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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

These conceptions are facetious, of course, but according to a current trend sweeping the nonprofit scene, all that’s necessary to support a cause you’re passionate about is clicking “like” on a Facebook page. Many charities or nonprofits only require activists to “like our Facebook page” or “retweet this” or “hashtag that.”

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. Office 365 for Nonprofits. Here’s what it all looked like to me. Social Media.

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

Sean has consistently had a special interest in education and nonprofit use of refurbished PCs to support digital inclusion. This interest may have been kindled when he was an ICT advisor to the government of Namibia before he came to Microsoft. Refurbished equipment is much less expensive than new.

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

Tech Soup

The Namib Desert in Namibia (has the highest sand dunes on earth). techsoup nonprofit Causes nonprofits' David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). The Antarctica Last Desert Challenge.