Hello,
I have never been to a phode meeting, but if a lot of people are calling in, I
would contin*e with it. Along that same kine, I would be curious if anyone
would be open to changing the day of the week when we meet. I know for myself
and possibly others, Friday evenings are sometimes difficult because I have
other things going on. David, have you considered using Zoom for the phone
meetings? This would give users better audio cbarity if someone is doing a
phoduct demonstration. Zoom does still give you the ability to call in from a
landline phone if necessary. In addition to our phone meetings, perhaps having
special presentations devoted to specific topips might be a good idea. These
are just some thoughts to consider.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 4, 2018, at 1:01 PM, pegkane52@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi David and all.
If you get many callings when you have your phone meetings then I would keep
them going since they are valuable source for people, of course that will be
for you to decide.
Thank you very much for all your service and I do remember you from when you
worked for the lazy or rather I should say Braelin speak
Peggy Sent from my IPhone.
On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:40 PM, David Goldfield <david.goldfield@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks, Peggy.
I really should have mentioned the phone meetings in my original message and
I appreciate you reminding me about them. Initially, I had hoped that the
meetings could be held at a physical location. This would give people the
opportunity to not only demonstrate products but it would allow others to
try them out as well. I had difficulty in finding a location and someone
suggested that we meet via phone conference, which I hadn't considered up to
that point. I am also wondering if the phone meetings continue to be of
value or if we should dispense with them and just keep the list as our way
of communicating. Now that I'm working fulltime securing a location within
Philly on a weekend, while I won't say it's impossible, is, honestly, not
desirable, for a few reasons.
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
On 7/4/2018 12:35 PM, pegkane52@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi David, your list is very informative I really enjoy it and I will try to
make the next calling if possible. I also like anything that you tell us
that even gives us information that we wouldn’t otherwise no or else helps
us in someway.
Peggy Kane
Peggy Sent from my IPhone.
On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:26 PM, <martinelson1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<martinelson1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, David: your articles are very interesting. Keep them coming!
From: David Goldfield
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2018 12:21 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Quick Updates
1. I wanted to wish all of you a happy and blessed Independence Day.
2. I have not forgotten about our phone meetings. Our next meeting is
scheduled for Friday, July 27 at 8:00 PM and is open to any questions or
comments relating to technology.
3. As always, please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have
comments or questions regarding our group. If you have ideas for guest
presenters or if you feel you might want to present a particular product
or service please let me know about it. I would respectfully ask that any
questions of a technical nature about technology be directed publicly to
the list at blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and not to me privately. If
your question goes to the list other people can respond, especially since
I often don't have the time that I'd like to personally respond to emails.
Also, the fact is that I simply don't know everything and there are many
on this list with expertise on products or apps that I just don't have.
4. I'd be curious to know if this mailing list is meeting your needs and,
if not, what could be done to have it do so? As an example, are the
articles that I send out of value or would you prefer the list to just be
dedicated to discussion without the articles? If you do like reading
articles, are there topics you'd like to see more of or less of?
5. Depending on which email program you use you may have to perform a
"reply all" if you want your replies to a message to be sent to the list.
A few months back Thunderbird made an annoying change which meant that
pressing ctrl+R to reply to a list message would send your reply to just
the original sender and not to the list. One workaround for this is to
press ctrl+shift+R (for Reply All) which should guarantee that you reply
will go to the list. There is a slightly more technical workaround which
can force Thunderbird to revert to the older and, in my opinion, more
preferred way where just pressing ctrl+R sends a reply from a mailing list
to the entire list, which is, I think, what most people expect. Off the
top of my head I don't remember the exact set of steps I used to adjust
this setting but, if you run into this issue, let me know and I'll try and
post them. I think users of Outlook should be OK but I can't speak for
other email programs.
6. As always, if you know someone who could benefit from this list don't
hesitate to provide them with the information on how to join the list. To
subscribe, the email address is
blind-philly-comp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In the subject type
subscribe
and then send the message.
There are just so many mailing lists out there dealing with various types
of assistive technology and, to be frank, I'm wondering if this list is
still relevant. Initially, I started this as a group for people in or near
the Philly area because it was my assumption that a city as big as Philly
needed a support group for visually impaired computer users. That still
may be the case but I'm just trying to ascertain this. You can be as
honest as you want to about this as I don't have an ego when it comes to
this group. If it's meeting people's needs then it will continue. If it
isn't I have no problem in seeing it go away because, as I said, there are
many discussion groups dealing with technology both in general and lists
dedicated to a specific product.
Take care.
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com