Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-10 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Scott,

Thank you sincerely for replying, firstly, for absolute clarity it is not my 
intention to start any form of mass criticism or, flaming, of you and what you 
said to Leo.

I appreciate the full context and listened twice through before writing to the 
list.

I'm still not completely in your line of thinking when it comes to phraseology 
over what is, and what is not, accessible, usable or operable by a blind user 
with a screen reader.

Sure, Face Book, Twitter and Linked In all can be used, but this is with a 
major emphasis on can, and not, are easily, or, easily done so by the masses 
within the blind world.

How for example do you even open an account with any of these three, the last 
time I checked, all three use screen capture, which even when offering an audio 
option, these are outrageously poor quality and to be frank, require the 
patience, not to mention hearing, of a god to manage to decipher.

Now once you have your account opened, sure its possible, with time, patience, 
constant adapting and learning to figure how to use such services, but, they do 
very little to assist us, and I struggle to believe for a second that any of 
the major social networks have even considered our user group.

Now, you rightly stat that this was not the purpose of your call to Leo's show, 
and, indeed again rightly that I myself am free to contact him. I have done so 
before on a range of issues, even to discuss Lemonade of all things.

The thing that I take note, and to an extent, exception to, is in your tone and 
mannerism within the context of the conversation, what I heard was a blind 
person telling a hugely influential internet and online presence commentator 
that these services are all usable.

now you and I may have one definition for usable, you might say that usable 
simply means, with a hole load of ball ache, and a huge degree of screen reader 
experience and knowledge you can use those services, but, to the wider 
population and sighted user, you can bet your bottom dollar that they took such 
phraseology and terminology to convey that these services are not only usable 
in the widest definition, but, with a modicum of ease and simplicity, such was 
the nature of your answer.

This was just my view, and as a blind lobbyist and commentator on our 
community, not to mention someone who has a considerable experience in the 
internet industry, I believe quite strongly in this stance.

Kindly.



Regards,

Neil Barnfather

Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather

TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, 
Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com

URL: - www.talknav.com
e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
Phone: - +44  844 999 4199



On 10 Jul 2012, at 00:44, Scott Rumery wrote:

 Hello Neil,
   I appreciate your comments but I think that you are maybe missing some 
 of the context of my conversation with Leo.  Is it true that some of these 
 social networks are a bit problematic for us blind people to use?  Yes they 
 can be, but I think as a blind person that uses them on a daily basis that 
 they are usable, and I believe that Leo's question was not if they were 
 totally accessible, but if they were able to be used by blind people.
 
   Could I have gotten on my soapbox about some of the inaccessibility of 
 some of these sites?  I could have, but remember that this is a radio show 
 and my time with Leo was coming to an end.
 
   Remember my call to Leo was to discuss using social networks to build 
 an audience for our business that we are trying to get started, not to 
 discuss whether or not we as blind people can use all of these sites.  As for 
 my answer  that they are absolutely  accessible, I meant that they are 
 accessible in a general sense of the word, not that they are completely 
 accessible.
 
   I hope that this clears it up a little, and if you want to talk about 
 the inaccessibility of these services then you are more than welcome to give 
 Leo a call yourself this weekend to talk to him about it.  His show begins at 
 2:00 P.M. Eastern Time on Saturday and goes until 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time.  It 
 is on Sunday afternoon as well at the same time.  His toll free number is 
 1-888-875-637.
 
   Scott Rumery
 On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
 
 I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just how 
 usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and services 
 are.
 
 This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core 
 sector of the internet community, and Mr. Leo Laporte himself, thee tech 
 guy, just how dam lazy, lousy and poor many web-sites, online services and 
 applications truly are… and Scott just said, oh yeah, sure they are 
 accessible and all but completely usable.
 
 The majority of folk would even argue that opening an 

Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-10 Thread Scott Rumery
Hi Neal,
I completely understand your point of view on this matter, and I 
respect your input, but I still disagree with some of the things that you have 
said about my response to Leo's question as to whether or not social networks 
were usable by blind people.  In my opinion these services are accessible to 
us.  Does that mean that they are 100% accessible?  No they probably aren't.  I 
do believe that 100% accessibility is what we should all get just like our 
sighted counterparts, but it is my belief that this is a bit unrealistic.  
Remember we are a minority section of the population and these services really 
probably do not give the blind computer user a second thought, even though they 
should.

