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April Meetup - Recap

Michael Dorsey — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:16:00 GMT

Greetings, everyone!

Thank you so much for coming to the meetup last week, and a very special thank you to [mention:3ec665bf6e934194bbe3d1175fb0602a:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] and [mention:4442dc2de6d2422b93ffa1bbd100fed3:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] for their excellent presentations on Plans in Tessitura. I know that I learned a lot and I’m sure that I’m not the only one. I hope that you saw value in what was shared, and that you’re able to implement positive changes around the use of Plans for your organizations.

Attached to this post are the documents that were shared during the meeting:

Taunja’s amazing documentation on Plans for PBS-NC
Changing time zone settings in your Tessitura.com profile

We’re working on a poll to get an idea of what we want to talk about at our next meetup in July. Stay tuned.

Thanks again, and have a great week!

Michael & Tiffany

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Meetup #2 Reminder

Michael Dorsey — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:42:21 GMT

Hello all!

Our second meetup is on Thursday, April 4^th, and our topic for discussion will be Plans in Tessitura. We're going to have two presentations, including one led by a member of the Tessitura Network team. Those who are eager to learn more about effective use of Plans will not want to miss this!

Here’s what we have lined up for the hour:

Introduction/housekeeping (5-10 minutes, as people enter the meeting room)
Plans in Tessitura (20-25 minutes)
- Presentation by Kari Reenan, Associate Consultant, Business Operations at Tessitura Network
Member presentation (5-10 minutes)
- Presentation by Taunja Ingram, Gift Processing and Prospect Manager at PBS North Carolina
Question/Discussion + Wrap-up (10-15 minutes)

The Teams meeting link is on the event page, and I will also put it in the comments there shortly before we begin on Thursday.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

Michael & Tiffany

Carolinas Tessitura Community April Meetup

Michael Dorsey — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:27:53 GMT

Greetings, Carolinians! A warm welcome to all new members!

Spring is in the process of springing, and—equally exciting—we are rapidly approaching our next scheduled meetup.

Tiffany and I are working on hammering out the exact agenda, but the theme will be Plans. We will have a representative from Tessitura as well as a member presentation, with an opportunity to discuss and ask questions.

If this topic is of interest, be sure to register for meetup #2 on April 4th. We will provide more information as we get closer to the date. In the meantime, feel free to reach out with any questions or just to chat.

Look forward to gathering again!

Michael & Tiffany

Thank you and follow up from Meeting #1

Tiffany Elliott — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:33:10 GMT

Dear Tessitura Carolina Community Members,

Thank you all for attending our first member meeting last week! It was great to meet you all and I look forward to learning more about each of you this year! Michael and I think we have a lot of great ideas for future session topics moving forward this year, so thank you to everyone who participated.

As a reminder, we have 3 more sessions planned this year for the large group:

April 4^th at 1 PM ET

July 11^th at 1 PM ET

October 3^rd at 1 PM ET

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Michael and I both noticed there was strong interest in learning more about how organizations are utilizing Plans, so if anyone wants to present on how your organization uses Plans at the April session, please let me or Michael know.

Otherwise, if you have another presentation idea or something you would like to share with the group, please feel free to contact us!

Thanks and we’ll see you in April!

Tiffany and Michael

RE: Thank you and follow up from Meeting #1

Michael Dorsey — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:56:09 GMT

I second that, Tiffany Elliott! Thank you all for coming to the first meetup. It was great getting to meet everyone. I'm looking forward to the next one!

Today's Meetup

Michael Dorsey — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:09:46 GMT

Good morning!

In a few hours, we'll have our first meetup of the Carolinas Tessitura Community. I'm very excited to get to meet everyone and learn more about your organizations and your experience with Tessitura.

