Really Simple Social Actions (RSSA)

The green icon with a slanted exclamation mark represents RSSA or Really Simple Social Actions. The icon was developed by Kyle Shannon. Social Actions (the web site) is grateful to Tom Munnecke of the Uplift Academy and Kyle Shannon for their vision of a future that includes syndicated social actions.

From RSSA.org (a project of The Uplift Academy and Kyle Shannon)

RSSA is a model for connecting people, ideas, and activities at a large scale. It is based on the model of RSS that allows sites to create web feeds of their content that can be then collected by aggregators into a common feed. RSSA is an enabling technology to allow diverse sources on the web, such as blogs, email signatures, videos, web sites, podcasts, wikis, television and radio broadcasts, etc. to attract attention to a common Activity Space. As people and agents interact, their Activity Stream is recorded so that others may see what is being done.

RSSA was conceived by Kyle Shannon (President/CCO, SplashLife), named by Andrew Rajeis and presented to a group of technology professionals on October 14, 2006. Since that presentation, Mr. Shannon has driven the transfer of RSSA to the open source community. Some of the initial supporters of the RSSA initiative are the Uplift Academy, SplashLife and Empower Thyself.

Learn more about Really Simple Social Actions

Below is Tom Munnecke's presentation (PDF) on the uses of RSSA at the June 2, 2007 San Diego BarCamp:

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For more information:

• RSSA.org
• Microformats.org
• Ishbadiddle's post Micro-formats and Micro-Philanthropy
• Why we need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds