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Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name

(Posted on  BoomTown  about 1 month ago)

So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college. And I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for t… (visit source article)

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