[humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions

Fri Apr 22 12:39:35 UTC 2016

Hi Lisa, 
I am glad to know that your employer purchased JAWS for you. 
Regarding your questions, I have a few ideas. 
At the end of your presentation or meeting, you collect the forms and bring them to work. You have to contact the people by email or phone. 
I like to use excel spreadsheets for this task. For every community meeting start a new one. Put the name of the person, their phone in the next cell, and email address in the next. This way you have a clear idea on who asked for what. Every worksheet will gather all your information in one place. 
Same could be used for your faith based communities. Keep the descriptions of the mission in a word document. The stuff you do at home, can you send to your work by email.  I would not send the client info by email, but find out if you could bring your laptop to work and transfer the information to the work desktop. 
Again I encourage you to polish up your braille skills. They can come in handy in labeling the materials you pick up at a resource fair or bring the ones from your organization. 
Let us know if these tips are helpful. 

Yasmin Reyazuddin 
Aging & Disability Services 
Montgomery County Government 
Department of Health & Human Services 
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Rockville MD 20850 
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240-777-1495 (fax) 
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Subject: [humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions

Hi All,

I'm pretty excited to share that my employer purchased JAWS. I'm a bit nervous that, for the most part, I've been left out of the loop. I've done my best to provide resources and support. I hope to tell you sometime next week that all is well with JAWS on the workplace desktop. 

I've learned a little bit more about some of my job responsibilities and, of course, that brings up additional questions. Here are my questions. I apologize if they're not clear. 

At this point I will not have the option to take a company laptop into the community and I'm not supposed to use my personal laptop for work purposes.
This poses challenges at a number of levels. One concern I have has to do with paperwork that I pass out to participants at the end of a meeting. The group is asked to fill out the form. I'm supposed to collect the completed forms; take them back to the office; look over the form to see if any participant has requested information or  phone contact. I'm also supposed to do something with tallying information I'm supposed to photocopy each form and put it into a particular hard-copy file.. I'm not too clear about that task. I don't know how to pull all of this together and do my job without a laptop. Ideas? 

I know that JD and others shared how they organize resources. I'm still a little lost. I've got a bag of print brochures; flyers and other papers that I've collected at a couple of resource fairs and at Earth Day. I understand that I can use the Pearl Camera to scan each item. I don't know how to organize the information from that point. I don't know how I'm supposed to retrieve a resource without the use of a laptop. Ideas? 

Last week I was tasked with finding faith-based organizations. I worked from home; used the internet and tried editing some of the lists I found.
Subsequently while at work, and without internet access, I used my cell phone to get phone numbers for some of the places; there's over 500 places of worship listed. At work I've called some of these places to  introduce faith-based leaders and their members to our organization and our approach to living with a mental health challenge; wellness education and other tools as defined by the participant, including meaning and purpose/spirituality.
Some of these organizations asked to have information emailed. I've got their email information and it's not well organized. For example, I have a list of places of faith that begins with the letter "A". There's probably 30 places. I've started to create headings; that's tedious and maybe not the most effective way to list these places. I've been inserting phone numbers and email addresses into a word document. There's got to be a more effective way to do all of this. What is it? 

I've been permitted to use my laptop and work from home for the past few weeks. Now I have saved work emails; the faith-based project and a few resources. I don't know how to finish the faith-based project if I can't transfer it from my laptop to the company's desktop. (We can't use thumb drives). 

Thanks so much to JD, Carli and so many of you for doing a little hand-holding and sharing tips-n-tricks. 

From,

Lisa Irving 

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