As for your comment about setting up an account with one of these 
services, it is true that this can be a very aggravating thing for the blind 
user to do, but because of spammers this is not going to change.  Are the audio 
screen Captchas awful?  Of course they are, but they are designed that way for 
a reason, and that reason is not to make it harder for us blind users to sign 
up for their service, audio captchas are hard in an attempt to keep a robot 
computer from being able to sign up for these services.  I know that you are 
probably aware of this, but I thought that just in case you weren't I would 
explain this.

I would also like to have an easier way to solve these screen captchas 
but at the moment there really isn't a good solution, unless you use Web Vissum 
which is a Firefox extension you just have to do the best that you can with the 
captcha. 

I went back and listened to my conversation with Leo before writing 
this message in an attempt to see if I was missing something, but I still 
cannot see what it is that I said that you have an issue with.  Could I have 
been a little less enthusiastic with my Absolutely remark?  I guess so, but 
again, I was not on the radio to talk about the accessibility of these sites, 
and when Leo asked me the question as to whether these social networks are 
USABLE by blind people, I answered him with as honest an answer as I could 
think of right on the spot.

One more thing that I would like to say on this matter is that I am not 
on the radio very often, so I was a little nervous, and Leo Laport is probably 
someone in the technology field that I really look up to and I was a little in 
awe of the fact that I was talking to him.

I think that now we have said all that there is to say on this subject 
and I suggest that we just agree to disagree and move on.

Scott Rumery
On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:

 Scott,
 
 Thank you sincerely for replying, firstly, for absolute clarity it is not my 
 intention to start any form of mass criticism or, flaming, of you and what 
 you said to Leo.
 
 I appreciate the full context and listened twice through before writing to 
 the list.
 
 I'm still not completely in your line of thinking when it comes to 
 phraseology over what is, and what is not, accessible, usable or operable by 
 a blind user with a screen reader.
 
 Sure, Face Book, Twitter and Linked In all can be used, but this is with a 
 major emphasis on can, and not, are easily, or, easily done so by the masses 
 within the blind world.
 
 How for example do you even open an account with any of these three, the last 
 time I checked, all three use screen capture, which even when offering an 
 audio option, these are outrageously poor quality and to be frank, require 
 the patience, not to mention hearing, of a god to manage to decipher.
 
 Now once you have your account opened, sure its possible, with time, 
 patience, constant adapting and learning to figure how to use such services, 
 but, they do very little to assist us, and I struggle to believe for a second 
 that any of the major social networks have even considered our user group.
 
 Now, you rightly stat that this was not the purpose of your call to Leo's 
 show, and, indeed again rightly that I myself am free to contact him. I have 
 done so before on a range of issues, even to discuss Lemonade of all things.
 
 The thing that I take note, and to an extent, exception to, is in your tone 
 and mannerism within the context of the conversation, what I heard was a 
 blind person telling a hugely influential internet and online presence 
 commentator that these services are all usable.
 
 now you and I may have one definition for usable, you might say that usable 
 simply means, with a hole load of ball ache, and a huge degree of screen 
 reader experience and knowledge you can use those services, but, to the wider 
 population and sighted user, you can bet your bottom dollar that they took 
 such phraseology and terminology to convey that these services are not only 
 usable in the widest definition, but, with a modicum of ease and simplicity, 
 such was the nature of your answer.
 
 This was just my view, and as a blind 

Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-10 Thread Tara Prakash
Easy alternative to captcha is some problem the answer to which you re 
supposed to write in the edit box. What month comes after November? How much 
is 5 and 5?
The way some of the networks use audio alternative, which works pretty fine 
in some cases, they may have problem solution kind of alternative aswell.


Coming to the topic, social networks are not as intuitively accessible to us 
as they are to the people they are originally designed for. Is there a 
solution? With the popularity of Siri we will see  many talk to type and 
voice commands options on the web. Once social networks start implementing 
them, we can live happily ever after. I can bet it will happen very soon. In 
next four years if not sooner.





- Original Message - 
From: Scott Rumery blindfait...@gmail.com

To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social 
Media



Hi Neal,
I completely understand your point of view on this matter, and I respect 
your input, but I still disagree with some of the things that you have said 
about my response to Leo's question as to whether or not social networks 
were usable by blind people.  In my opinion these services are accessible to 
us.  Does that mean that they are 100% accessible?  No they probably aren't. 
I do believe that 100% accessibility is what we should all get just like our 
sighted counterparts, but it is my belief that this is a bit unrealistic. 
Remember we are a minority section of the population and these services 
really probably do not give the blind computer user a second thought, even 
though they should.


