This is so cool! Barack Obama has added closed captioning to his videos. Read all about it from a deaf mom who advocated for rest of us with hearing disabilities! She Twittered and it worked.
With Obama leading the way, we can hope that others making videos will follow suit. It would make a huge difference.
Today I went to a group home across town where a dear family friend, Don Gabe, lives with six or so other people who need assisted living. Don is a former neighbor, and he and my husband, Jack, played cribbage once a week for years.
Don is one of those hidden treasures you find now and [...]
By Anne Caldwell
With the holidays approaching, many business owners decide to acknowledge employees with a party of sorts, as a gesture of appreciation and an opportunity to socialize together. What liability might a business owner face by sponsoring an event of this sort?
There are several aspects that need to be considered. From the [...]
If you and your spouse or partner are in business together, you gotta take time to read Hal Alpiar’s blog on how to make the relationship work. And how not to. Example:
Bedtime in the bedroom is simply not the right time or the right place to talk about sales, distribution, taxes, accounts payable, collections, irate [...]
“As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff,” says the New York Times, “and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover.”
Go check out The Voice of San Diego. Some columnists are saying it could be [...]
This just in from former Lockheed Martin co-worker Lee Graham:
If you live in Arizona, please read carefully! This new law takes effect Jan 1, 2009. Please understand you can have a license plate frame holder as long as it doesn’t cover the name Arizona on the top your license plate, if the license plate [...]
Time for an early morning meeting in Phoenix. Community service organization. I had email directions and my Google map directions.
In Phoenix, there’s a big difference between streets and avenues, and my directions were slightly off. After about five tries, I stopped at an AM PM to find a phone book so I could get [...]
Dozens of volunteers (including me) joined together at Seth Godin’s “Triiibes” website, and collaborated on an e book made up of questions and answers members put before the group.
This is our first collaboration, and, aside from the usual bumps in such a project, we got to the heart of the issue and created a [...]
Dillon Neeley is a happy, bright, and sometimes talkative little boy. This wasn’t always the case. When he was little, Dillon didn’t talk and couldn’t use sign language, so we were left guessing what he needed. He hated being hugged and touched, and didn’t interact with others, including children. We found [...]
Matthew Jones. Where does one begin to explain or tell his story? Matthew is eight years old and on the Autism Spectrum, specifically PDD NOS (pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified). He is a talker but his speech is odd and his language is delayed. He will melt your heart as Prince Charming, telling you, [...]