A few things to know before we start today:

Use this link to access the meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MWNmMGQ3MWYtMjIwOS00YjliLTg2ZGUtMzBlODQ4YTI5ZTU0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2276e1908f-c6b9-436d-98cc-54faa694750c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223f731a76-2aa4-40ee-b41b-d6fd6dbfbe75%22%7d
We are using the Lean Coffee Table platform. Use this link to access the agenda in LCT: https://www.leancoffeetable.com/TaskBoard/View/5232df98-2bfb-4c80-8be2-d25bcdd4f985?guest=true
LCT does not integrate with Microsoft Teams, so you'll have to open both links to be in the meeting and submit topics to the agenda.
We will try to do introductions, but we've had a lot of RSVPs, so we'll need to move fast. Be prepared to do the following:
- Name
- Organization
- Favorite holiday moment/memory/gift OR 2024 resolution

Please let me know if you have any questions before we meet today. Otherwise, I'll see you all at 1 pm EST!

Michael

Format for Meetup #1 - January 11, 2024

Michael Dorsey — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:52:22 GMT

Hello everyone!

We've settled on a format for our first meetup. Even though it was the least popular format per the survey, we've decided to start with Lean Coffee. The intention is to have some time to socialize and connect, discussing topics that are important to us. The idea is that from this meetup we'll identify themes that will inform the rest of the meetups for the year. We can then organize guest speakers, presentations, and trainings around these themes. Come to this meeting prepared to do a brief introduction of yourself. Once we get through intros, we'll get into the topics that you want to talk about.

Here's a rough outline of how we'll spend the hour:

Intros (5-10 minutes)
Topics (35-40 minutes)
Wrap-up (10-15 minutes)

I'll post necessary material for accessing the Lean Coffee in the comments section for the meetup. As always, contact me or Tiffany if you have any questions.

Thanks, and have a great holiday season!

Michael

Happy Holidays to the Carolinas!

Tiffany Elliott — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:09:06 GMT

Hi Everyone!

Before things get too busy, I wanted to send a note wishing you all a Happy Holiday!

I look forward to seeing everyone in 2024 at our meeting on January 11!

Thanks!

Tiffany

RE: Happy Holidays to the Carolinas!

Tiffany Elliott — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:19:19 GMT

Great! Welcome to NC! I'm at PBS North Carolina! Feel free to register and join us! (33) Carolinas Tessitura Community Group Meeting - Events - Carolinas Tessitura Community - Tessitura Network

RE: Happy Holidays to the Carolinas!

Neha Joshi — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:13:42 GMT

I would love join this meetup . I have moved here in NC. Happy Holidays!

RE: Happy Holidays to the Carolinas!

Michael Dorsey — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:12:19 GMT

Cheers to that, Tiffany Elliott! Happy holidays to all. I hope you enjoy a restful and restorative holiday break. More to come soon about our January 11 meeting agenda. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Carolinas Group Meetup Schedule for 2024

Michael Dorsey — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:30:31 GMT

Hello, all!

As you may have noticed, Tiffany and I established a quarterly community meetup schedule for 2024, kicking off with our first meetup on Thursday, January 11^th.

Here’s the full schedule (times are Eastern time zone):

We made this schedule based on your feedback from the survey (thank you for participating).

We got great suggestions for topics, but admittedly, I should’ve set this question up as a multi-select with an “other” option—there was a great variance in the topics suggested across the 3 questions. I took the suggestions and classified them as best I could to figure out what people wanted to talk about the most.

The “Other” slice (the biggest one) represents topics suggested that fell just outside of what I thought of as otherwise easily classifiable areas of Tessitura. Though it was the format that got the fewest number of votes, I think this would be a good argument for using Lean Coffee Table for at least one of our scheduled meetups. This way, everyone will get the opportunity to pose questions and discuss topics that are important to them with the group. Other than that, General Q&A, Show & Tell, and Presentations/Trainings are the formats we’ll stick to for our meetups.

It looks like a lot of folks in this group would be interested in an in-person meetup! While this could be challenging with our group representing two states, we will put our heads together and see if we can figure out a good location, date, and time that would work for those who want to participate.

