eSight Launches New Insight-gathering Blog for Tackling Disability
Employment Issues
New York, NY - January 10, 2005 - After participating in eSight's new
blog
for the first time during the first week of January 2005, Lynn, an
eSight
Careers Network member, remarked, "You guys happen to be one of the
best-kept secrets in the disabled community!"
Lynn and other members of eSight Careers Network
(http://www.eSight.org)
began using the blog as a new accessible online tool to share their
insights
about disability employment issues on January 5.
eSight's new "Swimming in the Mainstream" blog provides a place to
share
ideas, based on personal experience, about how to effectively break
barriers
in disability employment.
Available at http://www.tabinc.org/sim/, eSight's "Swimming in the
Mainstream" blog is made possible by a grant the American Express
Foundation
has awarded to The Associated Blind, Inc., eSight's parent
organization.
"Our goal is to help those interested in disability employment issues
build
a reservoir of knowledge about what works best in obtaining meaningful
employment when you have a disability," says Nancy O'Connell,
executive
director of The Associated Blind, Inc., which is based in New York
City.
"We encourage people throughout the business community to join our
blog
discussions," O'Connell says. "Together we can give each other reality
checks for some of our toughest disability employment issues."
That dialogue with employers, O'Connell says, also gives job seekers
with
physical disabilities an opportunity to showcase their accomplishments
among
potential hiring managers in a casual networking environment.
She points out that "Swimming in the Mainstream" discussion topics on
the
eSight blog during 2005 will range from gaining adult status in the
eyes of
co-workers and learning how to benefit from failure on the job to
handling
reverse discrimination in the workplace and avoiding areas of
employment
with little opportunities for advancement.
Each discussion topic, she explains, will address a specific
disability
employment issue in a way which enables individuals with disabilities
to
better equip themselves or others to move into mainstream, meaningful
work
more quickly.
O'Connell urges individuals or organizations with web sites to
consider
syndicating this blog using the link "Syndicate this site (XML)", which
is
available on the "Swimming in the Mainstream" blog. They can share
eSight's
blog (at no cost) with visitors to their sites on a daily basis.
O'Connell
can be contacted at 212-683-4950 (telephone) or at [log in to unmask]

(e-mail) for details.
The Associated Blind, Inc. (TAB), a 66-year-old non-profit
organization,
developed eSight Careers Network, an Internet community for
information
sharing and knowledge building among people with disabilities.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Source: The Associated Blind, Inc.
Contact: Nancy O'Connell
212-683-4950
http://www.eSight.org
http://www.tabinc.org/sim/


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