Comments on: reach out and touch someone http://willnorris.com/2007/08/reach-out-and-touch-someone there's more to life than this Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:06:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19719 By: Dan Fulbright http://willnorris.com/2007/08/reach-out-and-touch-someone#comment-16637 Dan Fulbright Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:52:20 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/08/reach-out-and-touch-someone#comment-16637 <p>Great story, Will. That reminds me of a time that I received a message on Twitter because I track the name of my home town (i.e, send "track Omaha" to Twitter, and you'll get all public tweets containing that word.). It mentioned the recent ice storm we had in our area. The author said that he stayed in a Red Cross shelter at a local church. I recognized the church as the one where my son attends pre-school 2 days a week. I checked the church's web site and found the IT guy's contact information. We have now corresponded a couple of times, and he was touched to read about someone positively effected by his employer, the church.</p> <p>All this technology tends to make our lives less personal. Sometimes it takes a little work to make sure we remain human.</p> <p>--df</p> Great story, Will. That reminds me of a time that I received a message on Twitter because I track the name of my home town (i.e, send “track Omaha” to Twitter, and you’ll get all public tweets containing that word.). It mentioned the recent ice storm we had in our area. The author said that he stayed in a Red Cross shelter at a local church. I recognized the church as the one where my son attends pre-school 2 days a week. I checked the church’s web site and found the IT guy’s contact information. We have now corresponded a couple of times, and he was touched to read about someone positively effected by his employer, the church.

All this technology tends to make our lives less personal. Sometimes it takes a little work to make sure we remain human.

—df

]]> By: jj http://willnorris.com/2007/08/reach-out-and-touch-someone#comment-13102 jj Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:44:10 +0000 http://willnorris.com/2007/08/reach-out-and-touch-someone#comment-13102 <p>I was wondering where I could get the OpenID plugin for the comment ?</p> I was wondering where I could get the OpenID plugin for the comment ?

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