Finally, if you’ve expressed interest in presenting and/or helping us plan meetups, please reach out to me or Tiffany (or both) with the topic for your presentation or to get invited to our planning meetings. We would be very grateful to have your help!

We will roll out more information about the topic and format of the first meeting as soon as possible. Please reach out to us if you have any questions in the meantime or reply to this post with your thoughts. Looking forward to meeting everyone in January!

Thanks,

Michael & Tiffany

P.S. If you’re interested in seeing results of any other questions from the survey, let me know.

Idea Board Rallying Cry

Michael Dorsey — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:29:11 GMT

Greetings, Carolinians!

I write to you requesting your help. I've just submitted an idea that I would love to see get votes and support. We've recently upgraded to v16, and we've discovered that the donation form now shows up on the payment page if you have a membership in cart. This might be fine for Transactional memberships, but ours are Philanthropic, and we don't want to ask people to contribute for member benefits, only to be asked again at checkout for another donation. Prior to the upgrade, this wasn't a problem. If you have the money for the membership going On Account, the form doesn't show up, but we would love to be able to have the money for a membership flow directly into the fund and remove the manual step of turning that On Account money into memberships. As soon as you assign a fund in LTR_TNEW_CONTRIB_TYPE, the donation form shows up.

It would be great if there was an additional control to turn the donation form off depending upon the contribution type, or the type of membership, or some other toggle. Your support of this idea would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully there can be more control over this feature before more organizations in our region start to move to v16.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Michael

EDIT: Someone asked how to upvote and I realized that the link to the idea was well hidden in my post. Here's the link in case you want to add your support:

https://community.tessituranetwork.com/ideas/i/ideas/make-the-donation-form-controllable-based-on-cart-contents-specifically-for-philanthropic-memberships

Community Group Survey

Michael Dorsey — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:39:53 GMT

Hello, Carolinians!

We’re actively planning our first community meetup for this new iteration of the regional group. To get an idea of how we can provide the most value, we’ve put together a short survey. Please fill this out at your earliest convenience to help us understand your availability and what you hope to get out of participation. The survey will be open until 10/27.

Click here to fill out the survey.

Looking forward to meeting you all soon. Thanks!

Michael

RE: Community Group Survey

Michael Dorsey — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:33:41 GMT

Just a reminder that our survey will close tomorrow at 5 pm EDT. We've had a great response so far. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to participate! Tiffany and I will use the response data to inform our community group meetup schedule, format, and topics. Hopefully we'll have our first meetup scheduled very soon.

Thanks all!

Michael

RE: Welcome and Introductions!

Michael Dorsey — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:35:04 GMT

Likewise, Erin Murillas! I'm excited to be a part of the evolution of this already great group.

Welcome and Introductions!

Tiffany Elliott — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:35:09 GMT

Welcome to the new combined Carolina's Tessitura Community Group!

As Co-Chairs of the Caroina's Tessitura Community Group, Michael Dorsey and I would like to introduce ourselves.

My name is Tiffany Elliott (she/her), and I am the Tessitura Database and Operations Administrator for PBS North Carolina and I work remotely from my home in Foxborough, MA which is about 25 miles outside of Boston. I'm originally from Memphis, TN and Cincinnati, Ohio but my career in the arts did not begin until I moved to Boston in 2005 to be an opera singer. That did not quite work out, as we can see, but my utilization of Tessitura began in the Box Office at the Celebrity Series of Boston and I have been using Tessitura CRM in some capacity since 2008. I was a Business Analyst who specialized in Tessitura Implementations at JCA for a year before giving birth to my twin girls, Wendy and Abby in 2017. The girls are now 6 years old and have started kindergarten which means the fun officially begins now, amiright? I visit my office at the PBS station in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina a couple of times a year and in my spare time, I voluteer as a board member at my local community theater and cultural council trying to bring arts and culture to our little town that is the home of the New England Patriots.

