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Christine Egger Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and 3BL Businesses: Notes from 2009 Net Impact Conference session

This past Friday I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the 2009 Net Impact Conference: Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and Triple Bottom Line Businesses What… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on November 17, 2009 at 10:48am — No Comments

Christine Egger Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and 3BL Businesses: Notes from 2009 Net Impact Conference session

This past Friday I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the 2009 Net Impact Conference: Creating a Network to Nurture Social Entrepreneurs and Triple Bottom Line Businesses What… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on November 17, 2009 at 10:45am — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions and Open Data Standards: A conversation is building

Watching several conversations unfold related to open data, and open data standards, for the philanthropic sector. I caught up with most of them just last night, and had a hard time falling asleep. It's fantastic to feel the momentum shift from either-or questions about whether an organization should be transparent or not, to the kind of nuanced Q&A engaged in here. Of course, I'm excited, especially, for the potential to more broadly encourage data standards for the nonprofit sector (see Ma… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on November 4, 2009 at 3:57pm — 2 Comments

Christine Egger Networks, social change, and tech tools

On her Philanthropy 2173 blog, Lucy Bernholz recently posted a request for "examples of networks that have made some kind of positive social change happen. Ideally these are networks that: * Consist of unaffiliated individuals, not coalitions or alliances of existing nonprofits * Made something concrete, and socially positive, happen * Continue to exist after making a change - so they ar… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on October 19, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Adds Five New Action Sources; Connects to the WiserEarth API

Today, we added five new action sources to the Social Actions API, an open database of opportunities to make a difference. For a full list and profiles of the latest innovators contributing to Social Actions, please see Our Guide to 60+ Action Sources. As part of this update, we're excited to announce that Social Actions has connected to the WiserEarth API. Applications… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on September 11, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

ehren foss Analytics

Another cross-post from my blog at http://preludeinteractive.com Social Actions recently started releasing their corpus of volunteer, donation, and other opportunities (social actions) as a nightly dump. I think that's super! I've started setting up some analytics for the data, as I think there is a lot of wisdom and scie… Continue

Added by ehren foss on September 10, 2009 at 8:46pm — 1 Comment

Christine Egger Social Entrepreneur API launches at SOCAP09

It’s a thrill to share today's public launch of the Social Entrepreneur API, formally announced at SOCAP09. From the project's website: Lifting the Social Sector: Fellowship and Award Programs Collaborate to Make Data about Social Entrepreneurs More Accessible Civi… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on September 2, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Peter Deitz The Future of Social Actions, Part III: A Constellation of Consultants

Over the next several weeks, I will be thinking out loud about the Future of Social Actions. Our initiative is approaching its two year anniversary at the end of August, and would benefit from some community participation in creating a long-term plan going forward. I hope this blog post, and others in the series, w… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on July 28, 2009 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Peter Deitz Open Standards, Yes We Can

(Source: Robotson on Flickr) I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture a… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on July 17, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Peter Deitz Jolkona Foundation and UniversalGiving Join the Social Actions API

Today, Social Actions added two new action sources to its open database of opportunities to make a difference. For a full list and profiles of the latest innovators contributing to Social Actions, please see Our Guide to 50+ Action Sources.

New Action Sources

Jolkona Foundation -> Donate Un… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on July 14, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Peter Deitz The Future of Social Actions, Part II: Projects in the Pipeline

Over the next several weeks, I will be thinking out loud about the Future of Social Actions. Our initiative is approaching its two year anniversary at the end of August, and would benefit from some community participation in creating a long-term plan going forward. I hope this blog post, and others in the series, w… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on July 8, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Peter Deitz The Future of Social Actions, Part I: Partners and Projects

Over the next several weeks, I will be thinking out loud about the Future of Social Actions. Our initiative is approaching its two year anniversary at the end of August, and would benefit from some community participation in creating a long-term plan going forward. I hope this blog post, and others in the series, w… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on July 7, 2009 at 10:30am — 7 Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions in Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) July 2009 Issue

Social Actions had the opportunity to share its story in the July 2009 issue of Open Source Business Resource (OSBR), a peer-reviewed monthly publication for individuals and organizations contributing to, and interested in, open source projects and technologies.… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on July 3, 2009 at 8:56am — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions Community Call, July 2009

On July 1, 2009, Social Actions convened a Community Conference Call. Below is the transcript from that discussion ~ Participants Jason Mott Ehren Foss Amy Sample Ward Megan Schiebe Celin… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on July 2, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions conference calls this week: community (7/1) and developers (7/3)

Social Actions will host two conference calls this week to share some exciting news and planned activities, and invite community members (as always!) to participate as full partners in shaping the next several months of Social Actions' initiative.… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on June 29, 2009 at 4:10pm — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Edge discussion on competition and collaboration: 48 hour check in

Over on Social Edge, Peter's hosting a discussion about competition and collaboration. The introduction, cross-posted on My Social Actions here, draws attention to the relationship between All for Good and Social Actions as a case study and invitation to jump into a broad consideration of these themes for the ent… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on June 25, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Adds Six New Action Sources; Partners with Innovators in India, South Africa, and the UK

Today, Social Actions added six new action sources to our open database of opportunities to make a difference. For a full list and profiles of the latest innovators contributing to Social Actions, please see Our Guide to 50+ Action Sources.

New Action Sources

GiveIndia -> Donate… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on June 25, 2009 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Peter Deitz Join the Discussion: Competition or Collaboration?

This week, I am hosting a discussion on SocialEdge.org called, Competition or Collaboration?. I look forward to your contributions to the discussion. Please don't be shy. This is an important conversation to have out in the open, and a timely moment to have it.… Continue

Added by Peter Deitz on June 23, 2009 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

Mike Everett-Lane Servezilla!

Spread Firefox Affiliate Button Mozilla, the friendly folks who make your Firefox web browser and a whole lot more besides, have announced the launch of Mozilla Service Week. Mozilla will be bringing together the open-source community… Continue

Added by Mike Everett-Lane on June 15, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Christine Egger All for Good and Social Actions conference call transcript and takeaways

Last Friday, Social Actions hosted a conference call for its 50+ action sources and other partners to discuss the launch of a new platform called All for Good (event description and list of 60+ participants posted h… Continue

Added by Christine Egger on June 15, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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