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7 Take Action
Action Overview
If you've defined your Message 
and your Community 
, it is time to start to grow support. You do that by performing or having your
Pebblings 
perform Actions 
.
If you log onto your Pebble and click the Actions you will notice three options:
My Actions 
These are Actions you that have been assigned to you or have assigned to yourself.
Manage Actions 
This is where you can mange Actions you've already created.
New Action 
This is where you create new Actions for you or your Pebblings to take.
About Action Types
When you create your first Action you will see that there are three Action Types. We will explain one example of each Action Type in this Organizing 101 document, but we feel these types allow you to create an unlimited number of different kinds of Actions.
Open Actions
Open Actions are Actions anyone can perform or participate in, but you control the details of that Action. For example: You might be hosting an event where you choose the date, time, and location, but anyone can RSVP that they are coming. This type of Action can also be used as a way to allow people to volunteer for specific individual tasks, such as “Put up a Yard Sign,” for example.
List Actions
List Actions are Actions that require access to your Big List for you or other people to edit. For example: “A phonebank” or “A canvass”
Pebbling Created Actions
These are Actions you are allowing Pebblings to schedule and run themselves (thus they determine the date, location, and description and whether to publish it on your website). That said, you may want specific information reported back to you. A good example of this type of Action would be asking people to “Host a House Party.” You would post up the Action “Host a House Party” on your website. Anyone who performed that Action would RSVP, fill out the information you requested, and then potentially post their event on your website. After performing the House Party Action, you have them enter the results on their “My Actions” page, for example entering the “attendees”.
- Be giving Pebblings or other people access to various parts of your Pebble to successfully complete these Actions. This could mean giving them access to a Sublist or your Big List so they can report results, or it could mean simply letting them sign up to receive a bumper sticker, for example.
- Need to “attach” different items to the Actions so they can be successfully be created. For example, if you want to create a List-based Action (a phonebank, for example) you will need to create a Sublist and a View of that Sublist for the Pebblings to call and report on. You might also want to attach an Article to use as a Script for the phone bankers to use.
- Allow the public to see or RSVP to an Action if you choose to publish on your web page.
About Action Creation Screens
Remember, when you create or manage an Action and choose an Action type, the subsequent Action Creation Screens will change
depending on what type of Action you chose. On the screens, you will see the 
icon, which will remind you about the function and result of each option, but we
present them below because seeing them in a list might be helpful in understanding what each option does
and how it works with the others.
Screen
Option
Action Type
Note
Action Essentials
Name
All
What you want to call your Action. If you publish the Action on your website, this information will appear.
Action Essentials
Date
List-Based, Open
Enter the date and time of your Action. If you publish your Action to your website, this information will appear.
If a Pebbling-Created Action, leave this field blank to allow the Pebbling to choose the date.
Action Essentials
Location
List Based, Open
Your location is where this Action will take place. If you publish this Action to your website, this information will appear.
If a Pebbling-Created Action, the Pebbling will supply this information.
Action Essentials
Description
All
Enter a brief description of your Action. If you publish this Action to your website, this information will appear.
The Work
Select Sublist
List-Based Action Only
If you create a List-based Action, you need to choose which Sublist 
the Pebblings performing the Action will have access to. The choices that appear here are
pulled from your workbench 
. To make the Sublist you want selectable, you must first add it to your
workbench. Go to “Sublists” and click the workbench icon next to the Sublist you want to
select to add it.