Social Source Commons

From petition signing to donating, ActionSprout helps organizations engage their Facebook supporters beyond like, comment and share.

Backupify is a hosted service with three monthly pricing plans (the basic is free) that offers hosted backup of social media sites, Google and photo hosting services.

ChatSecure (Gibberbot) is a secure chat client capable of firewall and filter circumvention, surveillance blocking and end-to-end encryption. It works with Google, Facebook, any Jabber or XMPP server, such as OpenFire or eJabberD. Unlike Blackberry BBM’s broken single key security, Gibberbot uses the Off-the-Record encryption standard to enable true verifiable end-to-end encrypted communications.

Free unlimited, private, secure messaging with your friends over Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Hangouts, Jabber, Dukgo & more! Works with Android, iPhone, Mac, Linux or PC.

Integrated social messaging app, enables managing Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, Reddit and other feeds from 1 dashboard.

Facebook Privacy List is a filter subscription for Adblock Plus. It helps protect your privacy by blocking Facebook plugins and scripts (such as the "Like" button) when you visit non-Facebook websites.

This toolbox is for Facebook users who:

• Want a better understanding of what information Facebook makes public about them
• May wish to continue using Facebook, but on their own terms and with greater control over their information
• Need tools that go beyond the limitations of Facebook's privacy settings

There are several tools listed here, and some of them have overlapping capabilities. Here is the combination of tools that is working out well for me:

What I use:

• Multifox
• Facebook Privacy Scanner at ReclaimPrivacy.org
• Facebook API Browser
• Search Your Facebook Information on Google

Background Information

• New Facebook privacy changes are a LOT worse than I thought
• Are you removing Facebook fan pages from your profile to protect your privacy? Let page owners know!

If you'd like to recommend more tools for this toolbox, email me at kathryn@happysnowmantech.com.

P.S. If you like the icon for this toolbox, consider grabbing it from http://bit.ly/3vBg88 and making it your FB profile pic!

An application to quickly transfer photos from Flickr to Facebook.

Google Buzz is Google's foray into the world of status messages similar to Twitter and Facebook. Sets up automatically if you're using Gmail, it is also accessible on your mobile phone.

Social network, blogging and collaboration platform from Google

Hyper Alerts allows you to get email updates when someone has provided feedback (e.g. "like"s, comments, posts) on your organizational Facebook Page.

Integrated social messaging app, enables managing Facebook, Twitter and other feeds from 1 dashboard.

Hosted blogging platform with rich social media and multimedia support

A toolbox containing the different communication channels we use to inform our followers.

It is based on Aspiration's Online Communications Matrix which is a grid that lays out guidelines for organizational communications.

It's a crazy social media world out there. How is your communications process?

This Greasemonkey script will prevent third party sites from accessing the facebook api, which, among other things, prevents random internet sites from accessing your profile, displaying little "like" buttons, etc.

Seesmic Desktop is an Adobe Air application that allows you to easily follow, contact and organize your friends on Twitter and Facebook through a desktop application.

A collection of tools that help you back up the data in your social media presence.

SocialSafe is an Adobe Air application that allows you to download your friends, photos, profile and wall posts through Facebook Connect.

$2.99

Hosted image editor that supports multiple layers, has photo managing features and allows you to work with shared photos from sites like Flickr and Facebook.

Tinfoil for Facebook is for those users that require a Tinfoil Hat when logging in to Facebook. It creates a sandbox for Facebook's mobile site in order to protect your privacy and to avoid the ability others to track your browsing history.

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