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Idealware: Assessing the New Online Participatory Tools for Your Organization
http://www.idealware.org/articles/participatory... New online participatory tools like blogs, YouTube, and MySpace can be powerful and valuable – if they mesh with your goals. Colin Delany walks through the benefits and costs of common participatory tools and suggests which are likely to be useful for you. |
Paypal
in 90 toolboxes General funds transfer service which can be adapted for online donations.
Blogger
in 36 toolboxes An entry-level, hosted blogging option that is owned by Google.
WordPress
in 198 toolboxes Flexible open-source content management and blogging software with an active user and developer community and a wide variety of plug-ins or extensions available.
Firefox
in 345 toolboxes Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
Skype
in 228 toolboxes Free/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.
Delicious
in 173 toolboxes Web based social bookmarking lets you share online finds and discover new ones. Ground zero for tagging.
OpenOffice
in 203 toolboxes Full-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.
Basecamp
in 125 toolboxes Web-based project management tool
Acrobat
in 51 toolboxes Multi-platform for viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents
Flickr
in 160 toolboxes Web based photo sharing service
digg
in 29 toolboxes Technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control
Audacity
in 96 toolboxes Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Picasa
in 55 toolboxes Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple, and makes it easy to share your pictures; you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures.
YouTube
in 75 toolboxes Upload up to 100MB videos and embed them in your sites. Now with dedicated channels for nonprofits.
Wikipedia
in 131 toolboxes Wikipedia is a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.
LinkedIn
in 144 toolboxes 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.
Gmail
in 159 toolboxes Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity
Google Calendar
in 76 toolboxes A free web-based calendar.
Google
in 105 toolboxes Google is the quintessential search engine.
Excel
in 44 toolboxes Desktop spreadsheet and data analysis application.
Facebook
in 114 toolboxes Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
in 83 toolboxes Now covered by Google Drive.
Web-based word processor and spreadsheet tool. Formerly Writely.
VLC Media Player
in 79 toolboxes VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Google Alerts
in 45 toolboxes Have Google email you notifications of news, new web results, or new blog posts containing your desired search term.
CCleaner
in 28 toolboxes CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.
Social Source Commons
in 144 toolboxes 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.
PHP
in 54 toolboxes PHP Language
StumbleUpon
in 19 toolboxes Social Bookmarking website
Google Reader
in 62 toolboxes Web-based RSS aggregator
FeedBurner
in 32 toolboxes FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.
Twitter
in 125 toolboxes Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
SlideShare
in 26 toolboxes Upload and share powerpoint presentations.
Google Maps
in 55 toolboxes Maps and directions anywhere in the world.
