All,
As many of you may be aware, I'm interested in "lighting up data" to help cultural non-profits meet budget and deliver on mission. In the New York Area, I am super lucky to have many opportunities to meet with Data Scientists, Analysts, Machine Learning Experts from many organizations. These interactions have been both encouraging, and have helped me learn a lot. Most of the folks I meet are not from cultural non-profit organizations. Most are from large financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, internet startup or academic organizations.
What I feel I'm missing, is consistent opportunities to meet with, learn from, and encourage other Cultural Non-Profit data leaders like each of you.
Over the past few years, I've been interested in more regularly participating in data analytics conversations with my Tessitura Colleagues.
With that in mind, I'd like to invite each you to a conversation about forming a Data Analytics Virtual Tessitura Users Group (VTUG) within our community.
To gauge interest, and maybe start a bit of planning, I'd like to invite each of you to join me for a formation meeting this coming week.
I've arranged a Go To Meeting conference bridge but, I'd like to know when folks could meet. So, I've set up a doodle poll to find the most convenient moment for many of us.
https://doodle.com/poll/fs58cwq2xc2pxwui
Looking forward to a great conversation.
--Tom Brown
Hi All,
Sorry to have been offline for a few weeks. Some changes going on with my work...
I've also been looking for a technical solution for doing an open space style discussion online. We think we found a tool that might work.
We are going to conduct a quick test of the tool on Friday 10/19 at 2:00pm EDT. The session will last 30 minutes. I would love to have a few folks join us just to see how the tool works.
This will not specifically be an analytic discussion. Just an opportunity to experiment with an online tool we might use as out "meeting place" of the Virtual TUG.
You can join the Analytics Virtual Tessitura User Group (the A-TUG) on QiQoChat using the following URL:
http://atug.qiqochat.com/invitation/jbWwu/skcGBXBPNfIYEGKrMVuVONfQx
And then RSVP to our meeting on 10/19 at 2:00pm using this URL:
https://qiqochat.com/e/LmmHpXNwaGiShMwwxWjvOtYoE/xZwtMJvDcMfcJNlUXOhbMVPlE
Looking forward to having a few people join.
If you run into any problems please let me know at
tgbrown@lsc.org
Thanks to those who were able to join our brief gathering yesterday.
Here is a description of the QiQoChat tool we are investigating:
https://qiqochat.wordpress.com/all-tools-on-qiqochat/
We are working with the creator of this tool Lucas Cioffi. He is both the developer of QiQoChat and a Leader in the online OpenSpace Community. He has been supper helpful, making a few minor changes to the way the system works to support the way we would work together. And he has generously offered to sponsor a first meeting on the platform.
We don’t yet have a date or theme for our first online Tessitura analytical open space. However, I am now comfortable that this will happen at least as a one time event.
If you are intrested, you are invited to take a moment to sign up for the Analytics Virtual Tessitura User Group (the A-TUG) on QiQoChat.
Poke around... Fill out a profile.
Drop me an email if you have questions or run into any problems,
—Tom
tbrown@mocanyc.org