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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. Green Technology. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches.

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What Are Social Enterprises, Anyway?

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TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. She turned one of the big regional Goodwills into a thriving green organization. Image 1: Ashoka logo.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Department of Interior management plan protecting 11 million acres of critical habitat for caribou, migrating birds, and other wildlife in northwest Alaska in 2013. The suite includes Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics, Photoshop for image enhancement, InDesign for desktop publishing and page layout, plus many additional programs.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Department of Interior management plan protecting 11 million acres of critical habitat for caribou, migrating birds, and other wildlife in northwest Alaska in 2013. The suite includes Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics, Photoshop for image enhancement, InDesign for desktop publishing and page layout, plus many additional programs.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

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" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. According to the August 2014 Symantec Intelligence Report , there were 259 data breaches between September 2013 and August 2014. Image 1 : Brian Klug / CC BY-NC.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

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Another reason Nancy Jo got the lifetime achievement award (called the Jim Lynch Award, named after yours truly) was for her work to represent the refurbishment field on Responsible Recycling (R2) technical advisory committee in its work to revise the R2 Standards for 2013. ” Image: bloggernews.net.

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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

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To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. Since Earth Day 2013, the eCycle Best has recycled more than 34,000 gadgets. Images: iFixit. Happy Earth Month! As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. Let's dig in! iFixit and Fairphone. 11,000 were laptops.

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