Category: Communications
This is an index of
free and
open source communications tools for your home and small office. Use these resources to minimize costs of your nonprofit.
Tokbox is the latest rage in web based communications. Skype may have a hold over the free video and voice calls at the moment, but don't forget, this is the technological world and there's always another disruptive technology that comes along. The amazing thing about Tokbox is that it does not require downloading software!
As we mentioned in support, iGetcha loves what Ushahidi has done and more nonprofits and ngos need to know about them ;) Crowdsourcing is a bit of a buzzword right now and we want to help explain this term more simply...
ZOHO is a must have for nonprofits period. We're not sure if this is what ZOHO stands for but we'd like to call it "Zen Office, Home Office" :)
Google Grants is a program especially for nonprofits to advertise their work to the world. Basically, your organization will be featured if you qualify for a google grant. So when someone googles something related to your nonprofit work, your organization will be featured as an ad in google searches.
Google Apps for nonprofits is free for notforprofit organizations. You can look at the details on the site but basically at the moment, the Education Edition is the free for nonprofits. Also, you can qualify for a discount on Google's Premier Edition as a nonprofit and that's only necessary if you have over 3,000 users in your organization ;)
Identi.ca is the
more tech savvy version of FriendFeed and Twitter. What we mean by that is, FreedFeed may aggregate more social media sites, Twitter may have the most twits but at identi.ca, the innovators - the people that work hard to make/develop the Internet and its applications - are there! ;)
You might say this is obvious, but in reality, there are still people out there that do not use Skype and need help using it! This is our favorite Internet calling software and although techies don't like the fact that the source is closed, most of them will agree that Skype has the best quality thus far.
Drupal Gardens is a cool Acquia Drupal site that makes launching a basic site for your needs as not only a nonprofit but as a business a well. Look for this customizeable, Drupal, point-and-click type interface to improve and make it a lot easier to launch a Drupal site.
There is potential and much more than we think. Although nonprofits and NGOs have not found as many ways to use Foursquare as much as individuals, we need to be creative and think about what Foursquare really provides our community. For one, it's fun. You get trophies, awards, a title... All for exploring the world. With "check-ins" and "nights out", you can do a lot more with Foursquare than you think ;)
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