Hello Net2, I am working on my personal intro to the NetSquared community. In the meantime, here are several statements of support for the Social Actions mashup from participating social action platforms.

By the way, the Net2 attendee list is an allstar line-up. I am super excited to connect with friends and make new ones next week.

All the best, Peter

PS -- We added RSS support for our mashup search results over the weekend. We invite you to test drive the current version of "Social Actions -- A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms."

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PledgeBank is excited to be part of the Social Actions platform because it reflects one of the fundamental philosophies behind our site: that you can do more things to create a better world in a group than you can on your own. In a world that encourages isolationism and territorialism, Social Actions reflects a real sense of collaboration -- the embodiment of working collectively for the "greater good." As a platform that is geared toward collective action, we strongly support the idea of Social Actions and are excited by the energy demonstrated by the group that is moving this idea into reality.

We encourage you -- NetSquared community members, nonprofit staff, developers, and funders -- to join this collaborative effort. We look forward to finding more ways to help people around the world do good things, whether that's donating money, building libraries, petitioning their elected representatives, or educating their friends about a cause. More good, with more people, in more ways -- that is Social Actions!

- Heather Cronk, former Outreach Coordinator, PledgeBank

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DonorsChoose.org is excited about the Social Actions mashup because we believe that this will be the first of many such efforts to open up individual involvement with the social sector. At DonorsChoose.org we have long been guided by our philosophy of citizen philanthropy, the idea that an ordinary individual should have the same level of choice, impact, transparency and accountability that has traditionally been reserved for established philanthropists. This kind of mashup has the power to extend that philosophy to encompass many more social causes and many more kinds of involvement, from microphilanthropy to volunteering. We hope this points the way toward future digital collaborations of this type.

- Michael Everett-Lane, Executive Director for the NorthEast Region, DonorsChoose

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By combining and aligning the strengths of like minded people and their web applications, Social Actions has a good chance of making a structural contribution to a world that is more transparent and fair.

-Julius Huijnk, Founder, Helpalot

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At Bring Light, our goal has always been to help donors find specific projects from legitimate charities that they can contribute to. We appreciate the work Social Actions is doing to increase the impact we can have on creating social change.

- Melissa Dyrdahl, Co-founder, BringLight

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At Firstgiving our mission is to connect people who care with the causes they care about. We want to, make it as easy as possible for them to help make a difference. Social Actions and its open API approach can help us - and others in the space - achieve this mission with greater velocity and greater impact. Every additional information channel and every additional forum helps empower people who want to make a difference, and that's good for everybody.

-Mark Sutton, CEO, Firstgiving