Sunday, February 06, 2005

Welcome to the new blog!

Greetings everyone! This is a new "blog" created for the Lambuth University Choirs. For those of you unfamiliar with blogs (as I was until the Dan Rather memo scandal at CBS), the term is short for "weblog"--a place for people to publish their thoughts, research, insights, feelings, etc. on the Internet.

A choir-director friend of mine, Dr. Phil Copeland at UA-Birmingham, starting using a blog for his choirs at UAB to help pass along information to his singers and get feedback from them. He's found that it's been a real community-building outlet for his groups, and a place where everyone can contribute their ideas. In my philosophy of conducting/teaching/directing, building community--a sense of common understanding about what we do and why we do it--is vital to a successful choral program. I think we've done a lot together to do that, but new tools are always great. And you know me and technology.... :)

More later!
RCB

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