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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tomorrow is our big day—the day on which the Maryland delegation at Washington Seminar will meet with our representatives in Congress to urge them to support our legislative priorities for this session. As I stressed in last week’s message, our social media engagement this week is just as essential to our success as the personal meetings we will have with our legislators. Therefore, I need to hear from you. If you are meeting with your representative tomorrow, please tweet about your experience. Be sure to mention @NFBMD and use the hashtag #NFBWS15 so we can retweet your updates using the NFB of Maryland’s Twitter account. If you don’t have Twitter, please send me a brief note on how your meeting(s) went at <a href="mailto:dotkid.nusbaum@gmail.com">dotkid.nusbaum@gmail.com</a>. I will condense as many of these into tweets as I can.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As always, thank you for your continued support of our efforts to increase our presence on social media during Washington Seminar and throughout the year. A special thank you is also in order to Melissa Riccobono for covering the Great Gathering-In and other Washington Seminar events for us on Twitter. Let’s keep the Federation at the forefront of our legislators’ minds and timelines in the coming days!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris Nusbaum, Social Media Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>National Federation of the Blind of Maryland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris Nusbaum, Vice President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maryland Association of Blind Students<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A Division of the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: (443) 547-2409<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: <a href="mailto:dotkid.nusbaum@gmail.com">dotkid.nusbaum@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Twitter: @Chrisn98 and @NFBMD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations for blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>