Job Insights Extra: Adjustment to Blindness – Meet Rob Hobson: College Prep and Success All in One. Transcript Provided

Job Insights Extra: Adjustment to Blindness - Meet Rob Hobson: College Prep and Success All in One. Transcript Provided Job Insights Extra brings you Rob Hobson, Cordinator for Professional Development and College prep at Blindness Learning In New Dimensions, Inc. Best known as Blind, Inc. located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rob tells his story how he overcame the challenges that nearly defeated him when entering his Masters program. He made a...

Add That Attachment from Anywhere! A Blog Post By Lucie

Add That Attachment from Anywhere! By Lucie The Problem Are you ever out and about and someone needs a file ASAP from you? Or perhaps, you forgot to e-mail that file to your college group. In those ancient days, this was a real problem. It required you to be at your desktop computer. Well not anymore thankfully. You can do it from practically anywhere these days. Okay, I am unsure if it can be done from the moon. What You Will need? Well, you...

FCB 2018: A Tour Around The Convention’s Exhibitors and More!

Again this year, blind Abilities was present at the Florida Council for the Blind Annual Convention, FCB 2018. Join Pete Lane as he grabs some interviews with vendors and participants at the convention. The vendors include: * Emerald Coast Vision Aids, located in Pensacola, Florida. Mike Hage speaks about his products: a variety of low vision and blindness devices and equipment available through numerous well-known national vendors, You can...

Marana Vradenberg: Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Nutrition Specialist, diabetic, Working with Vets and JuJitsu, Too.

Marana Vradenberg is a certified personal fitness trainer and a nutrition specialist working on bringing her expertise to Veterans and others who are overcoming life changing situations. Marana has found that her journey through diabetes and blindness gives her what it takes to demonstrate and assist others in overcoming adversity. She lost her sight and nearly lost everything to diabetes and has accepted the challenges by asserting herself into...

Job Insights #4: Apps With Productivity in Mind for Education and in the Workplace. Transcript Provided

Job Insights #4: Apps With Productivity in Mind for Education and in the Workplace. Transcript Provided Welcome to the 4th episode of Job Insights with Serina Gilbert and Jef Thompson. We focus on Employment, Careers, enhancing opportunities and bringing you the latest innovations from across the Vocational Rehabilitation field to ensure your choices lead you down the career pathway that you want and succeed in gainful employment. From getting...

Are You Ripping Me Off? Keeping Your Money Series, A Blog Post By Lucie

Are You Ripping Me Off? Keeping Your Money Series By Lucie Stores go to great lengths to get you to come in and spend your money. Although being a smart consumer, being able to spot a good deal is key. Stores sometimes will show things on sale that are not really on sale. They will place yellow tags on the shelves and show a cheap sale price. However, sometimes this price is the regular price. They are hoping you will not notice. The best way to...

Job Insights Extra #3: College Advice from Michael Hingson, Best Selling Author, Advocate and Inspirational Speaker. Transcript Provided

Job Insights Extra #3: College Advice from Michael Hingson, Best Selling Author, Advocate and Inspirational Speaker. Transcript Provided Welcome to Job Insights Extra, part of the Job Insights Podcast with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson, a podcast focused on the world of employment, career pathways and gainful and meaningful employment. The Job Insights Extra podcasts are success stories, interviews and demos that enhance the experience of...

ThatBlindTechShow 15: Get Your Skills On! Cool Down Tech, Zoom Robots Making Pizza Amazon in Best Buy? And Groping the Ford Windshield… What the?

In episode 15 of That Blind Tech Show Allison Hartley, Bryan Fischler and Jeff Thompson announce the release of the Blind Abilities Alexa Skill, the Android version of the Blind Abilities App, GE’s announcement of air conditioners controlled by your home assistant devices, Zoom Pizza’s made by Robots, Amazon and Best Buy Hooking up without the use of the upcoming Facebook Hookup site and how to get a charge out of a rubber case for your...

Boston Marathon? Why Not? Rachel Hastings Is Back to Guide Us Through Her Boston Marathon Success

Rachel Hastings is back from the Boston Marathon and is excited to share her success. Her first podcast on Blind Abilities was equally exciting as she talked about her transition from high school to college and the workplace and she did mention that she was getting into running more and more. Well, if the Boston Marathon isn’t more then I don’t know what is. Join Rachel on this well paced podcast as she goes through the marathon and all the...

Our Journey Through Assistive Tech and Making Old Tech New Again. Meet Derek Daniel

Blind Abilities presents a discussion on the subject of assistive technology: not only what we are seeing and using now in 2018, but what we encountered throughout our sight-loss journeys. Jeff and Pete are joined by Derek Daniel, host of his own podcast entitled: Life After sight Loss, and his own YouTube channel by the same name. They discuss the technology they encountered early-on, such as Pete using magnifying glasses and lenses during the...