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News from Social Actions: "Related Ways to Take Action" Launches Today

peterdeitz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:43:58 -0400

Hello NetSquared. Joe, Eric, Christine, and I wanted you all to be among the first to know about the latest web application from Social Actions. This one is a biggy. It would never have come together without the support and connections we made at N2Y3.

Below is a excerpt from the launch announcement, called AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action

An Update (and Invite) from Social Actions

peterdeitz — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:36:42 -0400

Hi Net2, Wow, I can't believe it's already been two months since the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Since you gave Social Actions the huge honor of a third place finish at the conference, I've been keeping extremely busy and have officially brought two consultants on to help: Joe Solomon (of the KnowMore Firefox Extension) and Christine Egger (my co-presentor at N2Y3). I'll be posting a video update for all of you shortly with details on much of the work we have been doing and have planned.

For now, Christine, Joe, and I would like to invite you to a conference call about the work we've been doing for the last few months.

Here are the details

Please RSVP to this event >>

Join Social Actions founder Peter Deitz as well as Platform Liaison Christine Egger and Lead Scientist and Evangelist Joe Solomon for a 1.5 hour conference call about Social Actions and the future of micro-philanthropy. Peter, Christine, and Joe will each take 10-15 minutes to present their work on Social Actions since the NetSquared Mashup Challenge in May 2008.

We will then open the conference line for a Q&A about Social Actions and the social action platforms we're trying to help. Of course, please bring questions as well as ideas for where the project and the sector should be headed.

How to get there:

On July 30, 2008 at 2:00pm EDT (New York time), call:

+1 616-597-8000 from your U.S. phone or Skype

Access Code: 1002410#

Please RSVP to this event. We want to know how many people to expect. Thanks, Peter

Thank You for Adding "A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms" To Your Ballot

peterdeitz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:21:04 -0400

I just put together this YouTube video to thank the NetSquared voters who added A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms to their ballots.

If you voted for A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms, please send me an email. This is the only way I know when and to whom to send thank you notes.

"A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms" ready for test driving

peterdeitz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:12:44 -0400

"A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms" is ready for test driving. Over the weekend, we finished the initial build out of the system. NetSquared Mashup voters are welcome to test drive the system at: http://mashup.socialactions.com.

The initial version of the mashup allows users to:

Look, It's a Sprout Promoting a Mashup

peterdeitz — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:38:17 -0400

I just published a sprout that promotes my mashup proposal. Please have a look:

http://seed.sproutbuilder.com/uwBkG7aMAWbz_4HQ

First screenshot of "A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms"

peterdeitz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:14:55 -0400

Hi Net2, I just sent the first screenshot to the developer working on "A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms". We have built a Ruby on Rails database that parses RSS feeds from social action platforms. The plan is to also create an open API for any third party application to use when building their own mashups of peer-to-peer social change campaigns. Very exciting.

Above is a screenshot of the search form and the format of how we'll probably display the results.

NY Tech Meetup -- A video about the Social Actions Mashup Proposal

peterdeitz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:23:39 -0500

Hi Net2,

I've put together a video from my presentation at the NY Tech Meetup. The video contains remixed excerpts about my project proposal in the MashUp Challenge. Please have a look and let me know what you think.

http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/mashup-social-actions

In other news, "A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms" now has a 'lead engineer'. Cameron Booth, a developer with ZaZengo, will be leading the initial build out on this project. Our goal is to produce the first proof of concept before the voting starts on March 17. Other helping hands are needed. Please let me know if you're interested.

All the best, Peter