Action Packs
Live streams of calls to action, organized by theme
What can you do here?
- Find out what Action Packs are all about
- Browse the directory of active Action Packs
- Create an Action Pack
- Add an Action Pack to your blog or website
- See the detailed log of active and proposed Action Packs
- Read notes and links relevant to the Action Packs program
Shortened URL for navigation page: http://bit.ly/ActionPacksNavigation
Instructions for creating Action Packs
Step #1: Choose a theme
Choose a theme for the new Action Pack. It can be anything you'd like! A cause or issue topic, geographical region, population subset, type of action, anything at all. Review the list of active and proposed Action Packs to see if your Action Pack already exists. If it's on the list but isn't active yet, contact christine@socialactions.com for an update on the status. If it isn't on the list, move onto Step #2.
Creating and maintaining a new action pack on Twitter
Once you have decided on a new action pack to setup and maintain on Twitter, you'll want to follow these simple instructions.
Step 1: Setting up the account on Twitter
- Go to Twitter.com
- Sign-up for a new account
- Name the account and choose a handle (no more than 15 characters). Example name and handle combinations are Poverty Actions (@povertyactions) and Human Rights Actions (@act4humanrights)
- Enter an email address for the account. If you don't have a personal or organizational email address setup for the account, please email actionpacks@socialactions.com. We will gladly setup an email alias for the new action pack.
- Upload an avatar for the new account. We encourage you to find and use Creative Commons images that match the issue area, region, or theme for the new action pack. You can find Creative Commons images using the advanced search option on Flickr. If you cannot find an image or don't have the time, you can also use the Social Actions logo as the avatar.
- Enter a 'bio' for the new account. The bio should read something like, "Take action on <issue area, region, theme> related actions." If your avatar uses a image from another source, please credit the image source in the 'bio.'
Step 2: Feeding the new Twitter account with actions
- Go to Twitterfeed.com
- Sign-in or register for an account
- Once you have logged in, click on "Create new feed"
- Select "Authenticate with username and password"
- Enter the username and password for the new Twitter account
- In a new window or tab, go to search.socialactions.com
- Use the advanced search to submit a query that matches your issue area, region, or theme
- On the search results page, click on the RSS feed icon in the URL bar of your browser
- Copy the URL for the RSS feed
- Back on Twitterfeed.com, enter the URL for the RSS feed obtained on search.socialactions.com
- Enter a name for the feed
- Click on advanced options
- For update frequency, select 'Every 30 minutes' and up to '5' new updates at a time
- For prefix, enter 'Take action:'
- For source, enter 'socialactions'
- Select 'Create feed'
You're done!
Creating and maintaining a new action pack on Facebook
Coming soon, we'll provide instructions on creating a Facebook fan page for a new action pack.
Listing a new action pack on Social Actions
Once you have created a new action pack, we'll want to link to it from Social Actions.
- Email actionpacks@socialactions.com with the link(s) to the new action pack.
- We'll setup a page the new action pack to display here.
Thank you for helping to build out Social Actions' Action Packs program.
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