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Vote: Your Favorite Slacktivist Slacktivity

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Hunger, Micro-volunteering, volunteering, tagged , , , , , on October 19, 2010 |

Back in Week 38, Nils and I put up a challenge for submission of the laziest ideas for making an Impact: The Slacktivist Impact Challenge. In the  true spirit of Slackers (and because of a flu and a 24/7 online conference I was presenting at), we fell behind in choosing and posting the finalists. But, [...]

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Lovin’ Slacktivism, Slacktivists and Slacktivity

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Environment, Product Safety, volunteering, women's rights, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2010 |

This is turning out to be such a fun week. I’m lovin’ being a Slacktivist and thanks to a friend, I now have a new word to add to my vocabulary: Slacktivity! (Thanks, Joe. I think I’ll submit it to Merriam-Webster). This trying really hard to do as little as possible and have an Impact [...]

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Week 38: Fellow Slacktivists, Unite!

Posted in click-to-donate, Clothing, Corporate social responsibility, Ovarian Cancer, Product Safety, Search-to-donate, volunteering, What is 52 Weeks, tagged , on September 21, 2010 |

My Facebook friends already know that this past week ended grumpily for me. I was referred to as a “Slacktivist”, and while it was said tongue-in-cheek, it still ticked me off. Before I continued on in my dark mood, I figured I’d best check the definition of the term. Perhaps I was misjudging. Neither Merriam [...]

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Week 37: Corporate Social (ir)Responsibility

Posted in Corporate social responsibility, volunteering on September 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Nils started this week’s Impact effort with enthusiasm — in part because it was his idea and “his baby”, in part because it was something he knew could be an Impact-ful effort. With all that we try to do outside the workplace, Nils realized just how uninformed he was about what charitable efforts were going [...]

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Week 36: Sharing your talents, it’s that simple

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Friends, Personal Development, volunteering, tagged , , , on September 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

My ex-husband was (and likely still is) a very talented fellow. My oldest friend still reminds me that he could make milk Doritos come out of his nose. (Added Sept 11, 2010: Sorry, I’ve been corrected by my friend, it was Doritos, not milk) But, (fortunately) he’s just one of many talented people I know. [...]

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What d’ya mean, it’s not all about ME?

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Blood Donation, Children, Disaster Relief, Education, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »

After several glorious vacation weeks back in the States, having lots of fun with family and friends, I’ve been feeling … well … weird. I’ve chalked up my lack of motivation and moodiness (Nils will attest to the latter) in part to jet-lag, in part to the usual dolefulness that follows a great holiday. I’ve [...]

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Week 34: Spontaneous Impact Weekend

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, click-to-donate, Clothing, Homeless, Human Rights, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Dark clouds, spitting rain and an uncomfortable chill were our companions for morning coffee on Saturday. It was pretty dispiriting. Did we really have to go outside and get things done? By the time we finished our morning ablutions and discussions on the day’s plan, the clouds had cleared a bit — in the sky, [...]

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Week 34: Spontaneous Impact

Posted in volunteering on August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »

The most time-consuming part of 52 Weeks of Impact is not the weekly Impact Effort itself. Rather, it’s the planning, preparation and research. Still jet-lagging from our California to Austria flights (the nine-hour time difference is a real energy killer), Nils and I see this as the perfect time to do something that we’ve wanted [...]

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Week 29: Saving man’s best friend

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, volunteering, tagged , , on July 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been counting my blessings that no friends and family members have been dramatically impacted by the current recession. No one has gone untouched, everyone I know is worried, but no one I know is without roof nor food. This week’s Impact Effort showed me a different side of the recession, and I can no [...]

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Week 26: I exist

Posted in volunteering, tagged , , , , on July 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I mirrored S‘s actions, approached the guard station and traded in my Green Card i.d. for the prison pass that I hung around my neck. We silently moved to the bank of small locker boxes and stowed away everything except a pencil and a few sheets of paper. Led by a young prison guard, we [...]

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