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<p class="MsoNormal">We ran the list of email addresses provided by Conchita from the quiz against the current list of subscribed email addresses receiving the NFB Imagineering Our Future newsletter. The results are better than I anticipated:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">21% - 68 out of 319 were duplicates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This suggests that we did reach a number of people outside of the typically reached circle of the Federation communication. Now, I am certain that the impact number is not 79% as many people might give an email
address for this quiz that is different from the one they would use for communications day to day. Therefore, we may have members who gave an alternate email address that is not the one we use for the e-newsletter. Even with that in mind, the number is certainly
better than what my guess would have been.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark A. Riccobono, M.S.ed</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Executive Director, Jernigan Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><ns0:Street><ns0:address>200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place</ns0:address></ns0:Street></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><ns0:place><ns0:City>Baltimore</ns0:City>,
<ns0:State>Maryland</ns0:State> <ns0:PostalCode>21230</ns0:PostalCode></ns0:place></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Phone: (410) 659-9314 ext. 2357</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fax: (410) 659-5129</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Email:
<a href="mailto:mriccobono@nfb.org" title="blocked::mailto:mriccobono@nfb.org"><span style="color:blue">mriccobono@nfb.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Twitter: @Riccobono</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://www.nfb.org/" title="blocked::http://www.nfb.org/"><span style="color:purple">www.nfb.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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