As recently intimated, we debuted today the Salsa Market, an app store for the progressive movement.

Salsa Market will allow you to create your unique recipe for organizing by connecting the Salsa toolset with add-on applications from our extensive partner network and all kinds of developers.

Now, you'll be able to leverage this network and choose from dozens of ways to power up your Salsa account. You'll also find some unique Salsa packages developed by Salsa Labs that you may have never seen before.

You can think of it as getting expert consulting and personalized development for pennies on the dollar. As of today, every Salsa user has at his or her fingertips the custom integrations done by smart developers like MobileCommons, ActBlue, and Catalist, and other partners who have brought their innovative technologies to work with Salsa.

Check out a few of them:

Groundcrew - Allows you to communicate with your supporters over text, twitter, or email. Check it out.
MobileCommons - Mobile Commons makes it easy to text a million people, one person, or anything in between. You can message your entire mobile list, create groups to send text messages to specific people or answer individual SMS messages one at a time. Check it out.

change.org - Push your advocacy campaign out to change.org, and then recruit supporters from the online activists who take action through their site. Check it out.

ActBlue - Pull your donation information from your ActBlue donation pages into Salsa, including donations made on supporter-created pages at actblue.com Check it out.

Catalist -Integrate voter file and other demographic data for richer supporter data and targeting. Check it out.

  BrightText - Take a pre-written form letter, and to instantly rewrite for each supporter who takes action, so that the wording is changed but the core message stays the same. Check it out.

Cicero - Our integration that provides a whole new set of action targets to campaigns, such as city council members, etc. Check it out.

Litmus - Test your email in a wide variety of readers before you send it out, ensuring the best result for as many readers as possible. Check it out.

Flimp Media - Embed a video in a blast email, then track individual watchers. With Flimp Rich Media software, anyone can quickly create, distribute and track interactive digital collateral with video for direct marketing, communications and sales and get instant access to detailed viewer engagement, response and sharing data by email address. Check it out.

Soon, you'll be able install these Salsa "apps" with just a couple of clicks and add them to your invoice if they require payment.

But that's not all!

Several other tents will soon be setting up in this bustling souk, including:

• New Signature Click-to-Call
• Revolution Messaging
• SalsaWeb templates from Velocity Strategies
• New Signature Wordpress integration

Beyond that? Why, the sky's the limit! We'll be finding out right alongside our users what innovative new ways people uncover to connect Salsa data and tools to their work.

Developer?

(I hardly knew her!)

If you're a developer, a partner, or a client who might be interested in building a custom package to share in the Salsa Market (or finding out how to share, and possibly monetize, something you've already built) please contact us at marketplace@salsalabs.com. You can learn more about getting started on Salsascript by taking a peek at our developer documentation.