As for your comment about setting up an account with one of these services, 
it is true that this can be a very aggravating thing for the blind user to 
do, but because of spammers this is not going to change.  Are the audio 
screen Captchas awful?  Of course they are, but they are designed that way 
for a reason, and that reason is not to make it harder for us blind users to 
sign up for their service, audio captchas are hard in an attempt to keep a 
robot computer from being able to sign up for these services.  I know that 
you are probably aware of this, but I thought that just in case you weren't 
I would explain this.


I would also like to have an easier way to solve these screen captchas but 
at the moment there really isn't a good solution, unless you use Web Vissum 
which is a Firefox extension you just have to do the best that you can with 
the captcha.


I went back and listened to my conversation with Leo before writing this 
message in an attempt to see if I was missing something, but I still cannot 
see what it is that I said that you have an issue with.  Could I have been a 
little less enthusiastic with my Absolutely remark?  I guess so, but 
again, I was not on the radio to talk about the accessibility of these 
sites, and when Leo asked me the question as to whether these social 
networks are USABLE by blind people, I answered him with as honest an 
answer as I could think of right on the spot.


One more thing that I would like to say on this matter is that I am not on 
the radio very often, so I was a little nervous, and Leo Laport is probably 
someone in the technology field that I really look up to and I was a little 
in awe of the fact that I was talking to him.


I think that now we have said all that there is to say on this subject and I 
suggest that we just agree to disagree and move on.


Scott Rumery
On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:


Scott,

Thank you sincerely for replying, firstly, for absolute clarity it is not 
my intention to start any form of mass criticism or, flaming, of you and 
what you said to Leo.


I appreciate the full context and listened twice through before writing to 
the list.


I'm still not completely in your line of thinking when it comes to 
phraseology over what is, and what is not, accessible, usable or operable 
by a blind user with a screen reader.


Sure, Face Book, Twitter and Linked In all can be used, but this is with a 
major emphasis on can, and not, are easily, or, easily done so by the 
masses within the blind world.


How for example do you even open an account with any of these three, the 
last time I checked, all three use screen capture, which even when 
offering an audio option, these are outrageously poor quality and to be 
frank, require the patience, not to mention hearing, of a god to manage to 
decipher.


Now once you have your account opened, sure its possible, with time, 
patience, constant adapting and learning to figure how to use such 
services, but, they do very little to assist us, and I struggle to believe 
for a second that any of the major social networks have even considered 
our user group.


Now, you rightly stat that this was not the purpose of your call to Leo's 
show, and, indeed again rightly that I myself am free to contact him. I 
have done so

Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-10 Thread VaShaun Jones
Scott I would not continue to play tennis with this issue. Always remember that 
a person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still.
On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav for...@talknav.com 
wrote:

 Scott,
 
 Thank you sincerely for replying, firstly, for absolute clarity it is not my 
 intention to start any form of mass criticism or, flaming, of you and what 
 you said to Leo.
 
 I appreciate the full context and listened twice through before writing to 
 the list.
 
 I'm still not completely in your line of thinking when it comes to 
 phraseology over what is, and what is not, accessible, usable or operable by 
 a blind user with a screen reader.
 
 Sure, Face Book, Twitter and Linked In all can be used, but this is with a 
 major emphasis on can, and not, are easily, or, easily done so by the masses 
 within the blind world.
 
 How for example do you even open an account with any of these three, the last 
 time I checked, all three use screen capture, which even when offering an 
 audio option, these are outrageously poor quality and to be frank, require 
 the patience, not to mention hearing, of a god to manage to decipher.
 
 Now once you have your account opened, sure its possible, with time, 
 patience, constant adapting and learning to figure how to use such services, 
 but, they do very little to assist us, and I struggle to believe for a second 
 that any of the major social networks have even considered our user group.
 
 Now, you rightly stat that this was not the purpose of your call to Leo's 
 show, and, indeed again rightly that I myself am free to contact him. I have 
 done so before on a range of issues, even to discuss Lemonade of all things.
 
 The thing that I take note, and to an extent, exception to, is in your tone 
 and mannerism within the context of the conversation, what I heard was a 
 blind person telling a hugely influential internet and online presence 
 commentator that these services are all usable.
 
 now you and I may have one definition for usable, you might say that usable 
 simply means, with a hole load of ball ache, and a huge degree of screen 
 reader experience and knowledge you can use those services, but, to the wider 
 population and sighted user, you can bet your bottom dollar that they took 
 such phraseology and terminology to convey that these services are not only 
 usable in the widest definition, but, with a modicum of ease and simplicity, 
 such was the nature of your answer.
 
 This was just my view, and as a blind lobbyist and commentator on our 
 community, not to mention someone who has a considerable experience in the 
 internet industry, I believe quite strongly in this stance.
 
