software

Most of my day is spent working on projects to boost our numbers of students and mentors (i.e. recruitment.) Now that it’s getting near the holidays, this has slowed down. When I first started here, it felt like I had a least one or two events a week I attended in order to round up more students or volunteers. Thankfully, those days have ended. …read more

Firefox is currently the most popular (http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/by_popularity) tool in SSC, so it's pretty big news that Firefox 2.0 was released yesterday. I updated my version yesterday afternoon and so far it's been working great for me. More importantly, I haven't noticed any problems with SSC since I've been using it, although I will still be doing more testing. Along with the launch of Firefox 2.0, there has been an increase in activity among blogs and bookmarking sites listing add-ons for Firefox, most of which I've encorporated in Firefox's Useful Links field (http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/show/51/support). …read more

"There's newsfeeds on the starboard bow! Starboard bow! Starboard bow!" <ahem>   (If you don't get the joke, click here).   Anyway, I've been spending much of my time recently having fun with RSS. Much of what I'm doing is searching for information around the web that I can aggregate onto Social Source Commons, and naturally blogs are very helpful to this task, as are the official websites for the tools. I've also been signing up for Google Alerts, and getting e-mail whenever a new hit on Google results for my search terms. …read more

I just wanted to give a plug for Social Source Commons, the project I will primarily be working on here at Aspiration. We're developing this website so that non-profits can find out information about various software tools of all stripes. Ideally, this website will be a source of information about new products and upsdates to existing products, as well as pointing to help and documentation about products. Hopefully, the content will be user supplied and maintained, with minimal input form us. It's still in the Beta testing phase, so we could always use some new eyes to look at it and try it out. …read more

Hi guys, Hope everyone's first week is going well! I was hoping to get some ideas and suggestions from those of you who have any knowledge about what I guess I am calling access control. This is an area that I am unfamiliar with and trying to utilize all of my resources to learn more about:) We would like to find some software for our computer center that will allow us to: -require users to login and logout -track who logs in and when -prevents users from accessing certain controls and settings  -and return the computer to its original settings (so that nothing is permanently saved) upon logout  …read more