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Mindy Baxter of Dallas CASA. This month we are hosting the Nonprofit Blog Carnival and want to know how nonprofits should share progress or communicate accomplishments. Mindy Baxter is a former newspaper reporter, but is now using her storytelling skills at Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). That’s news.
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But I’m gripped by a few thoughts on the difference today’s technology would have made if it had existed on that day in Dallas. Today, there would no doubt be cameras on the Dallas buildings, and in buildings such as the school book depository. The first involves smartphones. Would we know more, or less?
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