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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

Though it should have been rush hour, there was no traffic, no helicopters reporting on stalled cars or construction. I still hadn’t been able to talk to my husband, but my mother-in-law had gotten word to him that we were headed East on I-10, and he was able to track my progress via our online, real-time credit card statement.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. This one stopped them in their tracks: “My dad is raping me. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. They also had to think about security and privacy in new ways. It is ongoing.”.