Social Actions App Directory

A comprehensive collection of the widgets, plugins, extensions, web & mobile applications, mashups, and tools that draw on the Social Actions API, distributing opportunities to take action across the web. Click here if you want to learn more about them. 

The most popular are shown in this color. 

Shortened URL for this page: http://bit.ly/ActionAppDirectory
 

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Widgets & Web Apps

• temporarily disabled: Related Ways to Take Action - Add related ways to take action to your website or blog
• temporarily disabled: Social Actions Embeddable Widget - Create a customized widget (size, type of action, issue) that displays actions on your website
• Zemanta's Related Social Actions For Bloggers - Tool for bloggers to easily add related ways to take action next to your posts  
• Take Action Button - Add a "Take Action" button to your website that once clicked displays actions related to your content 
• Amazeeng - Widget that lets you search all projects on Amazee.com
• Giveback's "Take Action Widget" - Delivers relevant actions to any content site on the web + tracks impact
• Micro-Lending Widget - Widget that shares micro-loan opportuntiies from Kiva.org and Wokai
• "Social Actions Widget #5" - Displays the most recent actions from Social Actions in a WidgetBox widget
• Take Action on Poverty widget - Shares way to take action on poverty on your blog or website (in collaboration with BlogActionDay 2009)
• Take Action iGoogle Gadget - Find and save Social Actions from your iGoogle Homepage
• Johnson & Johnson &you™ widget - A free widget that connects individuals with charitable organizations. Users build their custom &you™ widgets in three steps to keep them engaged with causes, events, and volunteer opportunities near them.  

WordPress Plugins

• temporarily disabled: Related Ways to Take Action - Add related ways to take action to your website or blog. (Included in "Widgets & Web Apps" above, too)
• Related Classroom Projects - Share related classroom projects from DonorsChoose.org on the bottom of your blog posts
• temporarily disabled: Social Actions WordPress Widget - Displays related social actions as a widget in the sidebar of your Wordpress blog
• Change The World WordPress Plugin - Admin plugin that shares inspiring lyrics and makes it easy to search for actions with the query "change+the+world"

Twitter Mashups

• Twitter Action Pack - Subscribe to any or all of 40+ Twitter accounts to get alerts of actions for the issues you care about
• Social Friends - Find people on Twitter who have referred to social actions
• Twitter Trends - Discover actions related to the latest Twitter trends
• Use Twitter to Share Actions for your Favorite Cause

Social Network Apps

• Charity Meter [Ning, Orkut] - Share the projects you've donated to and invite your friends to give too
• Citizens Voice Social Application [Orkut, iTimes] - Join and create campaigns for positive change
• Social Actions for Facebook - Discover and share actions with your friends on Facebook
• Social Actions for Myspace - Discover and share actions with your friends on MySpace
• Volunteer Connect [Facebook] - FInd volunteer opportunities on Facebook

Firefox Extensions

• Take Action on Any Website - Ubiquity command
• CauseSense - Replace ads w/related actions
• Take Action Button - Click "Take Action" on any website, find related actions
• Social Actions Search - Adds a Social Actions search box
• Link Extend - Super charge your search experience, find actions too

Political Mashups

• BeyondtheBite - Find ways to take action next to Congressmens' soundbites
• GovTrack.us - Find ways to take action on the bills you care about
• District-By-District Organizing Tool - Find events from Social Actions in your Congressional District 

Maps & Visualizations

• Social Actions Interactive Map - Find actions all over the world via an interactive map
• Social Actions Map - Create a customized query and depict the actions on a map

Tools & Components

• Social Actions Tuner - A way to find the volunteer and donation opportunities you're interested in more quickly

Mobile Apps

• Social Actions Alerts - Get alerts of actions for the issues you care about on your mobile phone
• SquarePeg iPhone App - Search for, share, and subscribe to actions through your iPhone
• Social Actions on Mobile - Helps you to search, browse and share actions from your mobile phone

Websites & Web Mashups

• Democracia 2.0 - A web portal to share, vote and create actions to be taken by the community
• EarthFirst.com - A green blog featuring the latest environmental news, exclusive features, original cartoons and videos
• MTV Act - "where fist-pumping and lending a helping hand collide"
• Social Connect - Search for actions and share them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
• SocialActives - Also a web portal  to share, vote and create actions to be taken by the community
• Social Actions Search - Advanced Search for Social Actions
• ViewChange.org, a project of Link TV - Using the power of video to tell stories about real people and progress in global development

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Get involved!

• Do you have an idea for a web application using the Social Actions API? Please share it with us at Social Actions' Developers Google Group!
• You can also add your projects to this page - click the link in the sidebar to request Writer privileges, or contact team@socialactions.com for more information.
• And don't you think this page would be MUCH better as a searchable directory of these and other apps? Let us know if you'd like to build that together!

More information...

• Visit Social Actions' Dashboard for more information about the metrics we're tracking where click-throughs, conversion rates, and more analytics related to the use of these apps is concerned.