Change the Web Launch Week Roundup! (Most Amazing Week Ever!)

Social Actions' launched the Change the Web Challenge this past week - and it was the most amazing launch ever! Really, I've never seen such an awesome group of people and orgs rally their communities to get involved (except for maybe the Obama campaign!).

We wanted to wrap up this amazing week by highlighting some of the awesome posts that mentioned the Change the Web Challenge:

Social Actions' launch post!

Amy Sample Ward lit up the NetSquared blog with a Change the Web launch announcement (our official host)!

Beth Kanter rocked her blog with the Challenge - writing that "we'll see better results through effective collaborations between nonprofit fundraisers and application developers."

Marc van Gurp of Osocio shared the Change the Web Challenge with their community (right after recovering from their site being hacked!).

Rob Lewis of TechVibes covered the Challenge and featured the Twitter Action Pack!

Wendy Cohen rallied Participant Media's TakePart community to get involved !

GraphicDesignBasics highlighted the Challenge on their blog.

Tom Watson invited CauseWired readers to get involved and "quite literally change the web for the better."

Tom Watson, always prolific, also profiled Social Actions and the Change the Web Challenge within the online cause-wired phenomenon - on the Chronicle of Philanthropy Website (Thanks @Lend4Health!)

The Podnosh blog featured Social Actions' Related Ways to Take Action WordPress Plugin (Which WordPress featured this week!)

Qui Diaz of Livingston Communications beat us to the punch with an awesome launch post + shared a number of great ideas for Challenge submissions!

The Mozilla blog featured the Challenge, rallying the Mozilla community to get involved! Harnessing Firefox Add-ons & Web Apps to Make Change

The Mozilla Add-Ons blog also shared a guest post - An Invitation to Create Firefox Extensions for Good Causes (which climbed to the homepage of FoxieWire!)

See3 Communications invited their readers to answer the question "How Can You Change the Web?" See3's EarthFirst.com also featured the post Change the Web, Save the Earth (Great post title!)

Replyforall started circulating 'Change the Web' creatives in their email signature! And it is hot!

TheExtraordinaries and ChangeAction shared Marnie's Webb Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as you browse the web and find related ways to take action!

The XOOPS blog encouraged their developers to participate in the Challenge.

Abny Santicola of Fundraising Success Magazine did an excellent feature article on the Change the Web Challenge + an interview with Social Actions' Founder/Executive Director Peter Deitz.

Stanford Social Innovation Review featured Change the Web in their newsletter! (Thanks Loreal!)

Heloisa has been doing an amazing job spreading the word on her blog Maffalda, and this week translated the launch of the Challenge into Portuguese!

Jill Finlayson of Social Edge featured Change the Web + shot out a link in their newsletter!

John Philip Habaradas truly captured the Challenge with this statement: "Not only does it create new applications and technology but it also increases people’s awareness and participation on relevant social issues."

Tamar Weinberg of Mashable featured Change the Web in Mashable's weekly event roundup !

Holly Ross tweeted the launch with us and Brett Meyer invited NTEN blog readers to "get cracking" and "code for a cause." (We're with you, Brett!)

And Lloyd Budd of WordPress made poetry out of the Challenge, closing with a strong call to arms for WordPress developers: "The grand prize is 50 benjis...But the real prize is spreading a little more love in the world...Let’s show them how we change the web the WordPress way!"

Thank you everyone for spreading the word to your contacts, your networks, and for tweeting with us this week!

The next five weeks are promising to be a wild ride! (submissions close April 3rd).

Please join us as we take off on a journey to add actions all over the web!

• Social Actions Developers Group
• Twitter: @ChangetheWeb
• Change the Web Facebook Group

Find out more at: http://www.socialactions.com/changetheweb