 Kindly.
 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Neil Barnfather
 
 Talks List Administrator
 Twitter @neilbarnfather
 
 TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple 
 iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
 accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com
 
 URL: - www.talknav.com
 e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
 Phone: - +44  844 999 4199
 
 
 
 On 10 Jul 2012, at 00:44, Scott Rumery wrote:
 
 Hello Neil,
  I appreciate your comments but I think that you are maybe missing some 
 of the context of my conversation with Leo.  Is it true that some of these 
 social networks are a bit problematic for us blind people to use?  Yes they 
 can be, but I think as a blind person that uses them on a daily basis that 
 they are usable, and I believe that Leo's question was not if they were 
 totally accessible, but if they were able to be used by blind people.
 
  Could I have gotten on my soapbox about some of the inaccessibility of 
 some of these sites?  I could have, but remember that this is a radio show 
 and my time with Leo was coming to an end.
 
  Remember my call to Leo was to discuss using social networks to build 
 an audience for our business that we are trying to get started, not to 
 discuss whether or not we as blind people can use all of these sites.  As 
 for my answer  that they are absolutely  accessible, I meant that they are 
 accessible in a general sense of the word, not that they are completely 
 accessible.
 
  I hope that this clears it up a little, and if you want to talk about 
 the inaccessibility of these services then you are more than welcome to give 
 Leo a call yourself this weekend to talk to him about it.  His show begins 
 at 2:00 P.M. Eastern Time on Saturday and goes until 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time. 
  It is on Sunday afternoon as well at the same time.  His toll free number 
 is 1-888-875-637.
 
  Scott Rumery
 On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
 
 I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just 
 how usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and 
 services are.
 
 This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core 
 sector of the internet 

Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-09 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just how 
usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and services are.

This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core 
sector of the internet community, and Mr. Leo Laporte himself, thee tech guy, 
just how dam lazy, lousy and poor many web-sites, online services and 
applications truly are… and Scott just said, oh yeah, sure they are accessible 
and all but completely usable.

The majority of folk would even argue that opening an account with many of 
these services is hell on earth with screen capture etc, let alone the myriad 
of unlabelled buttons, poorly laid out tables, difficult to navigate interfaces 
and UI's, oh, not to mention, Face Book's complete inaccessibility of their iOS 
App…

I would have focused on that, well Leo, let me tell you, some of it works, but 
when we say works, we mean partially, or that with a little guess work we can 
figure it out, but, the truth is that Face Book, Linked In, Twitter etc could 
do way, way more to help us…

To my mind, and I'm sorry if this is taken harshly, Scott had a prime 
opportunity to really state for the record to a hugely influential person in 
this field just how bad things are, and failed to do so…

I'm sure that the promotion was good etc, but, what we need to be doing is 
outlining to these people our predicament and what we need them to be doing for 
us.

for example, check out the, stress not yet completed, www.TheOEF.org

its just my view...


Regards,

Neil Barnfather

Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather

TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, 
Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com

URL: - www.talknav.com
e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
Phone: - +44  844 999 4199



On 9 Jul 2012, at 00:20, VaShaun Jones wrote:

 On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with 
 Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business. 
 Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of radio 
 and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast network 
 and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We commend Scott 
 for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the firm and we are 
 proud to have him on our team.
 
 
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Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-09 Thread Scott Rumery
Hello Neil,
I appreciate your comments but I think that you are maybe missing some 
of the context of my conversation with Leo.  Is it true that some of these 
social networks are a bit problematic for us blind people to use?  Yes they can 
be, but I think as a blind person that uses them on a daily basis that they are 
usable, and I believe that Leo's question was not if they were totally 
accessible, but if they were able to be used by blind people.

Could I have gotten on my soapbox about some of the inaccessibility of 
some of these sites?  I could have, but remember that this is a radio show and 
my time with Leo was coming to an end.

Remember my call to Leo was to discuss using social networks to build 
an audience for our business that we are trying to get started, not to discuss 
whether or not we as blind people can use all of these sites.  As for my answer 
 that they are absolutely  accessible, I meant that they are accessible in a 
general sense of the word, not that they are completely accessible.

I hope that this clears it up a little, and if you want to talk about 
the inaccessibility of these services then you are more than welcome to give 
Leo a call yourself this weekend to talk to him about it.  His show begins at 
2:00 P.M. Eastern Time on Saturday and goes until 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time.  It 
is on Sunday afternoon as well at the same time.  His toll free number is 
1-888-875-637.

Scott Rumery
On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:

 I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just how 
 usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and services are.
 
