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

[Amy Sabo]

Dear david,

Thanks for letting me know of this.. unfortunately, I'm not home
this weekend I'm at the nfb of Colorado state convention and, I
won't be able to listen to all of this until next week because
when I get home on Sunday afternoon I'm going to st. mattress!
Lol!

Anyway, this all sounds wonderful indeed. I plan to forward this
onto the student division lists for both Michigan and Colorado
too! I wish that I would've known of this earlier since I was
just at the cabs seminar for a little while to make this
announcement... oh well!

This all sounds wonderful and, I will definitely will catch it
out on my own and, let you know of my comments and all as usual
my dear!

Thanks again for this announcement and, I will talk to you this
week!



Hugs,
>From amy

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Dunphy
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 1:42 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight

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

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