an open source database of actions people can take on any issue. The actions in its database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.

Social Actions encourages social tech programmers to develop web applications that intelligently distribute the actions in its database across the websites, social networks, and mobile phones that millions of people use every day. The overarching goal of Social Actions' work is to make the web more action-oriented, or in other words, to make it easier for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference.

Online collaboration software.

The term Social VPN refers to a Virtual Private Network that is created among individual peers, automatically, based on relationships established by them through a social networking service. A SocialVPN aims at providing peer-to-peer network connectivity between an user and his or her friends, in an easy to setup manner that hides from the users the complexity in setting up and maintaining authenticated/encrypted end-to-end VPN tunnels.

Web 2.0 tools every Nonprofit should consider using. From photo sharing to article aggregation, these tools may be able to help your organization get connected with a broader community.

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Spreed is a service that allows you to perform remote presentations and organize distance seminars and conferences.

StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain. With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.

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.

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 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