Our Net2 write up

[Peter Deitz]

Hi all,

Jennie from TechSoup asked me for responses to the following questions.
They were due yesterday at noon PDT, but I managed to get an extension
until this morning. Below are the responses I sent to Jennie. Let me
know if you think I hit all the right points, or if there's room for
improvement. These responses will appear in the printed brochure that
conference attendees receive.

All the best,
peter

a. Photo. 1" by 1" high resolution Photo of yourself or your team
(I attached a picture of me in the email I sent to Jennie)

b. Additional Project URL - (either outside the NetSquared.org domain or
a supporting organization) if applicable
http://mashup.socialactions.com

c. Updated Mashup Challenge Elevator Pitch (200 Characters)

Social Actions aggregates peer-to-peer social change campaigns so that
individuals, organizations, and 3rd-party developers can find, support
and mashup grassroots solutions to local and global problems.

d. Speed-geek 7 Q's:

i. What problem are you trying to address? (200 characters max)

Peer-to-peer social change campaigns can get lost in the platforms on
which they were created. As a result, people aren’t finding the highest
quality and most relevant opportunities for social engagement.

ii. How does your Mashup provide a solution to the problem? (200
characters max)

Social Actions aggregates active campaigns from 29+ platforms into a
single open API and search interface. This innovation permits
individuals and web apps to run queries on the dataset as a whole.

iii. What changes in the world because of your Mashup? (200 characters max)

We see a huge potential in 29+ platforms to promote peer-to-peer social
change. We’re pursuing this work to amplify their impact and to bring
about a world in which everyone is a changemaker.

iv. What information/data will people interact with? (200 characters max
(links encouraged!))

Social Actions combines XML feeds of the latest peer-to-peer social
change campaigns from a range of <a
href="http://www.socialactions.com/meet-the-platforms">social action
platforms</a>. The aggregator uses mark-up in the feeds to identify
semantic data relating to the location, subject, time-frame, and goal of
each campaign.

v. What have you done in the past to give supporters the idea that you
can pull this off? (200 characters max)

Social Actions has built excellent relationships with 29+ social action
platforms. The platforms support our effort to aggregate actionable
content from their platforms.

vi. How will you distribute your Mashup? (200 characters)

We will find partners who want to draw on the open API of actionable
content. These partners will create widgets and web apps that list
relevant actions on highly trafficked websites and social networks.

vii. How will you encourage use of your Mashup application? (200 characters)

Our success depends on partnerships with 3rd party developers. Their
implementations of the Social Actions open API will attract a user-base
and help to filter actions based on relevance and quality.

e. Phase - Please identify which Phase your project is in (I -
Concept/Ideation, II - Design, III - Hackable)

Hackable

f. Quote - Please provide NetSquared with a small quote that speaks to
some aspect of the Mashup experience so far (can be related to a
success, an unforeseen relationship, community response, collaboration
efforts, etc.).

"The NetSquared Mashup Challenge has turbo-charged my advocacy for open
standards and data portability in the online social activism space.
Thank you NetSquared!" -Peter Deitz, Social Actions founder

[Christine]

Really fantastic, Peter. It's challenging say all the right things in
200 characters or less but I think you nailed it!

Christine

[Heather Cronk]

Looks great to me, too, Peter -- well done!!

[Ethan Austin]

ditto.

[Peter Deitz]

Thanks Ethan, Heather, and Christine.

All the best,
Peter

Ethan Austin wrote:
> ditto.
>
> On 5/6/08, *Heather Cronk* <heathe...@gmail.com