[Nfbf-l] NFB-NewslineR Meeting

[Sherri]

Dan, I appreciate you sending out this e-mail to let the lists know about our most productive and exciting meeting with Joyce Hildreth. I have worked with Joyce for years and we have always had a very cooperative and friendly relationship, which carried over into our Newsline ®meeting today. I am very glad to have had the opportunity to assist Scott White and Renee West in adding to their demonstrations of Newsline ®and all its new innovative features.

While Dan was rushing to get his plane home, I was able to have lunch with Renee and Scott where we discussed many ideas that will help grow NFBF Newsline ® and continue to keep Florida #1. Please stay tuned for more details.

I also want to give my thanks to my invaluable Newsline ®committee for their hard work and for all those volunteers and marketers who spread the word of Newsline® throughout Florida. I also thank Sabrina Deaton, our past Newsline ® coordinator for helping me in this transition and for her continued involvement. 

Finally, last but certainly not least, I thank Joyce Hildreth and The Florida Division of Blind Services for their continued funding of Newsline ®and for Joyce's recognition that Newsline ® is an extremely valuable source of information for the blind and print-disabled of Florida. 

I am honored to be Florida's Newsline ®coordinator. As Dan said, if you have any questions or want to become more involved with Newsline®, please contact me. My contact information is below this e-mail. Also, please see Dan's message.

Sherri Brun, Secretary and Newsline® Coordinator
National Federation of the Blind of Florida
E-mail:  flmom2006 at gmail.com
Phone:  407-898-6024
Toll-Free (Newsline®):  866-603-8578
http://www.nfbflorida.org/
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Hicks 
  To: NFB of Florida Listserv ; NFBF-Leaders at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:35 PM
  Subject: NFB-NewslineR Meeting


  Fellow Federation members, 

   

  This morning I was fortunate enough to take part in a meeting at the headquarters of the Florida Division of Blind Services in Tallahassee. The subject of the meeting -- NFB-Newsline®.  Also present were Scott White, NFB-Newsline® Director, Renee West, Director of NFB-Newsline® Marketing - both from Baltimore; NFBF Newsline® Coordinator Sherri Brun, from Florida, DBS Director Joyce Hildreth, and DBS Assistant Director Stephanie Wilson. 

   

  I know that many of you are enthusiastic Newsline supporters, and you will be pleased to know that Joyce, Stephanie, and the Division of Blind Services leadership and staff are also very much behind the program. Funding for NFB-Newsline® is assured, at least for the near future. This is assuring to know, in this time of budget shortfalls and program cutbacks. 

   

  Scott and Renee demonstrated many feature of Newsline, including  Newsline in Your Pocket, a function which allows you to download entire newspapers to read on your Victor Reader Stream or other compatible device. 

   

  You will be happy to know that some new features and functions are in the testing stage and will be available to all of us soon. Go to 

   

  http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Newspapers_by_Phone.asp

   

  or call Sherri Brun at 1-866-603-8578.or more information.  

   

  We are working on updated Florida's Newsline pages. In a few days check www.nfbflorida.org/newsline to see what is new. 

   

  Thank you all for supporting NFB-Newsline®!

  Dan Hicks, President

  NFBF 

   

   

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