Hi Everyone!!!
It was fantastic to see so many of you in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and great to meet those of you I hadn't met yet. Thank you so much for attending the user group breakfast on Thursday morning!!! We had about 20 members show up and I got to talk with most of you. We came up with some great ways to get together as a group back home, here, in the DFW area.
First, I heard from several of you that you'd like to meet socially in addition to getting together for knowledge sharing. With that in mind, I'm going to try and schedule a couple of Happy Hours in addition to the quarterly Brown Bag Lunches. Does anyone have any other ideas of ways that you'd like to gather in order to get to know one another and share Tessitura knowledge? If so, please respond to this post.
In addition, with Tessitura v12 on the horizon, I'd like get together to share ideas on how we plan to use v12. I know from experience that insight from outside of our own organizations is very helpful and thought provoking. If anyone would be interested in a training session or a show and tell type of session, please respond to this thread and let me know.
Now....for the BIG news!!!!! We came up with a great idea while in San Francisco....a 1 day Mini-Conference!! This idea came from a couple of organizations in the group (Charles W. Eisemann Center and Performing Arts Forth Worth). The concept is to have several sessions on specific topics during one day, hosted by one of the organizations in the group (Eisemann Center has volunteered for our first Mini-Conference). We are still working on the entire concept. My initial thoughts are to have 2 concurrent sessions during each time slot so we can cover all areas of Tessitura and provide the opportunity for all departments to participate. The sessions will be presented by users, just like at TLCC, and may be training, open discussions or presentations. I'd love to hear from anyone who is interested in helping with this, whether it's in the planning or being a "presenter" or just sharing session topic ideas. As I said, we are still in the concept stage, but I'd really love to pick a date and start the planning process. Please email me at teresa.dean@attpac.org with any ideas, suggestions, thoughts or just confirmation that you'd like to help out. Once I have some feedback, we'll start the actual planning of our DFW Mini-Conference!!!
I hope everyone has a fantastic week and I can't wait to start receiving feedback from you all!!
Teresa
Hi guys: Thanks for the enthusiasm. If it fits with any of the possible plans to have any sessions with our team members perhaps piped in via a webinar link or other link for a v12, web, or other topic, we have done that before and our team can assist in the right people. So, keep that in mind and Tami Fox from our team, Services and Community Relations Specialist, will help coordinate. If I am in town, will try to come by and glad to answer questions- (but depends on when it will be and please do not plan anything around me. I am not in Dallas almost more than I am in Dallas) and Laura likely would also if she is around. We will stay out of the way for any organizing, but wanted to throw that out there. We have done that for UK and Australia conferences and it worked out quite well.
Again. Glad to see the energy around usage and knowledge sharing. We are very excited about v12 and everything else going on.
Regards,
Jack
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I’d be happy to participate in activities including a mini-conference.
That's awesome news John....stayed tuned for more information!!!
Thank you Jack....we will definitely keep all that in mind as we start planning and organizing!!!