This was taken at the third (?) meeting of the new Professionals with Disabilities meeting in Chicago on Wednesday night. As part of my involvement in my company's nAblement business unit (we find jobs for Information Technology professionals who happen to have a disability), I was invited to come and speak to the group about building online communities.The Professionals with Disabilities Special Interest Group, now named ITKAN (IT Knowledge Abilities Network) is a new organization supported by the Illinois I.T. Association. They meet once a month and are just now getting their group off the ground. As part of my involvement, I volunteered to help them build out their as-yet private SharePoint site. And because of my experience with fostering online communities through my game design experience while working with Skotos Tech, I had some thoughts about directions in which they might go and tools they might use.
What an incredibly welcoming and passionate community they were to address. I look forward to further involvement with them and am sure they will do great things. At the end of the night, I had an amazing conversation with Dan, who has some brilliant ideas about assistive technologies available for the blind. He provided me with several links to existing products. I came across a few others myself and can't wait to speak with him again.
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