Social Actions is Proud to Announce the Change the Web Challenge!

Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday.

Social Actions (a N2Y3 winner) has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 50+ sites - including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, Nabuur, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Now we want to get these actions out there - onto the Web sites, blogs and social networks that millions of people visit everyday. Next time inspiration strikes you, the opportunities to take action will be but one click away.

For a better sense of what we mean, let's take a look at a few of the Web apps already powered by Social Actions:

• 'Related Ways to Take Action' WordPress Plugin: A plugin you can add to any WordPress.org blog that identifies the keywords of each blog posts and then displays related ways to take action.
• Twitter Action Pack: A directory of 30+ Twitter accounts that automatically post actions on the issues you care about.
• Firefox Ubiquity Command: A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action.

We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Any Web enabled device can become a place to connect with actions: your iPhone, news sites and blogs, Facebook & other social networks, or even in your own Web site! We're excited to see what you come up with!

Did we mention that there's also $10,000+ in prizes!

Resources

• Got an idea? Check out our Developer Resources Page.
• Looking for inspiration? Check out the Social Actions Idea Hub.
• Share your progress w/the new Social Actions Developers Google Group!

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How it Works

Social Actions is facilitating this challenge to encourage innovations for distributing opportunities to make a difference across the Internet and mobile devices. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 20 finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by Social Actions will choose three winners from among the 20 finalists, to be announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 28, 2009. Winners will receive cash awards of $5,000 (first place), $3,000 (second place), and $2,000 (third place).

Individuals and organizations are invited to share their projects with the community through the NetSquared submission form. To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API.

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How to Apply

Four Easy Steps to Participate:

• Register and/or Login
• Click on Username
• Click on "Submit a Project to the Project Gallery" under My Project Idea
• Select "ChangetheWeb" from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form

Please note that at this time our Submission Form does not support Safari or Chrome. Please use either Internet Explorer, Opera, or Firefox. If you'd like to use Safari or Chrome you will need to disable JavaScript in your browser in order to fill out the Submission Form, which may inadvertently also disable the editor. We are working on a solution and hope to have this fixed soon.

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Rules and Guidelines

Be sure to carefully review the Rules and Guidelines.

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Key Dates

• February 23, 20009 - Submission Period Begins 11:00am PST
• April 3, 2009 - Submission Period Ends 3:00pm PDT
• April 6, 2009 - Community Voting Begins 11:00am PDT
• April 10, 2009 - Community Voting Closes 3:00pm PDT
• April 13, 2009 - Top Twenty Finalists Announced 11:00am PDT
• April 28, 2009 - Winners announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference

Project Gallery

To View Participants please check the Change the Web Project Gallery

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FAQ

Be sure to read all FAQ

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Judging Criteria

Be sure to read all the Judging Criteria

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