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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Nfbnet-members-list [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces@nfbnet.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Leslie Newman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 20, 2014 5:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nfbnet-members-list] Recruiting for the NFB Communications Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Recruiting for the NFB Communications Committee<br>
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The NFB Communications committee is one of the two original committees formed at the conception of the National Federation of the Blind (membership was the other). Our mission is to consider questions dealing with the Braille Monitor, state newsletters, and
the total range of communications and information throughout our movement. <br>
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We need a few new good members who have an interest in communications, a passion for the mission of the NFB, and can commit to giving of their talent and time to our part of changing what it means to be blind.
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What we have accomplished over the past three years:<br>
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#1 Sought out all NFB affiliate and divisional publications. Communicate with editors, find out their needs, encourage them to join the NFB-Editors listserv, share everyone?s publications, etc.<br>
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#2 Surveyed all NFB affiliate and divisional websites. Found eleven affiliates were not on the WWW, communicated with them about their needs. Put together a proposal to offer a free domain, and initial webmaster service, and training for a webmaster of their
choice. All fifty-two affiliates are now up. (Four affiliates got themselves up, we assisted seven. We are still the webmaster of five of them)<br>
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#3 Made a survey of all affiliates total communications efforts. Cataloged, categorized and grouped the types of method and tools being used, and shared them with all affiliates, divisions, and chapters.
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#4 Created a Facebook Trainer Team to reach out and encourage and assist affiliates, divisions, and chapters to utilize Facebook to promote themselves and NFB.<br>
#5 Assisted the Affiliate Action Team to get all affiliate and division websites to post the notice for our new national fund raiser, the vehicle donation program. (Started with twenty-one affiliates had it up, now we have forty-seven, with a commitment to
do so from the remainder)<br>
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#6 At convention we host a workshop. We base the theme on what appears to be the current needs of those NFB communication players who are looking for solutions and/or a forum to share ideas.<br>
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If you are interested, please contact me personally. My preferred avenue for our first communication would be by phone at 402-660-1743. Though, email is acceptable, at
<a href="mailto:newmanrl@cox.net">newmanrl@cox.net</a><br>
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Note: Don?t join, if you cannot commit some creative time and effort to our job. Not to scare anyone away, I?m just serious about this committee being worthy of its mission.<br>
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Robert Leslie Newman<br>
Personal Website-<br>
<a href="http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/">http://www.thoughtprovoker.info</a><br>
NFB Writers' Division, President<br>
Division Website-<br>
<a href="http://writers.nfb.org/">http://writers.nfb.org<br>
</a>Chair, NFB Communications Committee<br>
Nebraska Senior Division, vice President<br>
Omaha Chapter First vice President<br>
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