 This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core 
 sector of the internet community, and Mr. Leo Laporte himself, thee tech guy, 
 just how dam lazy, lousy and poor many web-sites, online services and 
 applications truly are… and Scott just said, oh yeah, sure they are 
 accessible and all but completely usable.
 
 The majority of folk would even argue that opening an account with many of 
 these services is hell on earth with screen capture etc, let alone the myriad 
 of unlabelled buttons, poorly laid out tables, difficult to navigate 
 interfaces and UI's, oh, not to mention, Face Book's complete inaccessibility 
 of their iOS App…
 
 I would have focused on that, well Leo, let me tell you, some of it works, 
 but when we say works, we mean partially, or that with a little guess work we 
 can figure it out, but, the truth is that Face Book, Linked In, Twitter etc 
 could do way, way more to help us…
 
 To my mind, and I'm sorry if this is taken harshly, Scott had a prime 
 opportunity to really state for the record to a hugely influential person in 
 this field just how bad things are, and failed to do so…
 
 I'm sure that the promotion was good etc, but, what we need to be doing is 
 outlining to these people our predicament and what we need them to be doing 
 for us.
 
 for example, check out the, stress not yet completed, www.TheOEF.org
 
 its just my view...
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Neil Barnfather
 
 Talks List Administrator
 Twitter @neilbarnfather
 
 TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple 
 iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
 accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com
 
 URL: - www.talknav.com
 e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
 Phone: - +44  844 999 4199
 
 
 
 On 9 Jul 2012, at 00:20, VaShaun Jones wrote:
 
 On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with 
 Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business. 
 Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of radio 
 and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast network 
 and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We commend 
 Scott for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the firm and we 
 are proud to have him on our team.
 
 
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Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-08 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Hi,

Personally, and this is just my opinion, but I think the way forward
for this venture would be to contact all of the major blind
organizations around the world that speak english and try to establish
some form of system where they would recommend you to new iDevice
users.
Obviously posting on places like viphone doesn't hurt at all, but even
at the price of $6 for 20 minutes, you're competing against 1000 plus
people who are willing to give out help for free, which seems like
much more of a compelling option if people are short on funds for
example. Develop a social media presence for sure, but try to catch
new users before they discover resources like viphone and applevis.
It's been a few years since I've visited, but I remember the Zone BBS
www.zonebbs.com used to sell add space for $10 a month which might be
a good place to start.

I wish you luck, although this is the last I will say on list.

Cheers,
Ben.

On 7/9/12, Scott Rumery blindfait...@gmail.com wrote:
 Wow!  This guy is really good, you should give this guy a raise.  Oh yeah,
 he isn't making money yet, but I know that will change soon…

 Scott
 On Jul 8, 2012, at 7:20 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:

 On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with
 Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business.
 Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of
 radio and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast
 network and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We
 commend Scott for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the
 firm and we are proud to have him on our team.


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Re: What Leo Laporte Had To Say About Fedora Outlier LLC And Social Media

2012-07-08 Thread VaShaun Jones
We are not preaching to the choir. We realize the value that the list and the 
community has. We give allot of stuff out for free and that's why we post to 
the list and even refer people to the list. We appreciate the comments for sure 
and will look at those avenues you mentioned. Check out the site and see if you 
would like to follow us as we empower others. It never helps to have a friend 
lend advice and thats what we need. friends, friends and more friends!
On Jul 8, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose b...@benmr.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 Personally, and this is just my opinion, but I think the way forward
 for this venture would be to contact all of the major blind
 organizations around the world that speak english and try to establish
 some form of system where they would recommend you to new iDevice
 users.
 Obviously posting on places like viphone doesn't hurt at all, but even
 at the price of $6 for 20 minutes, you're competing against 1000 plus
 people who are willing to give out help for free, which seems like
 much more of a compelling option if people are short on funds for
 example. Develop a social media presence for sure, but try to catch
 new users before they discover resources like viphone and applevis.
 It's been a few years since I've visited, but I remember the Zone BBS
 www.zonebbs.com used to sell add space for $10 a month which might be
 a good place to start.
 
 I wish you luck, although this is the last I will say on list.
 
 Cheers,
 Ben.
 
 On 7/9/12, Scott Rumery blindfait...@gmail.com wrote:
 Wow!  This guy is really good, you should give this guy a raise.  Oh yeah,
 he isn't making money yet, but I know that will change soon…
 
 Scott
 On Jul 8, 2012, at 7:20 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
 
 On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with
 Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business.
 Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of
 radio and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast
 network and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We
 commend Scott for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the
 firm and we are proud to have him on our team.
 
 
 Click to listen to the full dialog between Leo and Scott.
 
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