Insights & InnovationUnique and special
Company News / Technology • 5 min
Vice President of Product Debra Weissman shares takeaways from her first three months at Tessitura
Insights & InnovationBuilding durable success
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 3 min
Andrew Recinos and Dave Wakeman discuss how live event producers can build fans for life
Success StoriesEvolution and transformation
Museums / Technology / Ticketing and Admissions / Audience Development / Fundraising • 7 min
Why a unified view helps Brooklyn Museum plan a visitor-centered, digitally forward future
Insights & InnovationBoost your fraud defenses
Security / Finance / Technology • 4 min
Three steps you can take to prevent a spike in fraud
Insights & InnovationHedgehogs and hospitality
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Community Engagement / Business Strategy • 15 min
A case study in values-driven strategy at Irish Arts Center
Insights & InnovationHow Pittsburgh’s cultural district is revitalizing downtown … again
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Community Engagement • 14 min
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust plays a role in catalyzing economic recovery
Insights & InnovationThe invisible jazz hand
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series • 12 min
Birmingham Hippodrome makes an economic case for musical theatre
Insights & InnovationDecoding the trend busters
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 2 min
Andrew Recinos highlights arts organizations increasing participation
Success StoriesPrevention is the best cure
Arts and Culture / Security / Technology • 5 min
Reducing chargebacks through effective fraud prevention
Success StoriesThe Arsht Center moves to the cloud
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / IT and Systems / Technology • 4 min
How Tessitura’s hosting and payment processing make it easy to improve infrastructure
Insights & InnovationNurture deep roots
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 16 min
Understanding the value of purpose in arts and culture
Community & ConnectionFive ways to learn at TLCC
Conferences and Events / Community Engagement • 5 min
Find what works best for you
Community & ConnectionPreparing for TLCC
Conferences and Events / Community Engagement • 5 min
Get the most from your conference experience
Community & ConnectionLike mother, like son
Arts and Culture / Orchestras / Ticketing and Admissions • 8 min
How a powerful family collaboration became Detroit’s Tessitura brain trust
Community & ConnectionStrengthen team skills with Tessitura training
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Ariel Ehrman, Houston Grand Opera's Business Intelligence Manager, boosted institutional knowledge with Hands-on courses
Success StoriesNo pain, all gain
Arts and Culture / Marketing / Ticketing and Admissions / Audience Development • 7 min
How secure digital ticketing helps arts and culture organizations grow revenue by knowing their entire audience
Community & ConnectionFind connection in the Tessitura community
Community News • 6 min
Seven ways to get involved
Insights & InnovationEveryone can innovate
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Collaboration / Digital / Technology • 7 min
Discover the innovator inside you
Success StoriesLittle things add up
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Fundraising • 7 min
How Shedd Aquarium uses microphilanthropy to raise revenue and increase access
Insights & InnovationWant big results? Start smaller
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
How to make innovation routine
Insights & InnovationWhat holds you back?
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 7 min
Surprising barriers that keep your team from innovating
Insights & InnovationSpring into digital donations
Fundraising / Memberships / Ticketing and Admissions • 8 min
Three ways to leverage online giving this season
Success StoriesBeyond the surface
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy • 5 min
How Liberty Science Center got strategic about data
Insights & InnovationPutting the i in team
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
Why the right team is the secret to unlocking innovation
Insights & InnovationPower, Glamour, Rebellion
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Audience Development • 19 min
Exploring social change as exhibition outcome in ACMI’s Goddess
Insights & InnovationBecoming awe-centric
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 17 min
Three steps to elevating awe in your arts and culture organization
Insights & InnovationCultivating connection
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Community Engagement • 20 min
Melbourne Recital Centre built community by transforming its spaces
Community & ConnectionEnhancing a city's cultural fabric
Arts and Culture • 8 min
Melanie Esplin talks about the rewards of overseeing fundraising efforts for one of New Zealand’s premier arts organisations.
Success StoriesUnlock your data stories
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Memberships / Presenting and Performance • 7 min
Why better storytelling might be the key to widespread use of your audience insights
Insights & InnovationBe well
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 20 min
Is this the moment for us to change the arts and culture narrative?
Insights & InnovationGood data is about people
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Technology • 45 min
How data is fueling the future of arts and culture (and why Tessitura members have an edge)
Insights & InnovationThe audacity of relevance
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Community Engagement • 16 min
Alex Sarian, President & CEO of Arts Commons, urges us to prioritize shared cultural experiences in the face of social isolation
Insights & InnovationWin the whole visit
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Audience Development • 13 min
Liam Darbon from Tate invites us to reach future audiences with an innovative single customer view approach
Insights & InnovationPutting butts in seats with digital arts education
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series / Audience Development • 13 min
Zenetta S. Drew challenges us to rethink the impact of cultural literacy on audience development
Insights & InnovationWho we are, what we value and where we’re headed
Arts and Culture / Technology • 40 min
Recapping the TLCC Orlando 2023 opening session
News StoriesTessitura adds Vatic to growing list of valued partners
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
Agreement provides arts and culture organizations with full-service pricing solutions
Community & ConnectionMy top five reasons you should check out TLCC Orlando
Conferences and Events / Community Engagement • 4 min
Refuel, gain new ideas and create new connections
News StoriesTessitura partners with Double Eagle Consulting to provide users with cybersecurity and other IT services
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
Agreement helps arts and culture teams reduce risk and optimize technology roadmaps
Success StoriesEmbracing new possibilities
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Museums • 7 min
How Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales transformed by dreaming big
Success StoriesCreating a data-driven culture
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Museums / Theatre • 7 min
How National Museums Scotland and Liverpool Everyman got their teams excited about data
Insights & InnovationPutting it together
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
How one museum brings digital transformation to life
Insights & InnovationReady, set, summer! Five ways to prepare for the busy visitor season
Arts and Culture / Museums • 5 min
Tips for museums and attractions to offer a seamless experience
Insights & InnovationAudience behaviors are changing. Are you keeping up?
