[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help! Bookshare Has Been Invaded!
- From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:40:59 -0400
Hi,
Is the credit for validating still less than for scanning? Perhaps if they
were the same, that would entice more validaters to do that part.
Thanks.
Jim
James D Homme,
Usability Engineering
Highmark Inc.
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
412-544-1810
"It's more important for me to start to do the right thing than it is to
wait until I think I
can do it just right."
"Grandma Cindy"
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Wonderful request. I don't know when the next
newsletter to members come out, but I suggest you send
this to Lisa Friendly and ask her to include it in the
newsletter--or on the bookshare home page. Maybe then
we'll get some members who aren't volunteers to
volunteer.
One reason the step one page is so long now is that
we're restricted to 5 books at a time. I used to
figure that as long as I was going to do the books I'd
take them off the download list, and I know other
people operated under that assumption, too, but then
some people squawked that if left on other people
would take them (they didn't, as it turned out, and I
got them eventually) and the 5-book limit was put in.
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fellow Booksharians, your help is needed to respond
> to a massive
> invasion. We're dealing with a motley crew of
> lovers, detectives,
> aliens, wizards, soldiers, murderers, terrorists,
> faeries, cowboys, and
> mad scientists. An astounding 442 books have invaded
> our step 1 page,
> refusing to give quarter until validation occurs.
> Indeed, a regiment of
> dedicated volunteers is working at an astonishing
> pace, adding to the
> number of books found on step 1. Now Bookshare needs
> a batalian of book
> lovers who will take up their validating tools and
> conquer this
> invasion. If you're signed up as a volunteer, will
> you please take a
> book that interests you and validate it over the
> next couple of weeks?
> If we work together, we can move these books into
> the Bookshare
> collection where they belong.
>
> If you haven't done any volunteering, this is a
> perfect time to give it
> a try. All you need to validate a book is a love of
> reading and a
> program to use for proofreading a document such as
> Microsoft Word,
> Kurzweil, or Openbook. Volunteers receive help and
> training both on the
> lists and one on one in the Bookshare community
> room. You don't have to
> be a computer expert to be a great volunteer. If
> you're ready to give it
> a try, email volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to ask the
> Bookshare staff to set
> you up as a volunteer. That's your first step toward
> actively making
> Bookshare better. (smile)
>
> Monica Willyard
>
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