Hello,
I wanted to get an idea of what folks are using for volunteer management. Also is your system available through the web.
We currently track our volunteers through tesssitura using associations, and use attributes to indicate what areas they have been trained and are ready to work in. We also make use of a custom tab on the constituent record to track the activities they worked in. I was thinking of just extending this functionality to the web still using the tessitura functionality we have. This would give them access to a volunteer portal and allow them to manage their own schedules.
Any thoughts/suggestions greatly appreciated.
Jon
I checked into the resource scheduling for volunteers and it isn’t really meant for that. It is basically just for booking people as part of a ticket order.
From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Zenczak Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:32 AM To: Gloria Ormsby <gormsby@flynncenter.org> Subject: Re: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Volunteer Management Suggestions
Hi Gawain,
Thanks. I will look into this. We have been told by other organizations using Tessitura, that we should try out Tessitura first, before getting all crazy with the custom built stuff. Thank you for repyling.
Daniel
From: Gawain Lavers <bounce-gawainlavers9512@tessituranetwork.com> Sent: 2/24/2017 11:35:36 AM
Hi Daniel,
Before you dig in to one of the homebrew Tessitura volunteer tracking systems you might want to investigate the Resource Scheduling tool that will appear in version 14, especially since it sounds like you have a functional system for the immediate future:
http://www.tessituranetwork.com/network/Learning/Documentation/v14/Whats%20New%20in%20v14.aspx
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We're looking at Resource Scheduling for this sort of thing too. I appreciate that the functionality isn't fully confirmed yet (or even available in the sandbox to play with) but it'll be interesting to get my hands on this new functionality. I'm sure that to make it work for volunteers there'll be some custom work required - but the ability to do such custom work is what (for some of us) makes Tess such an attractive piece of software!
There's a part of me that gets a little bit (too) excited at the idea that the resource calendar could be exposed to the web so that people identified as being a resource will be able to log into the website and pull up their calendar.
Martin