List of competition, similar apps or references and inspirations

1. Competition/Inspiration

• riseup.net
• Civic Space
  Screen Shots of version 8.2
  Uses Drupal for content mgt, and CiviCRM for "constituent relations management"
  Mitch Kapor of OSAF helped start it (mentioned in Dreaming in Code p 203).
  

• NetSquared - techsoup project
  "remixing the web for social change"

• http://www.wildapricot.com/

• http://www.change.org

• http://dotorganize.net/report/introduction

• NGO In A Box
  

  
  

2. Hosted project management tools

• Basecamp
  user: missmoun pass: topp
  Their manifesto + Extensive review
• Copper Project
• Active Collab
• Go Plan
  Not released yet but screenshots available
• Zoho Projects
  Also pre-release but demo available
• Unfuddle
  might be a bit different?
• PhpCollab
  related to MS projects
• QuickBase
  more advanced but might offer some good insight
• Groove Site
  seems to focus more on web collab than project management -good 
• Ning
  Their process to create a social network is really clean.
  

3. Some similar features

• Tadalist
  - Appears to be too simplistic -only one level task etc... too personal also
  Not really worth mentioning. The BaseCamp full task list app is closer to what we need.
  

• Clocking IT
  - Confusing PM application. Task list is almost too extensive. Feature Overload. Bad visual interface.
  + Creates "company URL" topp.clockingit.com (user: missmoun pss: topp)
  
• @Task seems solid
  http://www.attask.com/sst-task-management.html
  
• Remember the Milk
  PClearly the best of all hosted task list. very ajaxy, full featured but seems good
  username: missmoun, pass:12345
• Freewebs.com
  

4. Stuff for non-profit/community activities

• Service Leader
  Some stuff on volonteerism etc.
  
• Tech Soup
  Great reference on all thing related to tech for non-profits
• Volunteer Match
  Matches organization and people to volunteer for then. But somehow it's strange.
• Idealist.org
  Lots of info: portal for some world change communities
• http://www.justgive.org/
  

5. References

• Thinking about moderation strategies: http://social.itp.nyu.edu/shirky/wiki/?n=Main.PatternLanguage
• About mailing lists http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/mailing-lists.html#reply-to
  

6. Places & People using virtual tools for social change

• Participate.net
  
• NextBillion.net

(both using civic space i think.... and both kind of messy/hard to follow or orient oneself)

• Never Again International
  Small organisation - attempted the use of a wiki for core content

7. Wikis

• Google collaborative tools
• social text: http://www.socialtext.com/
• Jotspot: http://www.jot.com/
• Confluence: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
• PB wiki: http://pbwiki.com/
• PmWiki (not hosted) http://www.pmwiki.org/
• Wikipedia, simple, anyone can figure it out. Running wiki media
  
• Wet paint http://www.wetpaint.com/
• Edit me http://www.editme.com/
• Tiddy Wiki: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
• Sycamore: http://projectsycamore.org/

 

ADD:
Yahoo! and google groups
Online gaming
mooveon.org and other
indymedia.org... services like us,
nebora
Ning Building mashups
Request Tracker (fed ex uses it so it can be very complex and do anything thought about).
MySpace. lots of tech issues and doesn't do much, yet. And it looks ancient.
Source Forge
Magnolia
participatory way of publishing social events and activities
Tools for stuff that need to get done.
dotorganize.net
list of more related software: toolcrib.ning.com
http://www.democracyinaction.org/