[nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight

[David Dunphy]

Greetings Everyone!
After many anxious requests for it,
After many have been asking for it,
I am happy to announce that...
Tonight by 9 PM eastern, the new and upgraded nabslinkaudio.org web
site will be up!
What does this mean?
It means that all the nabs membership calls that I've been able to
record from the time the nabslinkaudio.org project launched to now
will be available. But that's not all!
Here are some of the new/improved features you can expect from the site.

This year's meeting from national convention will be available for
download. The final few parts of the elections got cut out sadly, but
the ones for president, vice president and secretary get revealed. If
anyone has any past national convention meetings they are willing to
share, put them on sendspace or dropbox and email the link/links to
djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
so they too can be added.


*Closer tighter integration with nabslink.org, meaning you'll beable
to use the same navigation bar on the nabslink site over on the
nabslink audio site too. This will make it easier for you to go from
our audio pages to the student slate section if you want, etc. Steps
will be taken to try to combine or integrate these sites a little more
so they can perhaps become one resource for students
A friendly greeting awaits your ears when you launch the new
nabslinkaudio site, but it only plays one time and one time only
unless you delete all your internet cookies everyday. This will not
interfere with the use of your screen reader when the site is launched
for the first time.
I'd like to put some more informational audio up on the site. Like
talk to people who hold various jobs who are part of the NFB in an
effort to find out about the jobs, what their college experience was
like while moving towards the goal of obtaining said job, what
accessibility challenges came up and how they dealt with them, etc.
I'm hoping I can integrate these things into the nabslinkaudio.org
page as an educational resource for blind students.

The ability to receive text notifications by cell phone when a new
conference call is in the archives plus when one is about to air live
is now fully integrated into the nabslink audio podcast page. Anyone
wishing to use this feature, including those who previously took
advantage of it on the old system will have to go through our
automated registration and validation process. This will ensure you
and the nabs membership committee that only the phone owner is using
this feature and that phone numbers aren't being distributed
everywhere.

For anyone who fills out the contact form to leave me feedback I'll
see it and be able to respond faster now since the form also sends me
a text message..

The web address
http://www.nabslinkaudio.org
won't change. the site will be up by 9 PM eastern. As soon as it goes
up, a tweet and an email will be sent out to this list, so feel free
to spread the word once that happens and to leave your
comments/feedback.
If you need to get in touch, email
djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
>From David