The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there
is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set
by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull
wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation
with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow
no annual rings.
Clifton Fadiman
Welcome to a new year! Changes abound on the AMIS web site! The
first of the changes are these four buttons found on the homepage:
amis-online.org
Subscribe to
Latest News
Clicking on that link sends a message to your computer whereby you
subscribe to the AMIS RSS feed. The AMIS news feed was created on 2009. Every
change is the website gets announced in the feed. You have to set up on your
local computer - Google Reader, Outlook or Mixtab to take advantage of it. Think
of it - any change in the web site, you will be notified automatically! There
is a link at the end of it for “More reading...” that links to the web site for
further information. An example is located on the right hand side of the page under the heading "AMIS Latest News Feed". "HeinSite" has a news feed as well as many others on the web.
Subscribe to the
AMIS Calendar
Clicking on the link will make your calendar sync with the AMIS
calendar. Once again, you need an application like iCal, Calendar, or Outlook
that’s local to you computer that displays calendars. On the latest operating
system for the Mac “Mountain Lion”, you can set reminders that pop up on your desktop
for events.
AMIS Alumni Group
on Facebook
AMIS Music
Educators Group on Facebook
AMIS can be found on Facebook! Like it or not, 2.0 is the social web
and an important part of AMIS is to
advance the education of young people and their teachers in global issues and
cultural diversity through the performance and study of music. What a fantastic
way to to supercharge this process.
More changes are in store for the AMIS web site. Like Topsy, the web
site has “growed and growed”. A team of designers is as we speak redesigning
the web site to have a new look and feel and a more integrated look. Tim
Germann, Georgia Bassett, Dick Bassett and I met over the summer with the web
designers to give the essence of AMIS. We’re all excited to see what the
designers come up with.
So Happy New Year! Hold on to you hats! Once again I leave you with
the immortal words of Robert Zimmerman, “For the times, they are a-changin’”.
