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Graphs for Social Actions

Social Actions – Metrics

Featured, Nerding, Nonprofiteering, Our Work on November 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Social Actions is a great project, bringing together donation and volunteer opportunity data from all around the web into a single API. It has really expanded the reach and accessability of these opportunities. We had such a great time creating the Social Actions Tuner and Social Actions continues to be more than deserving of effort by the nonprofit technology community. Why not make a new project?

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What title length is effective?

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on October 25th, 2009 No Comments

I’ve been working with Social Actions data for a while, and I think I may finally have something small and perhaps useful. Social Actions data is comprised of volunteer and donation opportunities (actions) that people around the web are searching for, and, occasionally, clicking on. I ran an analysis of the hits vs. the length [...]

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Experiences with SamaSource

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on October 12th, 2009 2 Comments

I heard about SamaSource at South by South West from @whiteafrican, @tmsruge, and some others at the Appfrica panel. Or, perhaps one of them mentioned it to me at Convio’s #nptech after party….? Either way, SamaSource is an organization which aims to connect marginalized people with outsourced technical work. I’ve been working with developers and [...]

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Parsing CSV files in Apex

Nonprofiteering, SalesForce on September 12th, 2009 4 Comments

In my grousing about the lack of easy CSV parsing in Apex, I began to feel like Paul Rudd’s character in Web Hot American Summer. Usually it’s not something you would need to do in SalesForce – the Import Wizard or Data Loader are built to do this easily for one table at a time. [...]

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Social Actions Analytics

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on September 10th, 2009 3 Comments

Social Actions recently started releasing their corpus of volunteer, donation, and other opportunities (social actions) as a nightly dump.  I think that’s super!  I’ve started setting up some analytics for the data, as I think there is a lot of wisdom and science to be found within.  The eventual goal is to do some fancy [...]

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