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

Online presentation software.

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.

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

Bosco is a screen sharing solution for Mac OS and Windows users.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Online whiteboard collaboration software.

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

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.

Messaging and collaboration server.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Online meeting and presentation tool.

Hosted notetaking site.

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.

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

Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project

Project management software.

Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing

A web-based collaboration tool geared specifically toward committees and boards, it allows you to easily create and share agendas, minutes and documents as well as schedule meetings and notify members.

Near-Time integrates a group weblog with wiki pages, team events and shared files in a hosted and secure collaborative environment.

Network Streaming is a service that supports remote control virtually any PC or Mac through firewalls.

Mac MindMapping Software.

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.

OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber).

Free web-based services for publishing and collaborative working

Social networking tool

Hosted platform for managing house parties, meetings, and events. Includes support for managing distributed events, including invitations, RSVPs, and tracking contributions.