Emergency Response through Social Media

Last week I wrote a post about how Twitter helped save an injured triathlete who had taken a wrong turn, and crashed her bike during a race. Well it turns out that the demand for this kind of monitoring is pretty high. Apparently, “74% of Social Media Users Expect Cries for Help to be Answered

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My Summer at SAS: Week 8

I first wrote this post for the SAS blog Conversations and Connections. SAS has been awesome enough to let me repost it here. Week of August 2, 2010   (Monday, 8/2) Day 35: It’s August. The last month of my internship. Don’t be too sad. We still have a couple weeks together. (Tuesday, 8/3) Day

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What Does a Social Media Intern Do?

This is my first video post. I’m new to this outlet, so I had an intern in Video Communications–Nick Makansi–help me. He filmed it, and then let me help with editing before he took care of all the finalizations. If you’ve been wondering what I’m doing at my internship, or if you just want to

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