2009 Revenue – Looking Back

Nonprofiteering, Our Work on February 1st, 2010 No Comments

This graph is a chart of how much revenue Prelude Interactive brought in last year, by month, and color coded by client.  Just like the contractors chart, there’s not a huge amount that we can learn, but it does tell a semi-accurate picture of the year.    Light Blue is my biggest nonprofit client, and their [...]

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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. [...]

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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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All For Good vs. Social Actions Smackdown (Part 1)

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on June 23rd, 2009 5 Comments

All For Good launched very recently as an aggregator of service opportunities within the United States.  Earlier this spring I got involved with Social Actions, which is an aggregator of worldwide service and micro-loan opportunities.   Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or [...]

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