After the Community Vote, a panel of judges, selected by Social Actions, will choose three winners, to be announced at NTEN's NTC  Conference on April 28 2009. Judges will score based on the following criteria:

Applications will be judged on innovativeness, user-experience, and potential for impact.

Innovativeness

• Does the application provide an innovative solution to helping people find, share, and/or take actions online?
• How innovative is the application's use of the Social Actions API?  

User-Experience & Usability

• Is the application easy to use?
• Does it encourage the user to use it multiple times? (i.e. - Is it sticky?)
• Does the applicaiton help people find, share, and/or take action?
• How much value does the application deliver (i.e. does it offer targeted actions that are of high value to the user)?    

Potential for Impact

• How many users is the application expected to engage?
• If the application is built for a particular platform or Web site (i.e. - Facebook, Twitter, Drupal), how popular and/or engaging is that platform or Web site?  
• Does the application have a viable marketing strategy or distribution outlet.
• Is the application scaleable to enable growth- Does it scale to other platforms?
• Will the application inspire similar applications to be created?