Social Source Commons

Web based project management, task organizer, team collaboration and time tracking software

Online bookmarking service.

FOSS platform for project management, time tracking, and scheduling

ActivePen is a Windows only whiteboarding software that can also perform screen-captures

Online presentation software.

Collect and prioritize ideas (proposals, opinons about a suggested policy, action, etc.) transparently

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.

Hosted web conferencing, video conferencing, screen sharing

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

Web based bug tracker and issue tracker software for project management development.

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.

Chandler is a Note-to-Self Organizer designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring.

Chandler consists of a desktop application and Chandler Hub, a sharing service and web application. You can also download and install your own Chandler Server.

Chandler is open source and standards-based.

Citizendium is a web-based a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia in which authors use their own names and articles are approved by subject-field experts.

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.

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.

CrossLoop is a free secure screen sharing utility

Curriki's mission is to provide free, high-quality curricula and education resources to teachers, students, and parents around the world.

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.

Online meeting platform, with screencast, dial-in and recording.

GForge helps you manage the entire development life cycle

GoLightly builds thriving online communities to strengthen your organization. Our social networking tools give your members the ability to interact with you and each other in powerful new ways.

Free for Non-Profits and Schools but the same functionality as Google Apps Pro.

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

GoToAssist is a service that enables remote support with integrated screen sharing capabilities.

Operating via a network, Groove Virtual Office software allows teams of people to work together as if they were in the same physical location, through their website.

GroupServer is an open-source collaboration server, licenced under the GPL. It supports many-to-many, and one-to-many, interaction in groups and communities via email and a Web interface. GroupServer sites are secure, and personalised with member directories, postings by topic, Web Feeds, document sharing, advanced searching, e-mail digests, and Web-based forum management and many other features.

Messaging and collaboration server software.

Hosted online collaboration.

IGLOO lets users create connections between people, processes and information through the creation of online business communities.

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.

A groupware solution for Emails, Appointments, Contacts and more.

LeapSeed is an application development framework and content management system used to quickly create custom database applications, data-aware websites, and process-driven solutions.

On-line list management application

Instant screen sharing

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.

Online storage for videos, images, documents. User retains rights to content and controls access.

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.

SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous collaborative editor.

Talk and Write is a Skype-enabled application which allows you to work on a shared whiteboard with anyone among your Skype contacts.

Hosted project 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 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.

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

Project management tool with support for resource allocation, communication, collaboration, budget management, planning, scheduling, estimation, documentation and cost control, administration systems dealing with large complex projects.

TWiki is an enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool

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, Blackboard Collaborate's “vOffice” version—their least expensive—is notably academic-focused. Features include breakout rooms, polls, online content library and much more. vOffice was originally developed by Elluminate inc. and in June 2011 it was acquired by Blackboard Collaborate.

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG-editing, page rights (ACLs), design themes (skins), file upload, email notification and much more. Compatible with PHP 7.2 / 7.4 and MariaDB / MySQL.

Software tools that enable synchronous or "real time" online meetings, conferences, and one-to-one collaborations.

WebEx integrates audio and video conferencing and supports both Internet Phone (VoIP) and teleconferencing (telephone).

Simplifie project management tool with wizards, Gantt charts, and dashboard features

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

The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite.

http://wikisuite.org/

Online file sharing and organization tool.

WorkHack is a whiteboard to-do list

Online collaboration tool offering many Project Management features.

Open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets.

Online web collaboration software

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration.

Zoho Projects help teams organize their work & track progress.