[Nfbmt] Montana Newsline Report

[Bruce&Joy Breslauer]

FYI.  Joy

NFB-NEWSLINE® Update for NFB of Montana 2015 State Convention

NFB-NEWSLINE® is celebrating its twentieth year in 2015.
Announcing our new National Channel created on NFB-NEWSLINE®! The new National 
Channel can be found under Option 1 on the Main Menu using the telephone 
access method. The first offering on this new NFB-NEWSLINE® National Channel 
is our new ebook, Building the Lives We Want, The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary 
History of the National Federation of the Blind, edited by Deborah Kent Stein. 
To find this book on NFB-NEWSLINE® using the telephone access method, press 1 
on the Main Menu for our new National Channel, press 1 for the NFB National 
Channel, and  press 1 for "Building the Lives We Want, The Seventy-Fifth 
Anniversary History of the National Federation of the Blind." The ebook can 
also be read from the NFB-NEWSLINE® mobile app by looking under your 
Favorites, or on our website at www.nfbnewslineonline.org by searching under 
"Publications Organized Alphabetically." The new NFB-NEWSLINE® National 
Channel also includes the Braille Monitor and Future Reflections. More content 
will be added to this channel in the future. If you have suggestions for other 
material you would like to see included in the NFB-NEWSLINE® National Channel, 
please contact Scott White at SWhite at nfb.org or call (866) 504-7300.
Nationwide subscribers: 110,000+
Over four hundred publications, including:
Ten national newspapers
Sixteen breaking news sources
Fourteen international newspapers
Fifty magazines
Over three hundred state newspapers, PLUS Emergency weather alerts Job 
listings TV listings Retail ads from Target Corporation (more to come!)


Six state news sources are carried in Montana:
Billings Gazette
Great Falls Tribune
Helena Independent Record
Missoulian
Montana Standard

The Associated Press Montana provides content pertaining to the state of 
Montana, which is updated every hour. The Associated Press content is the same 
information that is sent to television and radio stations throughout the 
state. Read the Associated Press Montana to learn about winning lottery 
numbers, sports, news, and emergency information, all up to date, every hour, 
every day.
A number of new publications have been added to NFB-NEWSLINE® since the start 
of 2015:
Breaking News:
ABC News
Android Central
Apple Insider
CBS News

National:
The Hill
International:
Daily Mail (London)
Herald Sun (Australia)
State newspapers:
Acadiana Advocate (Louisiana)
Atlanta Magazine (Georgia)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana)
Cincinnati Magazine (Ohio)
Indianapolis Monthly (Indiana)
Indianapolis Recorder (Indiana)
Los Angeles Magazine (California)
New Orleans Advocate (Louisiana)
Orange Coast Magazine (California)
Texas Observer (Texas)


Magazines:
All Recipes
The Atlantic
Guideposts
Diabetic Living
Lion Magazine
Braille Book Review
Talking Book Topics

The addition of Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review should be 
particularly useful to subscribers. Each book in these publications is listed 
as a separate article and can be individually emailed to the subscriber's 
inbox. These emails can then be forwarded to the subscriber's regional talking 
book library to request the books. This will make obtaining books from the 
talking book libraries faster and easier. Additionally, special programming 
has been used to allow the telephone access method to read the DB numbers as 
individual digits rather than whole numbers, making it easier for subscribers 
to record the numbers, if they wish to do so.

Announcements:
1.    New National Channel created on NFB-NEWSLINE®
.    National Channel can be found under Option 1 on the Main Menu
.    Contains the new ebook, Building the Lives We Want, The Seventy-Fifth
Anniversary History of the National Federation of the Blind, edited by Deborah 
Kent Stein.
.    Contains the Braille Monitor and Future Reflections

2.    Awaiting release of NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App v.2.1
.    Improvements will include a global search function
.    Using the iPhone, iPod, or iPad's location services to track emergency
weather alerts instead of the subscriber's home ZIP code.
.    Simplified Favorites and TV listings

3.    Continuous Reading Mode
.    Press 99 to hear entire publication read cover to cover
.    The publications are still navigable as before
.    Press 3 to move to the next article
.    Press the star (*) key to move to the next section
.    Press pound star (# *)to exit Continuous Reading Mode

4.    Magazines now alphabetized
.    Pressing 7 from the Main Menu leads to Magazines
.    Available option to select All Magazines Listed Alphabetically
.    The option to select Magazines from Categories is still available.

5.    NFB-NEWSLINE® offers emergency weather alerts, linked to the
subscriber's ZIP code, which are provided as soon as the subscriber logs into 
the service. This means that when a subscriber hears emergency tones on the 
television, but is unable to read the message scrolling on the screen, he or 
she can immediately call into NFB-NEWSLINE® and have the emergency weather 
alert read. Subscribers can then acquire additional information about upcoming 
weather, since NFB-NEWSLINE® subscribers also have access to up-to-date 
weather forecasts both on the phone and through the NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile App. 
Now, NFB-NEWSLINE® subscribers can access daily and weekly weather forecasts 
from NFB-NEWSLINE®. Just like the emergency weather alerts, the weather 
forecasts are provided to each subscriber based on his or her ZIP code, and 
weather alerts and forecasts can now be emailed to his or her inbox.


For more information on NFB-NEWSLINE®, please call (866) 504-7300 or email 
nfbnewsline at nfb.org.