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Written by Patrick Kelley on 12 Mar 2010 | No Comments | Homelessness
Happy Birthday, Mark!

Here’s another plug for one of my heroes.  I know I’ve written about Mark Horvath and his project, invisiblepeople.tv, previously on the blog, but can’t seem to find any of those links now.  If you don’t know Mark, you should get to know him, because he is doing incredible, heart-wrenching work with social media and raising awareness around homelessness.

I met Mark when he came to Seattle last year for a social media conference.  He’s been in the news a lot lately (google him,…

Written by Patrick Kelley on 25 Feb 2010 | No Comments | Homelessness

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My logic tends towards the illogical, as many of you know, so try to stick with me here:

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