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See below for PARAolimpic coverage. 
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From: organizersforum at yahoogroups.com [mailto:organizersforum at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Walsh
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:45 PM
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Thank you.

I thought this might be of interest to you and others.

IPC announces coverage for London 2012 Paralympic Games

July 9, 2012

The International Paralympic Committee will provide live coverage on Paralympic.org of athletes competing for gold, silver and bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

BONN, Germany - The International Paralympic Committee has announced plans to provide the most comprehensive online coverage ever for a Paralympics including broadcasting 580 hours of live sport from London 2012 via www.paralympic.org during the Games.

During each day of London 2012, the IPC website will broadcast four streams of uninterrupted live coverage from the Paralympics with English commentary, including daily coverage of swimming, wheelchair basketball and athletics, whilst a fourth channel will cover a range of sports. A fifth channel will broadcast a mixture of sports with Spanish commentary.

In addition more than 1,000 hours of sporting action from a number of venues, including individual races and matches, will be made available on www.Paralympic.org as video on demand during the course of the Games. Two daily five minute news bulletins will also be produced in English and Spanish.

Supporting the live and on-demand video streams will be 22 writers who will produce daily in-depth previews and reviews of all 20 Paralympic sports, whilst feature writers will have regular interviews and profile stories of the leading athletes. It is estimated around 750 stories will be uploaded to the IPC's website between 24 August and 10 September.

Six photographers will ensure that every single angle of the Games from track side to behind the scenes is covered and a team of social media experts will ensure all content is readily available via facebook.com/paralympicgames and twitter.com/paralympic as well as posting some exclusive material.

Craig Spence, the IPC's Media and Communications Director, said: "Our aim is to make www.paralympic.org the number one place in the world for content about the Paralympic Games during London 2012.

"A team of 60 people will be delivering the most comprehensive coverage ever through live action, video on demand, images, reports, social media and live results.

"We want the excitement and drama that spectators feel in the venues in London to be conveyed all across the world. No matter whether you're sitting at home or at work www.paralympic.org will be the best place for information and action during the Games.

"We're very excited about all our plans, and in the coming weeks ahead of the Games we will be making some major announcements about new innovations we will be bringing to the Paralympics.

These will give all visitors to our website the feeling that they are actually sat in the venue watching the sporting action or attending one of the Ceremonies."

The IPC's online coverage during the Games can be broken down to the following:

Direct link for further details:

http://www2.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics/Features/2012/July/09/IPC-announces-coverage-for-London-2012-Paralympic-Games.aspx

Helen Walsh

DDM

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From: Jessica Lehman <jlehman7 at gmail.com>
To: disabilityorganizing at googlegroups.com; organizersforum at yahoogroups.com; ndla-general-list- at googlegroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:17 PM
Subject: [organizersforum] Organizer's Forum on Disability History: Tuesday, July 17, 1-2 pm EST (10-11 am PST)

***** Please forward to your email lists *****

Please join our next Organizer's Forum call: Disability History in Organizing

How do movement activists learn about and pass on our history? What history do we learn, and what may be left out? How is knowing our history important for building our movement?

Speakers TBA.

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1-2 pm Eastern Time (10-11 Pacific)

Call in number: 712-432-0080

Code: 193134#

To get an idea of who joins our calls, if you are interested in joining on Tuesday, please fill out this quick form! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHAxWEV5Y3h3MUtrcW1LYXhTcjZyYUE6MQ

CART: The call will have real-time captioning (CART)! The website where you will be able to view the captioning is http://www.2020captioning.com/livefeed.php?event=AAPD  Thank you to the National Disability Leadership Alliance for sponsoring the captioning of this call.

** If you need additional accommodations to participate in the call, please let us know as soon as possible. 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Organizer's Forum has a call on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-2 pm EST (10-11 am PST). 

NOTE: We have a listserv for discussion on these issues. It's organizersforum at yahoogroups.com; please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organizersforum/ and click "Join this group!" We also have our separate announcement-only listserv to allow everyone to easily get notices about the Organizer's Forum, called disabilityorganizing at googlegroups.com. Please email us to be added.

We like to have an idea of who joins the calls but can't do introductions since we have so many participants. If possible, please email us if you plan to be on (ahead of time or even during the call). Thanks!

We also have a facebook page! We can use this is a way to continue conversation beyond the monthly calls. Please "like" Organizer's Forum on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?cropsuccess&id=680444432#%21/pages/Organizers-Forum/228971863811531?sk=info

Background:

The Organizing Workgroup of the National Disability Leadership Alliance hosts these calls the third Tuesday of every month as a resource for disability organizers, in an effort toward building the organizing capacity of the disability community across the country.  They generally follow the format of a Welcome followed by 2-3 experts in a given area speaking for a few minutes on their experiences, advice and challenges. The calls include a 20-30 minute question and answer period.

To ask questions via CART: Sign-in to the Chat function on the right side of the transcript and type your question.  One of the call facilitators will read out any questions posted there.

Because we want to maximize the generously donated CART services, we will begin the call promptly at 1pm and end the call promptly at 2pm (eastern time).  A few other reminders about call etiquette:
·         Say your name before each time you speak
·         Speak one at a time
·         Speak slowly and as clearly as possible

So you can mark your calendars now, Organizer's Forums are held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month.  If you have suggestions for call topics or presenters for upcoming topics, please email them to jlehman7 at gmail.com or dcoleman at cdrnys.org.

Looking forward to talking with you all!

Jessica Lehman and Diane Coleman
Co-Chairs, National Organizing Workgroup

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