[il-talk] An IL-Talk question

[Jenny Keller]

thanks, it must not have been out when I checked it last week.

Jenny
On Apr 22, 2012, at 8:58 PM, David Meyer wrote:

> The current issue of the Braille Examiner is on NewsLine.  Each Braille
> Examiner is it's own section under the NFB of Illinois channel of the
> Blindness Information Channel, (option 2 from the main menu.)  Hope this
> helps. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jenny Keller
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:23 PM
> To: GlennMooreIII at yahoo.com; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] An IL-Talk question
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't received the braille examiner yet.  Is it an email based magazine?
> If so, could you sign me up.  If you can get it on newsline however, please
> let me know as I can read it there too.
> 
> I don't prefer braille as I taught myself in 1999 and it's slow going no
> matter how hard I practice.  
> 
> If it an email magazine, please sign me up.
> 
> Jenny
> On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:23 PM, GlennMooreIII at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi Carl, I apologize for not responding soonerlori be honest, I lost your
> email in the shuffle, I too sometimes have a little trouble with lots of
> emails.
>> 
>> So you had asked about an email you received from me that talked about the
> Braille Examiner, which is the NFB of Illinois' newsletter.
>> You actually didn't get that email from me to you, I posted it onto
> Il-Talk, which is NFB of IL's listserve. It is meant for any blind, visually
> impaired, or, I suppose, sighted people who want to talk about blindness
> issues in a group or open forum.
>> We are, I think, all blind members and it is statewide.
>> A person can send an email (or response to an email by clicking reply) to
> il-talk and that message will be delivered to everyone who subscribes to
> il-talk.
>> It's a practical, inexpensive, and accessible way for a large and spread
> out group of blind people to communicate about important issues for the
> blind.
>> I know sometimes it seems like a lot of emails, but you can have it 
>> all reduced to about one email a day if you opt to get the emails as a
> digest) The benefit of having everyone get these messages is everyone is in
> the loop when there is a topic that could impact our lives, like
> anticipating how we will conduct our lives or business with a new
> technology, travel freely with a new change in infrastructure, or planning
> our futures, knowing what services or protection of our rights we can expect
> etc. And if a person has a question they can't find a solution for, this is
> maybe the largest group of blindness experts (illinoi's blind citizenry)
> available, including you, to help with a solution. And by the way,  you said
> you are 10/60 in one eye and have NLP in the other, so you have a unique
> experience with blindness that even a teacher of the visually impaired or a
> public servant working in Blind Services may not fully understand. I think
> your input and your voice on how things should be done matters too, and this
> group benefits from your being a part of it.
>> I hope that answer wasn't too long, Carl. And I hope you get a lot of use
> out of our list-serve, and get to know the other people who use it.
>> 
>> Feel free to email me or call if you want to know more about il-talk 
>> or the National Federation of the Blind
>> 
>> -Glenn III
>> NFBI State Treasurer
>> Gmoore3rd at gmail.com
>> (from iPhone: 1 (847) 899-9801)
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:49, carl dalka wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Glenn
>> My name is Carl Dalka - I live in Skokie.
>> I'm new to this group and I picked you because you were the last of many
> folks who send this notice.
>> Does this happen all the time. I got over two dozen email.
>> I'm blinded on one eye and 10/60 on the other. 
>> .
>> Are we all in the Chicago area.
>> Are we all near blind.
>> Do we have a daily BLOG?
>> .
>> I had hoped to do some phone chats
>> but my email today has 103 hits.
>> 
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