Hello everyone and welcome to the shiny new Public Media Tessitura Community!
Although I have met many of you, my name is Leah Schier - I am the Director of Business Intelligence at KERA and have volunteered to chair this new community. I started at my first Tessitura licensee in 2009 and have been crazy enough to bring KERA through implementation and go live in the spring of 2019. KERA is so pleased to see public media stations join the Tessitura Network and hope to see more soon.
As we plan for future meetings, we would love to hear from you about the types of gatherings you prefer. For example, would you prefer casual discussions, formal presentations, panel style Q & A discussions, etc. Please reply and tell us what goals/expectations you have with this group, which topics you would like to discuss in the future, and please feel free to introduce yourself.
Please save the date for our next informal gathering on Friday, January 8th and invite your co-workers to join the community.
On behalf of my co-chairs Tamara and Andrea, thank you for joining us in this digital space - we are looking forward to getting to know you all better in the coming months!
Leah
I am so excited to be a part of this new addition to the Tessitura Community!
My name is Jordan Edwards, and I am one of the Data Integrity Specialists at KERA. I have been a Tessitura user since 2016, and have been a system admin and/or power user for the majority of that time frame. Historically I have lived in the land of performing arts box office management, but have enjoyed my time in public media thus far! I am based out of California, and have been a member of the Bay Area Community Group's Planning Committee for about a year now. When I'm not working, I am at home (who isn't these days?) playing games or reading with my cats, Vince and Lulu. Pub trivia is my jam, and I will always be down to play.
As for what I'd like to see from this community, I tend to prefer panel style Q&A discussions, but do enjoy formal presentations and casual discussions as long as they have some sort of leadership and structure. I would love to see this community come together to learn about what different orgs are doing (good, bad, or ugly), as well as to get to know our peers within those organizations. User groups that I have been a member of in the past have met 3-4 times a year, and that seemed like a good amount, however, there were physical limitations and requirements involved there.
I have presented on, or would be willing to talk about the following topics:
- Data Hygiene (2019 BAYTUG panelist)
- Consortiums for Box Office (2019 conference presentation)
- Tessitura Analytics
- Plan Set Up
- Understanding the Constituent Record
- Extractions and Lists
- Creative ways to report on that
- Attributes / Interests / Constituencies
- TNEW
- Custom Forms