{"id":391,"date":"2009-02-23T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-04-21T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:11:43","slug":"harnessing-firefox-add-ons-web-apps-to-make-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/harnessing-firefox-add-ons-web-apps-to-make-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing Firefox Add-ons &amp; Web Apps to Make Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/\">Social Actions<\/a> are kicking off a unique contest today:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/changetheweb\">Change the Web Challenge<\/a>.  They&#8217;re calling for new Web apps that can help people make a difference while browsing the Web &#8211; allowing them to find and share actions on websites, blogs and social networks. Participants not only have a shot at glory, but $10,000 in prizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/files\/2009\/02\/internetjpg1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-403\" title=\"internetjpg1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/files\/2009\/02\/internetjpg1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"internetjpg1\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To give you a better sense, here are some Web apps that Social Actions already powers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/labs\/wordpress-related-actions\">&#8216;Related Ways to Take Action&#8217; WordPress Plugin<\/a>: A plugin you can add to any WordPress.org blog that identifies the keywords of each blog posts and then displays related ways to take action.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/labs\/twitter-action-pack\">Twitter Action Pack<\/a>: A directory of 30+ Twitter accounts that automatically post actions on the issues you care about.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/my.socialactions.com\/profiles\/blogs\/how-to-take-action-on-any-web\">Firefox Ubiquity Command<\/a>: A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pique your interest? Social Actions has pulled together some great resources to help with submitting and creating add-ons and Web apps for the contest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change the Web Challenge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/changetheweb\">Slideshow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Social Actions&#8217; Developers <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/social-actions-dev\">Google Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/developers\">Developer Resources<\/a> page<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/socialactions.uservoice.com\/\">idea hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joe Solomon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/JoeSolomon\/firefox-extensions-for-social-change-presentation\">presentation on Firefox Extensions for Social Change<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An online chat: <a href=\"http:\/\/my.socialactions.com\/events\/how-can-mozilla-empower\">How Can Mozilla Empower Movements and Nonprofits<\/a> with Zak Greant and Suneel Gupta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Submissions are due April 3, 2009 and winners will be announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nten.org\/ntc\">NTEN&#8217;s Nonprofit Technology Conference<\/a> on April 28th!\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking forward to seeing what comes in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Social Actions are kicking off a unique contest today: Change the Web Challenge. 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