New Communication Tool Unveiled for American Choral Directors Association

On June 29, ChoralNet Communities will be unveiled in Chicago at the Leadership Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. A "Community" will combine the many features of various online communication and networking activities that are currently in use. Want a blog? It is there. A forum? It is also there. A website? It is there, too, complete with multi-level page creation. Want an online library for file sharing? It will be there. Even better, as part of ACDA ChoralNet, any community will be tied into the vast archives of past discussions and links to resources that reside in ChoralNet and ACDA's website, and any of these resources can be accessed and linked at will.

This development is the brainchild of Jim Feiszli, who has directed the work of ChoralNet since its inception. Feiszli has been working closely with ACDA Technology Committee Chair Philip Copeland and ACDA Executive Director Tim Sharp in the development and evolution of this new system of communication and professional networking.
ChoralNet has recently merged with the American Choral Directors Association, and as of July 1, 2010, ChoralNet, Inc. will cease operations as it becomes ACDA ChoralNet.

According to Feiszli, "We believe that what ACDA ChoralNet provides is an answer to the needs of a
large and rapidly changing organization like ACDA. Communities, with its
Facebook-like features, will allow State Chapters, Division Chapters, Repertoire and Standards areas, and other subsets of
the entire choral community to create communications that are in tune with what the next
decade will bring."