Comments on: Social Actions – open source microphilanthropy in action http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2009/04/03/social-actions-change-the-web-challenge-proving-the-power-of-open-apis-for-online-fundraising-and-wider-microphilanthropy/ Digital fundraising thoughts and news Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Christine Egger http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2009/04/03/social-actions-change-the-web-challenge-proving-the-power-of-open-apis-for-online-fundraising-and-wider-microphilanthropy/#comment-504 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:48:59 +0000 http://givinginadigitalworld.org/?p=893#comment-504 Andrew, thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I’ve left a brief reply there, and am copying it below for a quick link especially to the Developer Google Group resource ~

Christine

Andrew, thanks for drawing attention to Social Actions. The improvements you mention (which we’d like to see, too) can be accomplished by combining the Social Actions aggregation (with is open) with other sources of information. We’re seriously committed to encouraging those kinds of meta-aggregations. The Social Actions Developer Google Group, where all kinds of where-can-we-go-next ideas are being pursued, is up to +80 members and growing:

http://groups.google.com/group/social-actions-dev

And we’ve just wrapped the project-submission-period for our first Change the Web Challenge Project Gallery: 40+ apps that distribute the Social Actions aggregation across the web, often while mashing it up with more info and filtering it in a way that makes it more relevant to a particular audience.

Project Gallery:
http://www.netsquared.org/projectgallery/changetheweb

The winners of the Change the Web Challenge will be announced at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 28, in San Francisco:
http://www.socialactions.com/changetheweb

]]> By: Andrew Robinson http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2009/04/03/social-actions-change-the-web-challenge-proving-the-power-of-open-apis-for-online-fundraising-and-wider-microphilanthropy/#comment-501 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:24:39 +0000 http://givinginadigitalworld.org/?p=893#comment-501 I really like this. What I think it’s really exposing is the long-tail of charitable actions through being an agregator of niche activity from the web.

However, there’s some stuff that I think they can do to improve this even further.

I’ve put some ideas down on my blog post about this.

]]> By: Christine Egger http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2009/04/03/social-actions-change-the-web-challenge-proving-the-power-of-open-apis-for-online-fundraising-and-wider-microphilanthropy/#comment-498 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:21:28 +0000 http://givinginadigitalworld.org/?p=893#comment-498 Bryan, thank you for writing such a kind and comprehensive introduction to the Social Actions’ initiative. Heartwarming, humbling, and inspiring me to click a quick “submit” on this comment and get right back to work :)

Christine Egger
Social Actions

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