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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Capturing, Subduing and Taming Technical Volunteers

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on February 9th, 2009 No Comments

This is my second post in a very short series about technical volunteers.  This topic has been capably covered before, so really, these are just my thoughts on the matter.  Jayne Cravens has some thoughtful content on the subject, among others. So, how do you make the best use of your technical volunteers and keep [...]

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Social Actions

Nonprofiteering on November 16th, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

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