These are the tools that I have to use in order to be the best SSC Community Manager that there is. Whether it be updating the WordPress blog with Cyberduck or chatting on Adium about Google Analytics, these tools help my world go 'round.
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Adium
in 45 toolboxes
add to my toolboxI use Adium to stay in touch with coworkers when either of us is not in the office. It's easy, combines your buddy lists and has tabbed windows. Good times. Too bad there's no video chat though...
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Basecamp
in 69 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBasecamp is our project Manager of choice here at Social Source Commons. While it doesn't have the best interface in the world, it's good at giving everyone a single place to post info, leave messages and share to-dos and calendars.
tagged: AJAX, ASP, groupware, hosted, management, project, project-management, projectmanagement, project_management, Ruby, rubyonrails, task, time, tracking -
Bloglines
in 24 toolboxes
add to my toolboxReading a billion tech blogs is easy with Bloglines. Because it can aggregate all of the tech blogs I follow in one place, it's where I go to stay in touch with techie news.
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Cyberduck
in 19 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCyberduck is a simple, slick FTP client for Mac OS X. A nice alternative to FileZilla for those who haven't upgraded to Leopard, I use it to fiddle with the blog.
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Democracy In Action
in 26 toolboxes
add to my toolboxWe use Democracy in Action's CRM, Salsa to handle our email blast needs. Its interface can leave a little to be desired, but its capabilities more than make up for it.
tagged: advocacy, campaign, campaigning, crm, dia, donation, eadvocacy, email, eorganizing, event, fundraising, grassroots, hosted, java, mailinglists, management, nptech, opensource, Registration -
Firefox
in 218 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFirefox is my best friend and browser of choice to navigate nonprofit tech.
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Google Analytics
in 28 toolboxes
add to my toolboxI follow the statistics of our websites (SSC and the Blog) using Google Analytics and I couldn't ask for anything more. I'm not sure if it could be any more informative and easy to use.
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OpenOffice
in 119 toolboxes
add to my toolboxUsing OpenOffice for all of my document needs makes me a fan of open source software. It can completely replace that other office suite and still hold its own.
tagged: apc, bloatware, calc, crossplatform, editor, microsoft, office, officesuite, opensource, powerpoint, preocessing, presentation, productivity, spreadsheet, spreadshet, suite, word, wordprocessing -
Skype
in 138 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTalking to coworkers in Singapore has never been easier (or cheaper) than this free audio chat utility. Video chat makes it that much more useful (and cooler).
tagged: apc, calls, chat, crossplatform, free, IM, instantmessaging, internettelephony, leadlearn, MacOSX, OnDemandNPO, phone, secbox, Security, skype, skypeout, tools, video, voip -
TextWrangler
in 11 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTextWrangler is my text editor. Helping me out when I need to jot down a plain text document or identify commands in a script, it never lets me down.
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Thunderbird
in 84 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThunderbird handles my email needs with a certain open-source flair.
tagged: client, communication, crossplatform, e-mail, email, GNU, IMAP, Linux, mac, mail, mail_client, opensource, secbox, side -
WordPress
in 96 toolboxes
add to my toolboxManaging a blog is super simple using WordPress. It is very visual, simple and easy to use (and if not, easy to figure out).
