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 [...]
In the spring of 2009 we helped create a unique tool for connecting people with volunteer and donation opportunities, as part of the Change the Web challenge. It’s a great contest, and a cool technology, but it needs some explanation….
Last fall I had an business idea for the nonprofit and cause advocacy – allow people to look up their representatives through all levels of government with their address. I did some sleuthing, found that the service was possible, and that already existed in several forms. Most prominently, the CapWiz product from Capitol Advantage. I [...]
Instead of doing the work I’m supposed to be doing, which is to finally turn the tide against MEGA PROJECT that has been consuming my life for weeks, I spent 3 hours (and counting) backing up all the important data on my computer.
I’ve learned some interesting (ahem… interesting to me) things.
I have pretty much every [...]
I stumbled across an interesting RSS feed a week or two ago (thanks to Google Reader, not Stumble Upon, despite the fact that I stumbled upon it). It’s called Social Actions, and it might be trying to dragging the nonprofit/NGO/volunteer technology and data marketplace into the Web 2.0 era. In particular, I think the “Change [...]
