Social Source Commons

This is a collection of software tools represented by participants and/or otherwise used at the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland, CA.

You can review the Agenda and session notes, as well as event pictures, Tweets from the event and the legendary DevSummit Group Photo.

The 2009 DevSummit was the third annual convening of people and organizations developing software tools, web applications and other technology to support social justice causes. Bringing together a diverse range of users, developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of “developing nonprofit software”, the event provided an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity.

The event was generously sponsored by Mozilla, Google, and CiviCRM.

Open source site for academics to list publications and interests that seeks to develop a single listing of all college and university faculty (including adjuncts) in the world.

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

ammado connects nonprofits, socially responsible companies and engaged individuals in a unique environment of shared interests and supplies the tools necessary to support online campaigning, fundraising, engagement and communication.

A simple URL shortener. Generates shorter URLs than TinyURL, and has redirection. Useful for Twitter, and supports tracking number of clicks, traffic sources, and time-of-day patterns.

BlogMarks is a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging.

These tools allow you to bookmark websites and content around the web to access from where-ever.

This toolbox inspired by 10 Alternatives to Delicious and the "death" of Delicious

How to Export Your Delicious Bookmarks

Know another? Add it!

Have an opinion? Tell Us! Change the description in the toolbox!

Outreach and engagement tool which uses email marketing, social media monitoring, and scoring to help you find new supporters.

Social Bookmarking & Tagging for the Enterprise

Cyn.in is designed to help teams to communicate faster and build collaborative knowledge by sharing and discussing various forms of digital content in a secure application. Features capabilities like wikis, social networks, blogs, file sharing repositories, micro blogs, discussion boards and other communication applications into one secure enterprise platform.

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

Disqus is a comment system that replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.

dotCommunity is a powerful web-based application suite for the development of online communities.

Open Source Social Networking Platform

Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.

IN DEVELOPMENT

A browser extension to have encryted Facebook conversations.

Let your visitors make your site popular by sharing your pages thanks to colorfull and attractiv social buttons

Web browzer branch of mozilla with blogging and tagging imbedded

ForwardTrack is a new system created by Eyebeam R&D designed to track and map the diffusion of email forwards, political calls-to-action, and online petitions. It can trace email forwards, map the impact of blogs, and facilitate web-based sign-ups and soc

Genwi combines aspects of RSS feed readers and updates from social sites like Twitter to create a single place to get updated on news you're interested in.

give2gether is a venue for social activism, improving effectiveness of modern micro-philanthropy. What does give2gether have that other online micro-philanthropy platforms don't?

Unlike any other player in this industry, give2gether developed its platform based on proprietary game theoretic algorithms that address group behavioral parameters to optimize the success of each campaign.

By turning more strangers into friends, friends into donors, and donors into fundraisers, give2gether maximizes online philanthropy conversion rates.

Giver's Circle Fundraising Software is fundraising software from Osnium that helps organizations manage board members, supporters, pledges, online tasks and even staff.

Goodbye, Buddy! is an unfollower monitor for Twitter. Follow @goodbyebuddy on twitter and then visit goodbyebuddy.com

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.

Group message broadcasting for Twitter. Send private messages to specific groups of friends.

On-line Calendar

HiveLive works a little like LiveJournal or Orkut (make networks of your friends) but throws in easy templates for structured data, like lists, forms, and other data.

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

JomSocial enables social networking on Joomla! sites. Features include activity streams, flexible templating & design, photo gallery, video support, organic groups, event management, social graph management, customize profile, private messaging, and external social network integration.

Social networking for non-social purposes with a focus on professional development, networking for jobs and problem solving through the expertise of those in your extended network.

Hosted community blogging service.

Social Bookmarking website - now defunct.

White label online community vendor that integrates with association management databases

Easy-to-use interactive tool for exploring your Twitter network. Discover which people interact the most and what they're talking about.

MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.

Customizable home page that allows you to read RSS feeds and check e-mail. Can be used to construct media tracking dashboards.

Free and easy way to discover, clone, customise and share social web applications

Piczo allows its users to create fully customizable personal websites that do not require any understanding of html code.

Plurk is an alternate blogging platform, describing itself as "a social journal for your life." which enables users to share their life easily with friends, family and fans.

The Priv3 Firefox extension lets you remain logged in to the social networking sites you use and still browse the web, knowing that those third-party sites only learn where you go on the web when you want them to.

Social fundraising and online giving alternative to Facebook Causes.

Republishes full articles with original branding, attribution, ads, and rich media directly onto other sites.

Search engine that merges real-time tracking of Twitter and other live feeds with traditional news and media search.

Very flexible way to manage your social networks including: social media, email marketing, SMS campaigns, keyword monitoring

Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you'd like.

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Also available for Blogger and other platforms.

Tools to help get a Social Enterprise up and running

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

These tools can help you to track things such as how many people are mentioning you, your organization, and your work in various online channels, as well as who is clicking on and sharing your links or updates, or trends relating to specific issue areas such health care reform, environmental, or human rights.

Various tools below track keywords, clicks, and other activity information on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and more. Includes utilities that support the actual tracking tools, such as URL shorteners.

for a workshop on social media

SocialBackster is the an interactive desktop application for MySpace profiles. It runs on Adobe Air and offers users a fun and easy way to back up their profile information on their computers.

$2.95/quarter

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

$2.99

SoNIA is a Java-based package for visualizing dynamic or longitudinal "network" data.

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.

Search social media posts by hash tag. Research a #subject or create your #own set of posts using #subject

Tracking tool for social media.

ThoughtFarmer is Social Intranet Software. It combines traditional intranet features — things like news, structured content, search and an employee directory — with social software features, like blogs, feeds, wikis and social networks.

Originally developed April '06. Needs updating. See original list.

Real-time social and digital media tracking, including blogs, location, microblogs, search, social networks and video.

On-line calendar

Tool to search recent Twitter messages for specific words or phrases.

A hosted service that finds other Twitter users that might interest you based on shared Tweet topics.

Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

Publishes blog feeds on Twitter and Facebook

These are tools we used at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in the People's Media Center

Tool for capturing feedback and letting users vote on any set of topics or items.

We rank 5500+ companies on 25 aspects of reputation.

Wakoopa is a Social Network for Software

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

Recommended plugins and other tools for creating and maintaining a site with WordPress.

Most of these tools were used to create & manage fusedc.org, a volunteer-run resource website for nonprofit social justice professionals with a focus on the DC community.

A community of online diaries and journals.

Online professionalnetworking service.

XOOPS Cube is a a free Open Source Web Application Platform released under BSD license and Base Legacy modules released under GPL license: user and groups management, message, search, forums, social news, rss, gallery, blog, flat data and contact forms and much more plug-ins.

The XOOPS Cube Project is friendly managed, maintained, developed and supported by a volunteer group to expand your network, vision, creativity and skills.

Web-based membership software integrated with social networking

Layouts, Graphics, & Generators for MySpace, Piczo, or Xanga