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

Peter Donahue pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com
Sun Nov 20 20:41:07 UTC 2011 

Good afternoon everyone,

    This seems to be a wide-spread problem in the NFB. New Web Sites and 
other Internet resources are announced and the resource launch fails to 
materialize. In other instances there are a few national Web sites with 
pages yet to be populated with content. If you go to them the only message 
you read is "Coming Soon." In one case the content for a page on one of our 
national Web sites has been "Coming Soon" for over two years. And this site 
is managed by paid staff hence I don't buy the volunteer argument. My advice 
to those who administer such sites either populate all of your site pages or 
take them down until you have content to place on them! Likewise be careful 
about announcing site launches until you know beyond the shadow of a doubt 
you can put the Web site or resource online and have all of its pages 
populated with site content.

    Another problem I've seen is affiliates who want a Web site put up pay 
someone to build it for them, and then communication breaks down. This 
actually happened to me with one of our affiliates. They asked me to build 
it two years ago. It wasn't until the end of June this year that their Web 
site was launched. Much work went in to building that Web site. In early 
September I was informed by this particular affiliate that they wished to 
take their Web site in another direction and they were working with a 
different developer. Had they communicated with me regularly concerning 
their sites content and direction I wouldn't have wasted my time building 
this Web site and chasing down some of their members for direction and 
assistance with content. If you go to this Web site you're prompted to enter 
a username and a password. All of my hard work is gone!

    A word to the wise. I'm willing to build Web sites for NFB affiliates 
but there must be on-going communication and you need to be perfectly clear 
about what you want on the site to be sure it addresses your needs. If other 
NFB Webmasters have been treated this way I can understand why affiliate Web 
sites don't launch on the promised day. I hope David can get the NABSLink 
Audio Site up ASAP! Otherwise why not just place audio and video content 
directly on the regular NABS Web Site. There was a recording of the 2009 
NABS Annual Meeting in Detroit there at one time but those who took over its 
administration wrecked much of the work of myself and others.

    While I'm not trying to flame anyone in particular I thought I would 
give some insite as to why there are issues with NFB Web Sites from the 
perspective of one who administers or administered some of them. All the 
best for a great Thanksgiving.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight


Chris, if you're going to complain, maybe help them fix the problem. These
are volunteers.
Also, you sent over ten messages to the list, you must have finished your
homework. When I was in that grade, I didn't have time to write so much due
to loads of work.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:20 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch Tonight

Dave, we've been waiting since like August! I understand David
has a bunch of stuff to take care of with his running of
AudioAccessFM, but something really must be going on here, to
have the Web page not work for four months, even after a change
of Web hosting providers and like three emails to the list from
the Webmaster himself saying that it's back up.

Chris

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----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:51:40 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] New Nabslinkaudio.org Site Will Launch
Tonight

Good things come to those who wait!

At 02:03 PM 11/13/2011, you wrote:
Hi David,

I just checked the site, and it STILL says "the page cannot be
displayed" when I select the "click here to download or listen to
past NABS presentations" link.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: David Dunphy <djdrocks4ever at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 03:42:28 -0400
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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