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Hi all, I hope you’re enjoying your Labor Day weekend! I myself have been laboring quite hard. I took a break to rest and started sifting through my email account. (It’s scary in there!) Buried under the heaps of emails, I found a request to join the DonorsChoose.org Bloggers Challenge drive, which starts on October 1st.

Support Local Biz: August 21, 2008 August 21st, 2008 The 90210 reruns on SOAPnet have just cycled back to the beginning — and you can read S1 recaps at The HeldenFiles. You can also get yourself a big bag of Hoffernalia while browsing the Hoff's site, which I can't believe I'd never visited before (thanks to Alli for the tip).

Congrats to the Social Actions team on the launch of their new widget, which recommends ways to take action on behalf of causes related to the content of any web page. Tailor-made for blogs (and I’m going to experiment with it myself), the widget is powered by the new Social Actions open API - so

Free and Easy Charity Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser Here's the deal: Big Think is running a charitable donation program for everybody's favorite educational charity, DonorsChoose, and they've gotten Pfizer to agree to donate $1 for each of the first 10,000 visitors to vote for a video on Big Think's site.

Plug-ins and widgets get released every day on the social web, but I think Friday’s release of the new Social Actions DonorsChoose plug-in for WordPress is an important milestone in peer-to-peer online social activism.

The industrious team over at Social Actions - that would be founder Peter Deitz and new arrival Joe Solomon - has created a wiki to collect ideas around what applications, mash-ups, and tools to build using the Social Actions API, which aggregates giving and volunteering opportunities from 19 different online activism platforms, including Kiva, DonorsChoose, ChangingthePresent, and Change.org.

O.K. folks, short and sweet. My interactive whiteboard is likely not to happen. It needs nearly $2,000 in funding in the next three days or the $850 already donated will be redistributed as directed by the donors when they donated. Please, please, please help us out! Thank you.

Okay folks, nine days left on my class's Donors Choose Grant to get an interactive whiteboard! I want to thank these two donors who gave $111 towards our goal, which means we have raised $722 out of $2,833. Nicole from Loganville, GA gave on July 3, 2008 who said, "I gave to this project because.

There are only 10 days left on my class's Donors Choose grant application for an Interactive Whiteboard. Right now only $611 out of $2,833 has been funded (by two individual donors, both women, both from Massachusetts. Thank you so much Kirsten and Laura! Regular readers of this blog know the many exciting ideas my class and I have for using an interactive white board.

When I was writing the proposal for Spot Us I began to study Kiva.org, SellaBand and DonorsChoose. Little did I know how many micro-philanthropy sites there were. SocialActions has made it their job to keep tabs on all the sites that allow somebody to take a positive social action on the web.