CoSIDA Community is here! Join in Today, Sharing your Ideas and Experiences with Fellow CoSIDA Members

CoSIDA Community is here! Join in Today, Sharing your Ideas and Experiences with Fellow CoSIDA Members

CoSIDA Community is live online for you to share your ideas and experiences with your fellow CoSIDA members. 
 
A joint venture of CoSIDA and College Fanz™ Sports Network,the new CoSIDA Community further enhances CoSIDA’s member benefits and its vital role as a true professional membership organization. 
 
One requirement for CoSIDA Community is the imperative that CoSIDA membership communications online are conducted in a secure environment. CoSIDA Community is designed as a one-stop resource for all CoSIDA online activity, with a goal of streamlining communications such as nomination forms and biographical profiles, dramatically reducing the amount of e-mail in your inbox (especially if you are a member of a CoSIDA committee). 
 
It’s not intended to replace the public CoSIDA web site. In fact, this tremendous new “gated community” enhances your CoSIDA membership benefits with compelling content and timely information added daily by you and your colleagues.   CoSIDA members can create a discussion thread, write an article, and share your thoughts with your peers in CoSIDA’s own “social network.” 
 
In addition, CoSIDA Community provides a valuable set of tools for those who are new to the business as well as those who have made sports information a career. 


College Fanz worked in partnership with CoSIDA to develop CoSIDA Community over the past four months in an engaging collaboration with a number of your colleagues and fellow CoSIDA members representing a diverse group of the membership. All of the feedback from the focus groups was incorporated for your benefit.  
 
This exciting and valuable web site is only available to CoSIDA members, and provides a secure, password-protected environment in which all of CoSIDA can continue dialogue and discussions above and beyond our annual CoSIDA Convention. 
 
It opens up a new world of social and professional networking and ongoing dialogue that’s just for CoSIDA members.
 
CoSIDA Community has a wealth of tools and features, including discussion threads on a variety of topics, a growing CoSIDA Document Repository and an archive of pertinent articles. There are also blogs, polls and articles written by members on various issues that affect each member personally and professionally.
 
With the support of Nick Joos (2008-2009 CoSIDA President), John Humenik (CoSIDA Executive Director) and Jamie Joss (CoSIDA Director of Online Services), College Fanz has developed what one of our early adopters described as “the most professional web community I’ve ever seen.”
 
We invite you to start visiting the CoSIDA Community immediately, and see how you can start participating and letting your voice be heard. 
 
Simply click here and register on College Fanz and the CoSIDA Community utilizing your existing CoSIDA user name and password. 
 
If you had previously opened your own Virtual Pressbox on College Fanz, we ask you to continue using the user name and password that you created at that time, for quick and easy access.

As always, all our efforts at College Fanz are part of our ongoing commitment to CoSIDA, and our goal of simplifying an SID’s workload while enhancing each school’s online exposure and opportunities. We invite your feedback directly through our web site or you can call 888-845-6316 and ask for Jim DeLorenzo.
 
And be sure to check out our other articles recently published on the CoSIDA web site: