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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

Author: Jennifer Darrouzet. International phone lines were jammed & I couldn’t reach my husband where he was working in France, to let him know I’d flown to LA, and I’d made it. We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. Bandwidth was a problem then, too.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

According to Daren Brabham, crowdsourcing consultant and author of Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities , crowdsourcing is the organization of online communities to utilize their combined resources. Crowdsourcing draws together volunteers, funding and brainpower from international organizations and individuals.

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