From dandrews at visi.com Fri Jun 11 23:39:25 2010 From: dandrews at visi.com (David Andrews) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:39:25 -0500 Subject: [Blindvet-talk] =?iso-8859-1?q?2010_NFB_National_Convention_Agend?= =?iso-8859-1?q?a_Available_on_NFB-NEWSLINE=AE?= Message-ID: 2010 NFB National Convention Agenda Available on NFB-NEWSLINE? Perk your ears convention-goers, as we've got some great news for you! We are pleased to announce that once again the entire agenda of the National Federation of the Blind?s national convention will be available on NFB-NEWSLINE?, helping you to make the most of this grand gathering. With the availability of the agenda, you can quickly and easily determine what options are available at a particular time and find when and where a desired meeting will occur. We believe that this will make it easy to plan your convention schedule?made even easier with the new access methods available through NFB-NEWSLINE? Online. You can access the agenda in numerous ways?by download to your digital talking-book player with NFB-NEWSLINE? In Your Pocket, by reading it on Web News on Demand, and, of course, by picking up any touch-tone telephone. With NFB-NEWSLINE? In Your Pocket, you can have the full agenda on one small device, providing increased portability and effortless access. You can easily scan through each day to learn what meetings and events are of interest and determine your schedule for the day. In order to download the agenda to your digital talking-book player, you'll need to add the agenda to your favorites. This can be done online via our favorites management tool under the link for ?Manage Your In Your Pocket Favorite Publications.? Naturally, you'll need to download the NFB-NEWSLINE? In Your Pocket software, available at www.nfbnewslineonline.org, onto your computer before you can place this content on your device. After you've logged in, select the link for NFB-NEWSLINE? In Your Pocket, which takes you to an informational page with software download links. Web News on Demand allows you to easily search for a particular meeting or event when viewing the full agenda on one screen, or you can view each day individually. You can also have the contents of the full agenda or a particular day or event e-mailed to yourself, and you are now able to download a zip file of the agenda to your portable note-taking device (such as the BrailleNote). To access Web News on Demand and the special features it offers, visit www.nfbnewslineonline.org and select ?Web News on Demand? after logging in. The easiest way to find the agenda is to select the link ?Publications Organized Alphabetically? and search for the title ?NFB 2010 Convention Agenda.? To access the agenda on the phone you'll want to enter the main menu (option number five) and select ?National Meetings of Interest to the Print-Disabled? (option number four) from the ?Newspapers in a Different State? menu. With the recent availability of our on-demand article-request feature, you can now request that details of a certain meeting or event be sent to your e-mail account; you can in this way set up your own agenda tailored to your interests and obligations. To use this feature, when listening to an article press #9 (pound nine) and the desired article will be sent to your e-mail inbox automatically, assuming your e-mail address is provided in your account. If you?d like to experience the flexibility and ease of use that is offered by NFB-NEWSLINE? Online, please visit www.nfbnewslineonline.org. If you've forgotten your codes, please call us toll free at (866) 504-7300. If you aren't signed up for NFB-NEWSLINE?, visit www.nfbnewsline.org to download an application or fill in the online application. David Andrews: dandrews at visi.com Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dandrews920