Amy Cohen Efron shares her personal experience about voting in Georgia. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/JblEB7yseb8" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] Georgia has advanced voting process which allows people to vote one week before the election. There were long lines (I mean, LONG!) at voting places and I decided to be brave and stick it out last Wednesday night. When I was standing on […]
Read More Amy Cohen Efron expresses her feelings after watching ABC’s Supernanny show with Jo Frost and the Baulisch Family in Nebraska. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/A4PtjCz5vF8" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] This show is extremely tasteful, and it emphasizes a very positive image of American Sign Language! Jo Frost said American Sign Language (A.S.L.) at least over 20 times throughout the show, and I am […]
Read More Amy Cohen Efron shares her surprising discovery of one of the best examples in ASL marketing. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/GvnP8Qu9PuQ" width="320" height="240" wmode="transparent" /] Amy demonstrates a promotional give-away, the pack-of-6 SONIC® Wacky Pack® Kids’ Meal toy that was distributed through SONIC® Drive-In Restaurants in 2006. You may wonder what is SONIC®? SONIC® Drive-In Restaurants, which is the nation’s largest drive-in chain […]
Read More Amy Cohen Efron shares her pet peeve about one most common used English word in our conversation. It was posted on DeafVideo.TV and that video generated a high number of video comments. I thought that I’d like to share that on my blog. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/VSXw4jNrv1c" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] 3:18 minutes long. What is your pet peeve? Best, Amy Cohen […]
Read More Hello everyone! Whew, I just recuperated from the all-day event at DeafNation Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve witnessed something really amazing. A very large number of deaf people had lined up for a couple of hours to purchase the videophone, Viable’s VPAD. Viable is the only deaf-owned company which made THE big leap to sell their mobile videophones. Unfortunately, there […]
Read More Hello everyone! I need to share this experience with you. Today, approximately 3pm EST, Tayler Mayer IM’ed me and we had our usual “DeafRead” business chat. That’s my job as an Human Editor. Somehow during our IM conversation, Tayler introduced me a new experimental program designed by Yahoo, and it is called, Y! Live Chat. I joined the chat room […]
Read More Remember my previous blog, “Time is of the Essence! Market ASL Now!” emphasizing the importance about marketing American Sign Language to the mass audience? I am presenting this exciting collection of old commercials in ASL on my blog! First of all, why should I bother about this? Allow me to explain about the value of advertising… According to the Wikipedia: […]
Read More Amy Cohen Efron recognizes how PepsiCo/EnAble’s commercial, “Bob’s House” have a profound impact on Deaf and Hearing people in past week. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/9R0uPq8FFC8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] The true winners are PepsiCo/EnAble and National Association of the Deaf (NAD), for establishing successful collaboration relationship to produce this awesome commercial! Imagine without NAD’s input, will this commercial ever happen? Perhaps not. […]
Read More Yahoooo! Watch Amy Cohen Efron’s reaction after seeing the ‘sneak preview’ of the commercial done by PepsiCo/EnAble for the Super Bowl! [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rNeArj-tjMg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] PepsiCo’s workforce, EnAble created an unique and hilarious commercial specifically for the Super Bowl on February 3, 2008 and I watched this commercial featured at YouTube once it was released and announced via […]
Read More James LeVoy Sorenson, World-Renowned Medical Device Inventor, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Dies at 86. James LeVoy Sorenson left behind a profound professional and personal legacy, the inventions and companies that Mr. Sorenson created have had a significant and lasting impact on the development of numerous medical treatments and procedures. How does this person’s legacy has to do with the Deaf Community? […]
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