One of the great things about working with smart people is that you get dragged along into things that you probably wouldn't have done by yourself.

 

Long ago the Choralist Advisory Group began holding meetings online via email and when ChoralNet incorporated the Board of Directors continued that practice to become one of the first corporations in the U.S. to hold its board meetings asynchronously over the internet.  Now, in its new iteration as the ChoralNet Committee of the American Choral Directors Association, we have accomplished another first - at least for us.

 

We just completed a committee meeting completely over smartphones.  We drafted and approved a policy for ChoralNet Communities using texting, email, and Google documents. Did you know that the U.S. government just authorized doubling the amount of bandwidth available for wireless networking?  Pulling out my crystal ball, I predict that a) as computing devices grow ever more handy (the European term for mobile phones, BTW)  with Ipads, smartphones, Archos tablets, and the like and b) mobile access gets ever better; the line between single function devices will continue to disappear and we'll be able to carry on what used to happen only in certain places anywhere we wish.The Luddites may scream, "But I don't want to be that accessible!"  Perhaps not, but the problem is not technology - it's how you use it.

When you wish to speak with a co-worker, do you a) send an email, b) use the phone, or c) walk down the hall to their office?