Last summer we launched our first website with about six weeks of concentrated effort from a dedicated group of volunteers – webmaster Joe LaCorte along with Kimberly Hahn, James Van Arsdale and Warren Schultheis. After that remarkable accomplishment, they’ve hardly taken a break since. Months were spent listening to what the arts community wanted in a collaborative web forum. We researched and built a more powerful site to facilitate collaboration between artists and arts organizations from all corners of our community.
We’ve added some important new features. For example you can now create a personal profile showing your work, your interests, what resources you have to share and how you’d like to help. You can contact other members and make connections. There’s a discussion forum, an events calendar, and a showcase to post galleries of your work, etc.
The tools are in place. This new website is a community canvas we all can paint on – dancers connecting with musicians, painters with photographers, actors with poets, filmmakers with sculptors – the combinations are endless. There’s a Help link that should get you though anything on the site – it’s right there on the right side of the menu.
Like any web forum . . . It’s what you make it. So come give it a go. If you’re already registered, complete your profile, put up pics, etc. If you’re new, make sure you register. Some of you who registered recently at the old site may have gotten lost in the transition so try to login and re-register if necessary.
Big props to the web committee for their dedication and hard work. The power of collaboration and volunteerism at its finest.
Let’s collaborate!
