I’ve been nodding along with both sides of the ‘slactivism’ debate for a few months. Is it a good thing to give people small, low (but not zero) impact opportunities to help out causes? Do micro-donations and micro-volunteering discourage later, more significant engagement? Well, either nobody knows for sure, or nobody has measured it, or [...]
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
See Part 1 if you need some background. This part is more for web nerds, or people who aren’t afraid of learning some of our arcane rituals and glyphs. I’m going to assume you’re familiar with and have used REST APIs in the past. If not, I’m going to make a wild stab at an [...]
