Press Release January 10, 2005, 2005
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 noconnell@tabinc.org (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
Tel: (212) 683-4950
E-mail: MemberServices@eSightCareers.net
Online community:
www.eSight.org
Blogs:
www.tabinc.org/jsn/
www.tabinc.org/sim/
www.tabinc.org/blog/