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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

Bandwidth was a problem then, too. We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. And even if they had, most likely Twitter’s over-capacity fail-whale would have been my first, frustrated experience.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. Crowdsourcing, the virtual gathering of thinkers from around the world, is a modern solution to a classic predicament: how do I get the resources I need? Sun Health. What is crowdsourcing?

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