Hello Friends!
My name is Autumn and I am the interim Box Office Manager as well as the Database Manager for Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara. Our box office works in a Consortium, meaning we have a lot of hands in the database, which means there is tons of work needed to keep our database and clean and organized as possible. I come from 10 years of Ticketing experience but am still learning about the deeper database cleanup procedures. With that being said, I would love to start a community group surrounding database upkeep – from best practices, various cleanup projects (for both ticketing and development), what’s worked well for organizations and what has not.
I’m looking to see if there is any one else out there like me that could really benefit in a group meeting such as this, as well to see if there is anyone is interested in co-leading this group with me! I am interested in hearing any and all thoughts!
Please feel free to email me at asanders@etcsb.org
Wow I did not expect there to be this much interest! Thank you for all your responses, I will move forward in the next steps in getting this group up and running! I want to mention that I am looking for 1 - 3 volunteers who are able and willing to co-lead this meeting with me. I would love to get a little dream team together to help make this group as organized and relevant to all of us as possible. Please let me know if you are willing to volunteer!
Heath is right, we need to get Meredith Woolard involved. I'll shoot her an email and copy you on it. I co-chair two other groups, but I'd be happy to help you get this one up and running.
Thanks Anne M Robichaux! Autumn and I are definitely in touch. We look forward to launching a new community group for Database Managers soon! Stay tuned, all!