[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: [Beneblog: Technology Meets Society] Bookshare.org and Lobster
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:42:41 -0500
Smoked lobster? Oh, I'll bet that is delicious! <Smile>
Jana
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From: John Glass
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] FW: [Beneblog: Technology Meets Society]
Bookshare.org and Lobster
Hi,
I thought all list subscribers would enjoy reading this message from Jim.
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From: Jim Fruchterman [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:03 PM
To: John Glass
Subject: [Beneblog: Technology Meets Society] Bookshare.org and Lobster
We just did a site upgrade on Bookshare.org: our third in as many months.
Among the dozens of improvements in this update are two that I'm
particularly jazzed about. The first is the initial international changes as
we take Bookshare.org global. Users with disabilities outside the U.S. can
easily see which books have global permissions, which are required when we
can't rely on our copyright exemption (which only works inside the U.S.).
Now that it's easy to see which books are available, we need to ensure that
we add many more books with these permissions. Crucial first steps on the
road to taking this service global!
The second one may not sound like a big deal, but we greatly simplified
the process of signing up for Bookshare.org for schools. This is crucial as
we continue to rapidly expand into serving students. It used to take lots of
handholding from Susie Mckinnon, our Bookshare.org sales manager, for
schools to sign up. Now I'm getting delighted emails from Susie about
multiple schools that simply went to the website and signed up by themselves
in the first day or two of the upgrade. Now, that's the way a great website
is supposed to work!
What does this have to do with lobster? Not much, other than the fact that
tomorrow is Mother's Day. My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my
wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind
enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business
leaders are doing for Mom. Oh, and they called me a notable business leader!
I hope you have/had a great Mother's Day.
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