Your Tessitura Users Group

Hi Ranie,

I don't know if this will help you, since I'm not sure how long your group has been on Tessitura.  The Science Museum is a still a new-ish licensee, on for about 2 years, so we still have a lot of things to accomplish. 

I help coordinate our user group, which meets every 2 weeks.  The group is run by consensus; there's no specific authority figure who makes decisions.  Basically, anything that affects most departments or is a system-wide issue gets brought to this group.  I keep a log of all the topics anyone suggests, and we spend five minutes at the end of each meeting deciding what topic we'd like to tackle next.  This serves two purposes: it keeps the users engaged, and it lets people know in advance whether they need to attend.  For example, there are many topics that don't affect the web staff, so they know they don't need to come.  Keeps people from feeling like the meetings are unproductive for them.

In terms of what we cover, it's all over the map.  We have lots of standardization things, new procedures, etc; eg we just finished getting ready to use the new NCOA process, and now we have added to our list that we should re-examine how we handle addresses in general, as NCOA is rather a game changer.  We find that there is always some functionality that we want to grow in or some procedure that could work better, so there's no dearth of work.

If anyone is interested in how we run our consensus group, I presented on that at the conference last year; mine is the final presentation in the Empowering End Users powerpoint online.  I also just posted a copy of our "to do" and "done" list on my profile on the Tessitura Community page, in case that might spark some ideas.  Let me know if you have any questions!

Beth

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Elizabeth A Varro
Membership Manager
Science Museum of Minnesota
(651) 265-9829

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| Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:11:49 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
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Hi guys,

We have a Tessitura users group that meets once a month. Last year it took an angle that was a little dull, ticking boxes really - basically outstanding items that hadn’t been completed which really didn't have much to do with all of the people attending the meeting and those attending come from all departments, people who live in the system on a daily basis and those who touch it once a week!

So i want to know about what you guys are doing out there for your user groups?

Anyone really engaging their users in these meetings? Doing anything funky?

Inspire me………I dare you!! J

 

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Hi Ranie,

I don't know if this will help you, since I'm not sure how long your group has been on Tessitura.  The Science Museum is a still a new-ish licensee, on for about 2 years, so we still have a lot of things to accomplish. 

I help coordinate our user group, which meets every 2 weeks.  The group is run by consensus; there's no specific authority figure who makes decisions.  Basically, anything that affects most departments or is a system-wide issue gets brought to this group.  I keep a log of all the topics anyone suggests, and we spend five minutes at the end of each meeting deciding what topic we'd like to tackle next.  This serves two purposes: it keeps the users engaged, and it lets people know in advance whether they need to attend.  For example, there are many topics that don't affect the web staff, so they know they don't need to come.  Keeps people from feeling like the meetings are unproductive for them.

In terms of what we cover, it's all over the map.  We have lots of standardization things, new procedures, etc; eg we just finished getting ready to use the new NCOA process, and now we have added to our list that we should re-examine how we handle addresses in general, as NCOA is rather a game changer.  We find that there is always some functionality that we want to grow in or some procedure that could work better, so there's no dearth of work.

If anyone is interested in how we run our consensus group, I presented on that at the conference last year; mine is the final presentation in the Empowering End Users powerpoint online.  I also just posted a copy of our "to do" and "done" list on my profile on the Tessitura Community page, in case that might spark some ideas.  Let me know if you have any questions!

Beth

* * * * *
All aboard to experience a legendary journey on the world’s most famous ship.  Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition is now open at the Science Museum of Minnesota.   Log on to www.smm.org/titanic today to reserve your boarding pass.

Be social!  Find the Science Museum on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and more.  Log on to www.smm.org/social for more information.

Elizabeth A Varro
Membership Manager
Science Museum of Minnesota
(651) 265-9829

----- "Ranie Daw" <bounce-raniedaw3224@tessituranetwork.com> wrote:
| From: "Ranie Daw" <bounce-raniedaw3224@tessituranetwork.com>
| To: bvarro@smm.org
| Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:11:49 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
| Subject: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Your Tessitura Users Group
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|

Hi guys,

We have a Tessitura users group that meets once a month. Last year it took an angle that was a little dull, ticking boxes really - basically outstanding items that hadn’t been completed which really didn't have much to do with all of the people attending the meeting and those attending come from all departments, people who live in the system on a daily basis and those who touch it once a week!

So i want to know about what you guys are doing out there for your user groups?

Anyone really engaging their users in these meetings? Doing anything funky?

Inspire me………I dare you!! J

 

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