Live from the Netsquared conference in San Jose, CA: 21 non-profit finalists are competing to win $50,000 in prize money for the most innovative use of social media for social good.

Here’s an interesting one:

Peter Dietz from SocialActions.com, which allows uers to search for social action campaigns across 29+ websites

My take: Great idea, but the engine has to be comprehensive to have utility. If I can’t be sure that the engine is returning every action out there (within reason), then this could be one utility I use, but not the only one. (The search engine isn’t there yet.)