Social Actions

Over at Philanthropy 2173, Lucy wrote about a new website called Social Actions. The site is designed to “make it easy for you to make a difference.”

This is how they do it:
We help you find and share opportunities to change the world.

- First, we collect ways to get involved in the causes you care about from these 30+ action sources, including Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch.

- Then, we make it easy for you to find these opportunities by presenting them in a user-friendly search engine.

- We also encourage nonprofits, companies, and third-party developers to create online tools that help you share ways for others to take action on your website, blog, or mobile device.

The web is becoming a series of social networks connected by social networks. If you, like me, have a tough time keeping up with the many social networks you take part in, you will find things like this extremely handy. While you will still need to log on to the individual sites to update your profile (this I predict will change in the new year) you can at least see if there is anything you find interesting at a glance with less effort to look for it. As they say – you can make a difference, they will make it easy.