In the fall of 2003, the Board of Directors of NSAA came up with the idea of having a website in order to increase visibility of the organization and to enhance communication for its members. Investigations were made by various members and at the Sangerfest 2004 meeting, a prototype was presented to the Board for their review. At the Fall, 2004 Board meeting, it was decided to move ahead with the website project and bids were solicited. HelpTML of Madison, WI, was selected to design the website and conduct initial training for a webmaster.

The website has several components including a brief description about NSAA, a list of officers, a brief description about each member organization, Sangerfest updates, NSAA tour information, a place for translation of words for non-English songs, a calendar of concerts and special events, and an electronic version of the Sanger Hilsen,

The brief description about each member organization includes information about rehearsal times, a roster of officers, and a contact person and telephone number. Each organization can develop their own website underneath the NSAA host site (for a fee), or if any member organization has a separate site developed, it can be linked to the NSAA site. Information included in this part of the website was taken from the latest version of the Sanger Hilsen. Corrections to the information online should be sent to admin@nsaaonline.org.

The calendar can be used to post concerts and special events held in various locations that would be of interest to NSAA members. Dates of future Sangerfests and tours of organizations will also be posted on this calendar. Information to be placed on the calendar can be submitted to the webmaster at admin@nsaaonline.org.

Although the Sanger-Hilsen will continue to be published in paper format, an electronic version will be available online. Headlines will be listed, but links to the full text of each article will also be available.

Check out the new website at http://www.nsaaonline.org. >