Geeking For Good » social actions http://geekingforgood.com Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:43:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Social Actions http://geekingforgood.com/2009/10/social-actions/ http://geekingforgood.com/2009/10/social-actions/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:11:00 +0000 Lauren http://geekingforgood.com/2009/10/social-actions/ Earlier this year I attended the ConnectingUp Australia conference and had the pleasure of meeting Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions. I love the idea of the “open philanthropic web” that Social Actions is creating. The platform provides many opportunities for people wanting to take action relating to the causes they are passionate about.

With over 60 action sources, there is a constant stream of ways for people to change the world. The Social Actions API is where the real beauty of Social Actions lies. Developers can take the data and create any number of mashups – such as web widgets, Wordpress plugins, Facebook apps and Twitter feeds.

The action sources are US- and UK-centric, however that does not stop Australians from using the platform. Two quick ways to take advantage of Social Actions is using Twitter or Delicious.

  • Twitter – use the hashtag #takeaction in your tweets.
  • Delicious – use the tag takeaction when saving bookmarks.

These will then be picked up by the Social Actions API – I told you it was simple!

My first foray into playing with the Social Actions data was to create @OzActions – which tweets Australia-related actions. It took less than five minutes. You can follow this or any of the other Twitter Action Packs to be alerted of opportunities relating to issues you care about.

Leave a comment, or connect with me at my.socialactions.com.

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