http://www.widmeyer.com Fiercely Independent Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/publishers-help-returning-college-students-learn-and-save/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=publishers-help-returning-college-students-learn-and-save http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/publishers-help-returning-college-students-learn-and-save/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:33:43 +0000 Kabakoff Sara http://www.widmeyer.com/?p=1945 The Association of American Publishers is providing new ways for college students to learn and save money on their course materials.  As the Spring semester begins on college campuses this month, Widmeyer is helping the publishers highlight these cost savings and learning opportunities in the media, with coverage in more than 200 outlets, including Reuters, [...]]]> The Association of American Publishers is providing new ways for college students to learn and save money on their course materials.  As the Spring semester begins on college campuses this month, Widmeyer is helping the publishers highlight these cost savings and learning opportunities in the media, with coverage in more than 200 outlets, including Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch and Washington Business Journal.  

]]> http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/publishers-help-returning-college-students-learn-and-save/feed/ 0 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/widmeyer-helps-aap-raise-awareness-of-accesstext/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=widmeyer-helps-aap-raise-awareness-of-accesstext http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/widmeyer-helps-aap-raise-awareness-of-accesstext/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:23:54 +0000 Luetkemeyer Jim http://www.widmeyer.com/?p=1459 Widmeyer facilitated a meeting between the Association of American Publishers and the Atlanta Journal Constitution to highlight the launch of the AccessText Network, which helps students with disabilities get the textbook materials they need for college.  The meeting included a demonstration of the latest laptop screen-reading technology being utilized by students with disabilities.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured the AccessText network in its recent coverage.

]]> http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/widmeyer-helps-aap-raise-awareness-of-accesstext/feed/ 0 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/college-students-with-print-related-disabilities-have-helpful-new-tool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=college-students-with-print-related-disabilities-have-helpful-new-tool http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/college-students-with-print-related-disabilities-have-helpful-new-tool/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:29:44 +0000 Maffei Gina http://www.widmeyer.com/?p=972 AccessText Network, a new online service for college students with print-related disabilities, was the focus of an Inside Higher Education article.  Widmeyer helped to secure this story for the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which created AccessText.  Bruce Hildebrand, Executive Director for Higher Education of the Association of American Publishers, was interviewed on the benefits of the new system for disabled students and how AAP is a driving force behind this new technology.

]]> http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/college-students-with-print-related-disabilities-have-helpful-new-tool/feed/ 0 http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/association-of-american-publishers-featured-in-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=association-of-american-publishers-featured-in-the-chronicle-of-higher-education http://www.widmeyer.com/posts/association-of-american-publishers-featured-in-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:34:51 +0000 Maffei Gina http://174.143.255.134/?p=887 Widmeyer’s public affairs practice has been working on behalf of the Association of American Publishers to raise awareness of the AccessText Network – a new national online database that will make it easier and quicker for students with print-related disabilities to get the textbooks they need for their college courses.  Widmeyer’s efforts resulted in an impressive piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education quoting an AAP source on the benefits of the new system for disabled students.

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