Social actions toolset

Use these tools on your site to promote relevant social actions

In the spring of 2009, our friends at Social Actions held a Change the Web Challenge and handed out $10,000 in awards to public-spirited organizations. The only requirements were that participants must release the code under an open source license and make use of the Social Actions API, which makes it easy to surface social cause opportunities. (Here’s what an API is.)

Following is a collection of the widgets, plug-ins, extensions, Web & mobile applications, mashups and tools that draw on the Social Actions API, making it easy for you or your organization to incorporate these tools into your own site:

Widgets & Web apps

• Micro-Lending Widget: Widget that shares micro-loan opportuntiies from Kiva.org and Wokai
• Related Ways to Take Action: Add related ways to take action to your website or blog.
• Social Actions Embeddable Widget: Create a customzied widget (size, type of action, issue) that displays actions on your website
• Social Actions Widget #5: Displays the most recent actions from Social Actions in a WidgetBox widget
• Take Action Button: Add a “Take Action” button to your website that once clicked displays actions related to your content
• Take Action on Poverty widget: Shares way to take action on poverty on your blog or website
• Take Action iGoogle Gadget: Find and save Social Actions from your iGoogle Homepage
  

Drupal modules

• Social Actions Drupal Module

WordPress plug-ins

• Related Ways to Take Action: Share related ways to take action on the bottom of your blog posts
• Related Classroom Projects: Share related classroom projects from DonorsChoose.org on the bottom of your blog posts
• Social Actions WordPress Widget: Displays related social actions as a widget in sidebar
• Change The World WordPress Plugin: Admin plugin that shares inspiring lyrics and makes it easy to search for actions with the query “change+the+world”

Twitter mashups

• Social Friends: Find people on Twitter who have referred to social actions
• Twitter Action Pack: Subscribe to 33+ Twitter accounts to get alerts of actions for the issues you care about
• Social Actions Twitter feed: Use Twitter to share actions for your favorite cause

Social network apps

• Charity Meter [Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Orkut]: Share the projects you’ve donated to and invite your friends to give too
• Citizens Voice Social Application [Orkut, iTimes]: Join and create campaigns for positive change
  
• Social Actions for Facebook: Discover and share actions with your friends on Facebook
• Volunteer Connect [Facebook]: Find volunteer opportunities on Facebook

Firefox extensions

• Take Action on Any Website: Ubiquity command
• CauseSense: Replace ads with related actions
• Take Action Button: Click “Take Action” on any website, find related actions
• Social Actions Search: Adds a Social Actions search box
• Link Extend: Supercharge your search experience, find actions, too

Political mashups

• BeyondtheBite: Find ways to take action next to congressmen’s sound bites
• GovTrack.us: Find ways to take action on the bills you care about
  
• District-By-District Organizing Tool: Find events from Social Actions in your congressional district

Mobile apps

• Social Actions Alerts: Get alerts of actions for the issues you care about on your mobile phone
• SquarePeg iPhone App: Search for, share, and subscribe to actions through your iPhone
• Social Actions on Mobile: Helps you to search, browse and share actions from your mobile phone

Website & Web mashups

• Democracia 2.0: A web portal to share, vote and create actions to be taken by the community
• Social Connect: Search for actions and share them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
• SocialActives: Also a Web portal to share, vote and create actions to be taken by the community

Maps & visualizations

• Social Actions Interactive Map: Find actions all over the world via an interactive map
• Social Actions Map: Create a customized query and depict the actions on a map

Tools & components

• Social Actions Tuner: A way to find the volunteer and donation opportunities you’re interested in more quickly
• Zemanta’s Related Social Actions For Bloggers: Tool for bloggers to easily add related ways to take action next to your posts

Do you have an idea for a web application using the Social Actions API? Please share it with Social Actions at Social Actions’ Developers Google Group! You can support Social Actions development here.

Have an app you’d like added to this collection? Please email Peter@SocialActions.com.

This article originally appeared on the Social Actions site and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 2.5 license.