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Singing Group Websites

Virtual Creations is the world's leading provider of websites to singing groups.

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Mark Virtue, Virtual Creations' Chief Technologist, sings in Sydney Harmony, and also in the quartet Vocalicious.  Mark has used his in-depth knowledge of the workings of a singing group to customise the Virtual Creations virtualCMS website technology to the precise needs of a typical singing group.

Our Singing Group Clients

virtualCMS was used to create the websites for:

• Sydney Harmony (Men's chorus - Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• AAMBS (The Australian National Barbershop Association)
• SAI Region 16 (largest regional body in Sweet Adelines)
• Honeybees (SATB choir - Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• Cafe of the Gate of Salvation (SATB choir - Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir (SATB choir, Sydney, Australia)
• Capital City Chorus (Men's chorus - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
• North Metro Chorus (Ladies chorus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• The Melbournaires (Men's chorus - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
• Circular Keys (Ladies chorus - Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• The SeaChordsmen (Men's chorus - Seattle, Washington, USA)
• Garden City Chorus (Men's chorus - Augusta, Georgia, USA)
• The River City Clippers (Men's chorus - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
• Namaimo Tidesmen (Men's chorus - Nanaimo, BC, Canada)
• West Island Chorus (Ladies chorus - Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Barrie Huronia Soundwaves (Ladies chorus - Ontario, Canada)
• Bay City (Geelong) Conchords (Men's chorus - Geelong, VIC, Australia)
• West Island Chorus (Ladies chorus, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Vocalicious (SATB quartet, Sydney, Australia)
• Polaris (Men's quartet - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Virtual Creations also hosts the sites for:

• The Australian Barbershop Convention
• Men of Note (Men's chorus, Plano, Texas, USA)
• Southern Splendor Chorus (Men's chorus, Athens, Alabama, USA)
• Accolade (Ladies quartet, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• Play it Again (Men's quartet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
• Alchemy (SATB choir, Sydney Australia)

Overview of a Virtual Creations Singing Group Website

When inserted into a typical singing-group website, virtualCMS revolutionises the site, turning it from a simple "brochure" into a powerful communications tool for the members.

The key to this technology is that each website has a "Members-Only" area, where members can log in and get access to centralised information, including:

• An Event Calendar
• Sheet music and MP3 learning tracks for all Songs
• The entire Member Database
• A Bulletin Board of useful pieces of information the members want to share that don't fit anywhere else
• A Suggestion Box
• An Attendance Register
• Minutes of all committee meetings
• Records of which members have passed their assessments of which songs
• and much more

Much of this information can be made available on the "public" part of the website, including:

• Public events from the Events Calendar
• Sample recordings of the group singing their repertoire
• The office holders/committee members of the group
• The group's quartets
• Several photo albums
• A visitor's guestbook
• Links to related sites (other singing groups, arrangers, etc)
• Sponsors
• Merchandise

You might imagine that maintaining all of this is extremely time-consuming, not to mention highly technical. In fact, neither is true. virtualCMS reduces the workload of the group's secretary by up to 80%, and removes the need for a webmaster altogether! This is made possible by two key factors:

1. The maintenance of the entire website is extremely simple, intuitive and user friendly. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can maintain your own website!
2. Each group member can be assigned administration privileges over different parts of the website. This means that the membership manager can be responsible for the upkeep of the member database, the events manager can be responsible for the event calendar, the music team can be responsible for the learning songs database, etc.

To find out more....

• A full list of the features available in a virtualCMS singing group website can be found here.
• Mike Hailey (a recent secretary of Sydney Harmony) 0419 803339, and John Dam (recent secretary of the River City Clippers) 0418 747678 are religious converts to virtualCMS, and can explain the benefits of it to you if you call them.  Comments from Mike about the impact of virtualCMS on his chorus can be seen here.
• If you would like to learn more about virtualCMS and how it can be applied to your own website, please contact us