Presented by Peter Deitz, Social Actions March 4, 2008 @ the NY Tech Meetup Find Social Actions. Create Social Change.

What is a Social Action Platform?

The problem with self-organizing today… 29+ social action platforms Each with its own: User base Facbeook app Tag cloud Reputation system Widget system Payment method Fee structure

29+ social action platforms

Each with its own:

User base

Facbeook app

Tag cloud

Reputation system

Widget system

Payment method

Fee structure

Platforms built to empower individuals… Place the full responsibility for amplifying a campaign on the campaign creators Compel potential collaborators to find interesting campaigns by visiting each platform separately As a result… Peer-to-peer social change doesn’t happen on the scale that it could be ?

Place the full responsibility for amplifying a campaign on the campaign creators

Compel potential collaborators to find interesting campaigns by visiting each platform separately

As a result…

Peer-to-peer social change doesn’t happen on the scale that it could be

What is Social Actions? “ A sure sign of maturity in any market is an aggregation site that pulls data from many of these sites: Social Actions does just that.” -

Currently, Social Actions consists of… A search engine and RSS feed generator A wizard to help people launch their own campaigns A complete guide to sixteen social action platforms A blog about the peer-to-peer social change movement

A search engine and RSS feed generator

A wizard to help people launch their own campaigns

A complete guide to sixteen social action platforms

A blog about the peer-to-peer social change movement

And I’m currently working on… An open standard for creating mashups of the 29+ social action platforms + = A continuously updated repository of peer-to-peer social change campaigns

An open standard for creating mashups of the 29+ social action platforms

The Social Actions API An open standard for indexing peer-to-peer social change campaigns Available to any 3 rd party web application or online community Resulting in the unrestricted flow of social change campaigns. OpenSocial

An open standard for indexing peer-to-peer social change campaigns

Available to any 3 rd party web application or online community

Resulting in the unrestricted flow of social change campaigns.

Possible Mashups of Social Action Platforms Other ideas: Campaign listings for nonprofits Newsfeeds for individuals An ‘Adwords’-style widget A recommendation engine A Digg-like voting system All kinds of visual representations of the dataset A global map A universal tag cloud

Other ideas:

Campaign listings for nonprofits

Newsfeeds for individuals

An ‘Adwords’-style widget

A recommendation engine

A Digg-like voting system

All kinds of visual representations of the dataset

The NetSquared Mashup Challenge www.netsquared.org/mashup Voting starts on mach 17, 2008 Help build the first mashup of 29+ social action platforms! www.socialactions.com [email_address]