[Nfbwv-talk] Braille Monitor Message from Gary Wunder

[Dave Allen]

Hi Charlene!

I understand what he's saying. Heck, I frequently grabbed it even when I
wasn't a member, but always enjoyed it, as well as recommended it highly for
valuable content if not current informnation.

Sadly, my suspicion is that his efforts are mainly only failing because
people today only have a 30 second attention span, compared to the days when
we were growing up. I'm not necessarily saying it's all their fault either.
I'm only saying that we didn't have very many distractions back in the day,
so we apporitioned our discressionary time more appropriately than we now
can.

Today's experience offers a good example of this. It is a good practice to
remember to at least put your cell phone on mute if not turn it off when
you're in a meeting. 

Sadly, I failed to do that today when we were in a meeting with the banker
updating various things. Fortunately though, since I had failed to do that,
I received a text advising that our expected ride home had been pre-empted,
and it provided instructions for an alternative solution that worked very
well. At least I'm not still hanging around the bank wondering where my ride
is, nor thinking that our hired help had abandoned us.  

That's a text I would have missed completely if I had only been a good boy.
*lol*

Cheers,
Dave  

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From: Nfbwv-talk [mailto:nfbwv-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Smyth,
Charlene R via Nfbwv-talk
Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 6:49 a.m.
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Subject: [Nfbwv-talk] Braille Monitor Message from Gary Wunder

Please see the message below from Gary Wunder and share it with all of your
chapter members.  The Braille Monitor is an excellent resource for keeping
up with what is happening in the NFB, in the blind community, and for
helping us to get to know our brothers and sisters across the country.

Charlene

Greetings,

I have just returned from convention, and I write to tell you what I found
when talking with members about the Braille Monitor. Normally I thank people
for reading and ask how we might improve the publication. To my great
surprise, I had many members tell me they had heard of the publication but
did not get the magazine because they do not read Braille. Others said that
they had never heard of the magazine through their chapters or their
affiliates and were embarrassed to realize the Monitor is our flagship
publication.

For this reason I write to those of you who have closest contact with our
members to enlist your help. We put a lot of time, energy, and money into
this resource, and we must find a way to get our members subscribed if they
want to know as much as they can about what is happening in the Federation.
So, with the indulgence of those of you who already know this by heart, let
me say that the Monitor is published eleven times a year. It is available in
Braille, print, and in narrated audio on a flash drive readable with an NLS
player. It is available through email and as a podcast which one can find
through iTunes. It is on the web as an HTML document and in Microsoft Word.
It can also be read with human narration by article.

To subscribe, send an email to slittle at nfb.org<mailto:slittle at nfb.org>,
telling Sonia the form in which you would like the publication. Give her
your address if you want an audio flash drive, Braille, or print. Remember
that if you want the podcast, this you will get through iTunes just as you
would any other podcast.

So whether you read Braille, print, or prefer to do your reading with the
voice provided by your screen reader, the Monitor is available to you.
Whether you prefer your portable Victor or HIMS product, the Monitor can go
where you go. Enjoy the Monitor with the markup you are accustomed to find
in a DAISY book or take it as a podcast and enjoy the convenience of it
coming to you automatically. The choice is yours.

I ask that you not only do this yourself but that you make the Monitor a
part of your chapter's agenda-letting people know it is available, seeing
that they get signed up, and talking about articles that appear each month.
Many of the articles can act as a springboard to philosophical discussions
about being blind and can explain the traditions and present challenges we
face as brothers and sisters working in this movement.

Please write to me with any questions or to offer ways in which I can make
the Monitor more interesting. And please, use this resource. I am attaching
a copy for your review.

Warmly,

Gary Wunder, Editor
The Braille Monitor
gwunder at nfb.org<mailto:gwunder at nfb.org>




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