Hello,
Here at the Philadelphia Regional Arts Consortium there is definitely a desire to start having monthly user group meetings. And I think there are some of you out there in other consortia that do this and I'm wondering what you have found to be the best way to get started?
What works best in terms of scheduling and formatting the sessions? Is one month dedicated to a Ticketing group vs Development group? Or do you find that perhaps planning only by topics is best and then anyone interested can attend, regardless of the user group they belong to.
Any thoughts of wisdom would be so appreciated.
-Maureen Cotellese
Hi Maureen,
We're trying a few different things in the Perth Tessitura Consortium, the main one being a monthly Strategic Operations Committee meeting that we run via MS Teams and with the help of a shared Trello board. This meeting is really aimed at getting an overview of any projects going on in the consortium that require time and work by our Systems Manager and allocating his time (or accessing support from Tessitura) in an equitable and collaborative way. We try and get as many key users from all organisations involved in this meeting.
This has also lead to some offshoot working groups specifically dealing with one topic - e.g. access, or data management, which are really project based and will disband once these projects are completed.
Apart from that, we tried separate quarterly meetings of various functional areas, e.g. marketing, development, education etc, ,but these have struggled a bit, mainly because I (or anyone else) haven't been able to dedicate enough time to these to keep them running.
Plus, we also try and organise Tessitura Perth User Group meetings at least a few times a year (this includes Tess users that are not in our consortium), which are generally good but also take time and effort to organise with the organising committee members all having limited time to offer.
I hope this helps.
cheers
Nancy