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There are a lot of new online tools that are aimed at helping people create quick & easy websites. Though I don't think anyone's created *the* perfect tool yet, there seem to be many more offerings than there were even a couple of years ago. Webnode is a free tool that allows you to create a free website w/blog, and lets you use your existing
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I'm going to have to second this Cool Alert. The last thing I really want to do right now is sign up for a new cool tool that I'll use for a minute and a half and then forget, but this actually looks really useful. You sign up, which takes no time at all, and then fill in the information for various social networking sites, like linkedin, flickr
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Wild Apricot is very easy to use website builder tailored for nonprofits. I would also recommend Grassroots.org as a potentially great resource for your organization. As far as more advanced tools, free open source tools like Drupal are great, but require more time investment to setup and maintain. Ning is a fun tool. You may also just want to get a
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i love stumbleupon. it's kind of like channel surfing on the internet. not the most practical thing in the world, but you can also do searches, and actually it sometimes beats traditional search enginges as my primary means of finding information, especially if i know what i want to find and am concerned about finding something of quality (e.g.
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The polls are open for Voting on the NetSquared website! From April 9th - Saturday, April 14th at 12pm, any registered user of the NetSquared site can vote for their favorite projects. There are over 150 projects , and of these, the 20 projects who receive the most community votes will be featured at the 2nd annual TechSoup NetSquared Conference and
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This question is on behalf of a nonprofit worker I met recently who has a community of about 40,000 potential participants, but a very small budget and no tech staff. She wants to provide a way for the participants (who are teachers) to email each other and share documents. My first instinct was wiki, but most kinds I'm familiar with don't have
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The Dougherty mashup shows the location of EPA identified facilities that release toxic chemicals in Dougherty Georgia. Most awesome things about this mashup are: *it's replicable, so people can use the source to build similar mashups for their communities *it was created instantly and for free in an afternoon session at the NetSquared Conference
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Hey Joe, That sounds like a great use of a wiki. There are plenty of tools you can use to build a private wiki that's accessible from anywhere. Actually, WikiSpaces does that You can go to Wikispaces.com and set up a public wiki to see what it's like. It's free to set up a public wiki - they only charge if you want to use a private one.
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You can find examples of organizations using wikis at http://www.netsquared.org/catlist/tid/60/flexinode-1 My personal favorite is the wiki at Never Again International ( http://neveragaininternational.org/wiki/ ), an "international network which aims to provoke ideas and actions for peace". They've done a fantastic job or making an engaging site
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Nonprofits definitely are using social networking tools to further their mission; for instance, MySpace alone lists 5119 groups in their "Nonprofit and Philanthropy" section. Some of these are completely random, but there are some really great communities being build. Life Rolls On, for instance, is a 501c3 nonprofit that advocates for people who've