[blindlaw] National Federation of the Blind Partners with AARP Publications

[Ford, Tim (DHS-OLS)]

Oops, sorry, I had not realized before now that the note was posted to
the blindlaw list.  My apologies, and I will try and be more careful in
the future!

Sincerely,
Tim Ford
 

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:42 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] National Federation of the Blind Partners with
AARP Publications

Well, if you are concerned about this you should bring it up on the
nfb-sponsors list, or with a NFB employee.

Dave

At 02:48 PM 1/24/2007, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>While I am of course excited about the new publications, I want to 
>mention my concern about NFB perhaps blending too much the membership 
>part of the organization with Newsline.
>
>  There is still that faction out there that does not want to be 
> associated with NFB, and this pres release does not help with that 
> problem.  I thought we had discussed this concept back at the first 
> Newsline seminar, and decided that Newsline needed to be kept quite 
> separate from the consumer organization side of things.
>
>I mention this only because I think it is best from a long term 
>standpoint to have as many people feel comfortable with using Newsline,

>and every time the NFB consumer organization side of things is 
>mentioned, it reinforces the adverse reaction.  I just had this come up

>last week, where someone did not want to be signed up for Newsline 
>until they were convinced that by signing up, he would not be 
>considered part of NFB.
>
>NFB is rightfully proud of Newsline, but I think the product stands for

>itself, and there is no need in my opinion for mentioning NFB in the 
>Newsline materials.  The name alone of NFB Newsline should be enough, 
>and if I had my choice, I would just call it Newsline for the Blind.
>
>Again, I think our goal and long term best interest is to have Newsline

>be considered as simply another library service, and not a proprietary 
>product of one organization.  There is still just too much emotion out 
>there, and we should not constantly be reminding people that Newsline 
>is somehow different.
>
>Sincerely,
>Timothy Ford

David Andrews and white cane Harry.


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