Hello.
As I am new to this list, I wanted to write a brief email, introducing 
myself to the group.
My name is David Goldfield.  It is possible that I may have spoken with 
some of you in the far distant past, as I used to provide technical 
support for Blazie Engineering in the 1990's, along with writing and 
proofreading product documentation, recording tutorials, facilitating 
product presentations and training sessions and anything else they could 
get me to do. <grin>  I left the company in 1998, where I began working 
as an assistive tech trainer at abiliTech, where I worked with blind 
children and adults.  When that particular state-sponsored contract was 
cut, I began working at Associated Services for the blind in 2002, where 
I am thankfully still employed as their computer technology instructor.
I'm also the founder of a newly established computer users' group in the 
Philadelphia area, which is why I decided to join this list. Philly had 
such a group in the 1990's, but it seems to have disappeared and I've 
felt for some time that such a group needed to be reestablished.  It has 
the descriptive but somewhat awkward name of the Philadelphia Computer 
Users' group for the blind and Visually Impaired and we meet once a 
month, via a telephone conference, on the last Friday of each month from 
8:00-10:00 PM.
I wanted to join this group as a way of having another source for 
keeping up with assistive technology, as well as to network and learn 
more about other computer users' groups.  I also regularly post 
information to my own group regarding product announcements, updates, 
upgrades, etc. and would be willing to submit them to this list as well, 
assuming that doing so is permitted and appropriate.
I look forward to hearing more from all of you.

-- 
Feel free to visit my LinkedIn profile at
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-goldfield/12/929/573

         David Goldfield,
        Founder and Peer Coordinator

    Philadelphia Computer Users' Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired


    VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
Archived on the World Wide Web at
    http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html
    Signoff: [log in to unmask]
    Subscribe: [log in to unmask]