Michael has provided me with an introduction to share with you.

Greetings, Carolinians! My name is Michael Dorsey (he/him), and I am the CRM Systems Manager for Spoleto Festival USA—a 17-day performing arts festival that takes place across downtown Charleston, SC, every year from late May to early June. My journey in the Tessitura-sphere began in early 2018, when I was hired as the CRM Specialist at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO. There, I was tasked with leading the implementation of Tessitura and TNEW on the museum side. Amazingly, I did not run away screaming, nor did I curl up under my desk, rocking back and forth, babbling nonsense (though I did come close to that). A big reason for that was this community. I’ve always found value in the Tessitura community groups in terms of professional development, and I’ve wanted to find a way to add to that value. I’m excited to be a part of the expansion of this already well-established, well-led group. I’m currently serving Spoleto remotely from Plymouth, MN, but my wife, fur-baby, and I will be relocating to the Charleston area this fall. If any of you have recommendations for must-see attractions or must-eat cuisine, let me know! Looking forward to connecting with you!

We are so pleased to join together the North and South Carolina's into a combined user community and we hope that this enables us to be more active and engaged. I'm grateful for Michael's volunteering to be a co-chair. He and I will be having regular meetings to come up with some ideas on how to start creating regular virtual meetups or discussions. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or want to be involved. Feel free to introuce yourself as well on this page - we'd love to get you know you better!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to connecting with all of you!

thanks,

Tiffany and Michael

RE: Welcome and Introductions!

Erin Murillas — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:27:18 GMT

Thanks Tiffany! Nice to meet you, Michael! Looking forward to the bigger bolder Both Carolinas group!

RE: Welcome and Introductions!

Michael Dorsey — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:10:47 GMT

Thanks Tiffany Elliott!

RE: Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Lindsey Whitfield — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:48:01 GMT

I'm for it, but I'm with the Peace Center and joined the NC group because there wasn't a group for SC 😂

Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Tiffany Elliott — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:46:43 GMT

Good afternoon North Carolina Tesstiura Community Members!

I hope you all had a fantastic summer and for those of you who attended TLCC, had a fantastic conference and trip!

An idea has been proposed that I wanted to send along to the rest of our group about possibly combining the South Carolina and North Carolina Tessitura Community User Groups.

There are only 3 member organizations in South Carolina: Spoleto Festival USA, South Carolina's Children's Theatre, and Peace Center. I'd love to hear your thoughts about asking them to join our group as a 'Carolina's' user group. I welcome the additional engagement and look forward to hopefully setting up some more regular community activities with our new collegues. The more, the merrier!

I'm meeting with Michael Dorsey with Spoleto Festival next week about this topic and would love to share with him how our group feels about this idea. Likewise, if anyone wants to join on our call, let me know and I'll forward along the invite.

Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you all soon!

Tiffany Elliott

PBS North Carolina

North Carolina Tessitura Community Chair

RE: Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Michael Dorsey — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:48:59 GMT

Hi everyone,

Thank you for supporting this idea. I've always found the regional community groups to be helpful, and it will be nice to find a home for SC orgs and have a regional group to connect with at TLCC. My hope is that this group expansion will provide additional value to your organizations, and benefit the arts & culture scene of the Carolina's region.

Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Michael

RE: Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Robert Mlodzik — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:15:36 GMT

The more the merrier, as it's said.

RE: Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Erin Murillas — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:03:19 GMT

I'm for it! I think bringing a few more orgs into our fold can only benefit everyone!

RE: Potential Merging of Carolinas -Tessitura Community Group

Angela Brown — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:10:51 GMT

Hi Tiffany,

I think this is a great idea as some of the organizations in South Carolina are geographically closer to us in WNC and it would be helpful to have a place for collaboration that includes both states.

Angela Brown
The North Carolina Arboretum Society