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Peter Deitz Social Actions Round-Up #24: Government Enters Social Media for Social Change Movement

As a child of the 80's (okay, very late 70's), I am used to government having very little (if any) involvement in technology driven initiatives (outside of the military), and certainly not technology for a purpose.

Enter the Obama Administration. Suddenly, there's a Director of Citizen Participation and a Department of Social Innovation. Woah! This round-up just touches the surface: mentioning the appointment of a former Google executive to the Obama administration, highlighting the Ut

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Added by Peter Deitz on February 5, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Round-Up #23: MLK Day of Service and the Obama Inauguration

Below is a special MLK day / Obama inauguration version of the Social Actions round-up. We have added a section with links to MLK and Obama-related initiatives. Feel free to add resources by posting a comment.

Above is 7 year-old Gerra Gistand, winner of Houston's MLK Oratory Competition

MLK / Day of Service / Obama Inauguration

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Added by Peter Deitz on January 21, 2009 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Peter Deitz Social Actions Round-Up #22: Online Giving Markets Hit The Ground Running in 2009

Online giving markets and other websites that facilitate online action hit the ground running in 2009. Below is our latest weekly round-up of news and recent discoveries.

News Roundup

SocialEdge is welcoming applications for the annual Global Social Benefit Incubat

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Added by Peter Deitz on January 12, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Round-Up #21: The New Year Gets Started with Two Changes and a CauseWired

The Case Foundation -- Change Begins With Me

Over the holidays, online changemakers did not cease to churn out news. Below you will find the latest Social Actions round-up, bringing us up to date with

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Added by Peter Deitz on January 5, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Round-Up #20: Week of December 8-14

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism - This round-up is a summary of the links that surfaced in the last 7 days. You can share links and news for future Social Actions rounds-ups in the Peer-to-Peer Social Change FriendFeed Room. Check out past roundups h

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Added by Peter Deitz on December 15, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Christine Egger Social Actions Roundup #19: Time to vote in USAID's first open source challenge!

This week’s roundup draws attention to two contests that illustrate the impact social media technologies are having on not just private and nonprofit initiatives, but public spending as well.

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Added by Christine Egger on December 8, 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Peter Deitz Social Actions Roundup #18: New Reports and Revolutions in Fundraising

Despite the holiday schedule, we witnessed an explosion of reports, articles and presentations over the last seven days on how the online philanthropic landscape is shifting. In this round up, you'll find links to material from The Hewlett Foundation, The MacAurther F

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Added by Peter Deitz on December 1, 2008 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup #17

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism - This round-up is a summary of the links that surfaced in the last 7 days. You can now share links and news for future Social Actions rounds ups in the

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Added by JoeSolomon on November 23, 2008 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup #16: Spot.us Launches & More!

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Added by JoeSolomon on November 16, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup #15 - Change Marches On!

Photo by David Reece

The desire for "change" was one of the biggest themes for this past US election -- captivating millions to get involved, break fund raising records, and vote for a new president

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Added by JoeSolomon on November 9, 2008 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions (Mini) Roundup #14

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism and we share these links in the form of a "Roundup." This week's round-up is a couple days early and is a "mini-edition" - as a lot's been going on in the world of Social Actions and the team is taking a long weekend to rest and rejuvenate. Enjoy!

1 - Philanthropy 2173:

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Added by JoeSolomon on October 22, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup 13 - Conference Extravaganza: Social Capital Markets, The Feast + MobileActive08

There were at least three awesome social change conferences this week! The week started off with a bang with Social Capital Markets. The SoCap08 blog team did an excellent job covering this 3-day event. You can also check out a few videos from SoCap08 on Fora.tv

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Added by JoeSolomon on October 18, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup 12 – Change.org Re-launches with Social Change Blog Network

This week came the much anticipated re-launch of Change.org! The new Change.org combines online news channels (blogs) that focus on specific issues (i.e. - climate change) with relevant ways to get involved and take action. With a rock-star

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Added by JoeSolomon on October 10, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup 11 - DonorsChoose.org Launches Bloggers Challenge 2008!

DonorsChoose.org

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Added by JoeSolomon on October 3, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup 10! (Our 10th Roundup - w00t!)

I'm super excited to publish our tenth roundup! We started social actions roundups earlier this summer as an
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Added by JoeSolomon on September 26, 2008 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

JoeSolomon SocialActions Roundup9 - Welcome Amazee!

Amazee, a social collaboration platform for public projects, launched a whole new version this week!

Amazee joined the Social Actions community

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Added by JoeSolomon on September 20, 2008 at 12:30am — 5 Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup8 - Action Platforms Explode @ TechCrunch50 and DEMO!

There were two huge tech/Web 2.0 conferences this week - TechCrunch50 and DEMO. Numerous startups debuted and demo'd - including Zazengo (a Social Actions partner) and 3 other awesome action platform startups:

DEMO + TechCrunch50:

Zazengo presents @ at the DEMOfall 08 conference - Watch

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Added by JoeSolomon on September 12, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup7 - Get Your Social Actions News On Twitter! (@SocialActions)

Want to know the secret source where we get the majority of our platform news and updates? From Twitter! The Social Actions Twitter account is combined feed of about 30 action platform blogs. On Twitter? - get the news here! Not

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Added by JoeSolomon on September 5, 2008 at 8:30pm — 5 Comments

JoeSolomon Social Actions Roundup6 - Kiva.org Lights up w/New Features & Spot.us is Everywhere! (+More!)

Each week, Social Actions community members post links and news about online social activism to the Social Actions Round Up group. The following round-up is a summary of the links that surfaced in the last 7 days.

Platform News:

Kiva.org adds two new features – Partial Repayments and Lending Teams (Want to join a lending

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Added by JoeSolomon on August 30, 2008 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Peter Deitz AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action

Note: We are asking people to Digg this launch announcement. (At last check, 252 people have dugg the article.)

Social Actions is proud to announce the launch of a revolutionary widget that recommends to readers of your blo

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Added by Peter Deitz on August 20, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

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