(to learn the basics about My Social Actions, click here)
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Community Engagement Intern
Posted to Idealist.org on 12/9/09
Our Vision
A world in which expressions of generosity, empathy, and creativity are happening everywhere and take the form of meaningful action.
Our Mission
Gather and disseminate an open database of actions that anyone, anywhere, can take right now to make a difference.
Opportunity
We're looking for a Community Engagement Intern to help manage and grow Social Actions' online communities.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and implement Social Actions' social media strategy
- Send introductions, answer questions, highlight community members and group activity, and otherwise engage with Social Actions' community on My Social Actions, Twitter, and Facebook
- Make introductions between Social Actions community members with shared interests
- Help prepare weekly round-ups of news and happenings in Social Actions community
- Participate in weekly Social Actions team calls
Commitment
Hours are flexible (~8h+ / week). Work is remote -- from your computer at home or in a cafe. The ideal candidate will be friendly, outgoing, and an excellent communicator in English.
For more information
Visit Social Actions and our community site, My Social Actions.
Application instructions
Please send us a summary of your offline and online community engagement experience, and any other information we should know about who you are and why you're drawn to this opportunity.
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Social Actions-inspired Storytelling
Draw attention to the amazing people, projects, and organizations who share Social Actions' mission of engagement in the causes people care about
These could include:
Ways to get involved:
- Write about or interview or otherwise draw attention to any or all of the above
- Keep Social Actions in the loop on where these write-ups or interviews etc. are posted so we can draw additional attention to them
Examples:
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Social Actions' Conversation Series
Bringing practitioners and experts together for engaged discussion
Conversations to date (add links to transcripts, posts):
- Embedded Philanthropy Blog Series
- OpenSocial for Social Change
- Twitter for Good
- iPhones for Good
- Leveraging the Convio Open Initiative for Nonprofits
- How Can Mozilla Empower Movements and Nonprofits
- Using Facebook for Social Change
Proposed conversations:
- Social Media for Social Change
- What would you like to discuss?
Ways to get involved:
- Sponsor an online or offline conversation series
- Host or facilitate
- Participate
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Social Actions Action Sources
Online sources for taking action
Social Actions is the web's only open-door, open-source, cross-platform aggregation of actions people can take on the issues they care about. As of this writing there are over 80,000 actions in Social Actions' search results, coming from over 60 unique online platforms. That's alot of actions, but there are SO MANY MORE opportunities to take action that aren't yet included in the Social Actions API. Increasing the number of action sources participating in the Social Actions API has an immediate and significant impact on peoples' ability to find the actions that are most relevant to them.
To include more action sources in the Social Actions API, we need to connect with these organizations, encourage them to develop an RSS feed if they don't already have one, and assist their creating a profile for Social Actions' Action Source Guide.
Ways to get involved:
- Platform Liaison
- Outreach and relationship-building with the action source community
- Sponsor the Platform Liaison position
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Social Actions Robust Dataset
Our goal at Social Actions is to provide a truly robust and detailed description of each opportunity to take action on the issues people care about.
To do that, we'll need more data. Through 2008, Social Actions has relied on existing open standards to aggregate information about opportunities to make a difference created on our 60+ platform partners. At the same time, in collaboration with our partners, we have developed an enhanced open standard called Open Actions, for describing philanthropic activities. Open Actions builds on the existing XML standards of RSS and Atom. We have designed it to be versatile and extendible.
Ways to get involved:
- Financially support Social Actions' role in promoting the development of an enhanced open standard for online philanthropic opportunities.
- Participate in the development of an enhanced open standard (add links to on- and offline sources of information, involvement)
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Social Actions News Round-ups
Weekly round-ups of news and recent discoveries in the online social activism sector
These round-ups are one of the most popular services we provide. They're syndicated on My Social Actions, NetSquared, Take Part (a website from Participant Media), Cause Global, and Cause Wired.
Social Actions Round-ups published to date:
http://my.socialactions.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=saroundup
Ways to get involved:
- Round-up Lead
- Research and prepare the weekly Round-up (see this link for suggested process)
- About 2-4 hours each week
- Sponsorship
- Weekly ($450) and monthly ($1,250) sponsorships are available consecutively or at regular intervals (for example, sponsorship of the first week of every month).
- Sponsorships include a featured link and elevator pitch for your organization in the header and footer of each round-up.
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Social Actions' Consulting
Social Actions' team helps individuals and organizations use social media to engage more people in making a difference. We help:
- Nonprofits engage individuals as full partners in fundraising and communications
- Foundations tap into the creativity of social networks to build innovative programs
- Companies involve customers and employees in grassroots forms of CSR
- Individuals leverage personal and professional networks to effect change
Ways to get involved:
- Join the team! Connect social media expertise to your
- Sponsor Social Actions' consulting development ($1,000/month)
- Help us keep up with the demand for these services by bringing in the resources we need to manage a diverse and growing client portfolio.
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Social Actions Design
Spiffy up a Social Actions project or site
Ways to get involved:
- Add your name here if you'd like to be tapped for your graphic designeriffic skills :)
- Support the financial costs of bringing graphic design support on board
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Social Actions Bookkeeper
Social Actions is seeking a bookkeeper whose duties will include monitoring accounts payable and accounts receivable, generating financials, creating/entering/monitoring budgets. Social Actions uses Freshbooks to generate invoices (which can be imported into Quickbooks). Our fiscal sponsor is responsible for bank records, deposits, and tax reporting.
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