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Reminder! Meeting next Wednesday, November 8th!

Tamara Carnes — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:57:17 GMT

Reminder that we're having a virtual meetup next week! Please join us Wednesday, November 8th, at 2PM Central/3PM Eastern. We will be starting the discussion with the new V16 changes and features being implemented by WTTW. This will be followed by general topics like what is working or not working for us with Tessitura.

We invite you to bring any other topics that you’d like to discuss with your peers.

Please let us know if you plan to attend. RSVP on the event page at the link below. See you next Wednesday!

https://community.tessituranetwork.com/topical_groups/public-media-tessitura-community/c/e/1434

Public Media Tess Locations

Mercedes Brown — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:38:14 GMT

Hey Everyone,

How many public media organizations are currently using Tessitura? I know a station left the network, but not sure who it was or the market/region. Thanks!

Meeting this Wednesday!

Andrea Crain — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:13:24 GMT

Reminder that we're having a virtual meetup this week! Join us on Wednesday afternoon and let's discuss what's going on in public media Tessitura organizations.

- How will the new V16 changes and features coming down the pipeline work for us?

- How is Tessitura working for sustainers?

- In general, what is working for us with Tessitura? What fixes or new features does Tessitura need to work best for us?

Bring your ideas and let's collaborate to benefit our sector!

Please RSVP on the event page:

https://community.tessituranetwork.com/topical_groups/public-media-tessitura-community/c/e/1050

Thanks!

Consecutive Giving - Queries and Reports

Andrea Crain — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:30:13 GMT

Angela is interested in targeting especially loyal donors who have been giving with no gap years in between. We can do this with dynamic lists based on looking for people with gifts in each year, using the membership inception dates (if the memberships converted into Tess from the legacy system had those set accurately), or other options like custom output elements.

If you had to pick one or two "go-to" resources for major gift donor strategy, what would you use?

Andrea Crain — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:26:27 GMT

Danielle wondered what are the best ways to keep track of information about your major donors, aside from of course Plans? She shared that she has been doing research about the donors and pasting the information into the Research Notes tab. Some other suggestions included keeping track of their university affiliation so you don't send any references to the rival school, adding attributes for discrete bits of information you wanted to find out about lots of people because that is more easily searchable than notes, and adding Interests if you happen to learn what sort of shows the donor loves to watch.

Any more ideas on how to get to know your major donors?

Wordfly and Prospect2 Integrations

Andrea Crain — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:17:46 GMT

Let's continue the discussion from our meeting here! Some folks had questions about how Wordfly or Prospect2 integrate with Tessitura. Bryan and Jack from the network shared that integration is handled by the email vendor you choose, the installation is standardized and simple, and they can answer questions about their specific product, or you could send a question to the help desk at hello@tessituranetwork.com for questions like this as well.

Customizing Tessitura to hold Passport viewing data

Andrea Crain — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 20:15:18 GMT

Let's keep the discussion from our meeting going!

All of us want to do a customization to hold Passport viewing data, but we haven't gotten started with it yet. Currently viewing data is being analyzed outside of Tessitura in spreadsheets and third party tools.

While attributes are great for things like MVault tokens and activation dates, we are thinking a local table would be great to hold the passport viewing data itself, which we could then mine to assign interests based on shows & genres the person watched a lot.

Reminder: Event this Friday!

Andrea Crain — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:32:22 GMT

We’re excited for our next Public Media Community get-together! Please join us this Friday, February 12^th, at 1PM Central/2PM Eastern, and bring your big wins for this month so we can celebrate together, and your biggest puzzles for us to discuss. We also invite you to bring any other topics that you’d like to discuss with your peers. We’ll quickly set the agenda collaboratively using a Lean Coffee Discussions format, then start digging into the topics everyone is most interested in.

To participate in this meeting, you will need to log into GoToMeeting and Lean Coffee Table (login details are provided here).

Please let us know if you plan to attend by registering at the link below. See you Friday!

https://community.tessituranetwork.com/topical_groups/public-media-tessitura-community/c/e/627

Reminder! Informal virtual gathering is tomorrow, Jan 8th.

Leah Schier — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:55:42 GMT

Thank you all for joining our new community group – I appreciate your willingness to get this effort up and running. Just a quick reminder the first virtual meeting is happening tomorrow at 2pm EST/1pm CST and if you have not already please RSVP to the event for the GoToMeeting details.

https://community.tessituranetwork.com/topical_groups/public-media-tessitura-community/c/e/611

This will be an informal gathering to give you all a chance to meeting other users, express your thoughts about the topics most important to your work and the format of future gatherings.

Hope to see you there!

Leah!

Welcome! We want to hear from you!

Leah Schier — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:00:07 GMT

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