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Citizens Voice Social Application
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Citizens Voice is a Social networking application currently live on the Orkut Platform(http://www.orkut.com/Main#AppInfo.aspx?appId=748828388286) and iTimes platform(http://www.itimes.com/os_application_preview?app_id=43). Citizens voice will also be live on Ning by mid April and on Facebook , Web Portal by end of April.This application unleashes the power of social networking for good causes. Features include creating campaigns, petitions, polls, discussions, chat, support, e-signatures, etc. All of the campaigns, petitions and polls from all the social networks will also be live on citizensarise.com portal by the end of April. SO, we created something that totally unleashes the power of social networking for good causes. We implemented a small part of SOCIAL ACTIONS on the landing page of this application where the user is presented with the most recent Campaigns and Petitions from the Social Actions network.
This project open srouce and is released under BSD license. Source code can be found here.
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Awesome app!
Citizens Voice is an awesome app! Congrats to you and your team! I really like how you've embedded Change.org/Amazee/Care2 like feature sets into popular social networks. Maybe worth collaborating with one or more of these organizations?
It's also cool how you've added 'Recent Social Actions'. I wonder how we could up the chances of finding a good match for 'arising citizens'? Maybe 'top actions' or 'related actions' would deliver more fine-tuned matches? There's also some makeshift issue categories you could experiment with.
You might find some good resources here - 10 Secrets of the Social Actions API.
I also hope you'll join us in the Social Actions' Developers Google Group!
Looking forward to your Ning & Facebook launch - both networks I use frequently!
Cheers,
Joe Solomon
Social Actions
Feedback...
Joe,
Thanks for the review and positive feedback. We created Citizens Voice with a purpose to really allow netizens to come together in a very powerful and unique way for a better world. While this sounds like a cliche', there is no better way to describe it. Our goal is to become the contributor for Social Actions and take this application to more networks and expand the reach.
-Paul