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
Leveraging customer networks in a digital world
Insights & InnovationPropelling innovation
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
Three technology advances driving digital transformation in arts and culture
Insights & InnovationDebunking four digital transformation myths
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
Setting the record straight about common misconceptions
News StoriesTessitura and Activity Stream partner to provide integrated marketing, engagement and planning solutions
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
Agreement provides arts and culture organizations with tools covering the entire event life cycle
Insights & InnovationBeyond the buzz
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / Business Strategy / Digital / Technology • 5 min
What I wish someone had told me about digital transformation
Insights & InnovationData, decide, do
Business Strategy • 5 min
Three steps to data-informed decision making
Insights & InnovationIt's not always bots
Security / Finance / Technology • 5 min
Six ways to reduce the impact of fraudulent chargebacks
Insights & InnovationYou’ve got a smash hit. Dream or nightmare?
Arts and Culture / Ticketing and Admissions • 5 min
A hit should be all upside. True Tickets helps keep it that way.
Insights & InnovationAccidental lessons
Arts and Culture / Collaboration / Fundraising / Memberships / Ticketing and Admissions • 5 min
Four reminders when diving into new arts and culture territory
News StoriesNonprofit tech company Tessitura announces new board members
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Three arts and culture leaders join the Board of Directors
Success StoriesExtending your reach with Tessitura Extended Services
Business Strategy • 5 min
Extending your reach with Tessitura Extended Services
News StoriesTessitura receives 2023 CMX Community Industry Award
Community Engagement / Community News • 3 min
Tessitura recognized as the User Group Program Community of the Year by the 2023 CMX Community Industry Awards
News StoriesTessitura and Logitix partner to help performing arts organizations sell more tickets
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
Agreement provides Tessitura users with multichannel ticket distribution, pricing and inventory management tools
Success StoriesTechnology brings bold vision to life at award-winning Australian arts centre
Arts and Culture / Ticketing and Admissions • 5 min
How HOTA created a human-to-human customer experience with Tessitura-integrated kiosks
Success StoriesTurning prunes into sugar plums
Arts and Culture / Collaboration / Marketing / Ticketing and Admissions • 5 min
An exciting partnership helps Miami City Ballet reach a broader audience this holiday season
Success StoriesAll-access theatre
Arts and Culture / Marketing / Theatre / Ticketing and Admissions • 7 min
Two companies explore alternatives to the traditional subscription model
Insights & InnovationWhat we learned
Arts and Culture • 30 min
Andrew Recinos shares how arts and culture institutions can thrive in uncertain times
Success StoriesMembership without borders
Arts and Culture / Audience Development / Memberships • 7 min
How Scottish Ballet’s free membership program grew an engaged, global fan base
Insights & InnovationMake your DEI commitments mean more
Arts and Culture / DEAI / Marketing • 7 min
Four ways marketers can activate their organization's diversity and inclusion goals
Insights & InnovationSeven things I learned at Digital Marketing Boot Camp
Arts and Culture • 6 min
Karyn Elliott writes about her experience at Capacity Interactive’s Digital Marketing Boot Camp for the Arts
Insights & InnovationHow to have a digital mindset in an analog industry
Arts and Culture • 5 min
What arts & culture can learn from a digital-first event planner
Insights & InnovationIntentional support
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series • 10 min
Barbara Polk reveals ways the Kennedy Center invests to engage employees
Insights & InnovationPutting audiences in the director’s chair
Arts and Culture / COVID-19 / Virtual Experiences / Innovator Series • 13 min
Rathi Kumar lifts the curtain on the Young Vic’s Best Seat in Your House initiative
Insights & InnovationMake the most of GivingTuesday
Arts and Culture / Fundraising • 5 min
Ellie Griffiths takes you from setting goals to saying thank you
Insights & InnovationTurn insight into action
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics • 5 min
Three steps to a meaningful customer data strategy
Insights & InnovationData overdrive: How to become a reporting rockstar during the year-end fundraising push
Arts and Culture / Fundraising / BI and Analytics • 5 min
Tessitura’s analytics tools allow you to answer critical end-of-year campaign questions.
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Insights & InnovationDistractions abound. What does that mean for training your staff?
Arts and Culture / DEAI / Education • 5 min
We’ve been evolving our learning materials and programs to maximize learner engagement because of the many competing demands on time and attention.
News StoriesTrue Tickets and Tessitura extend partnership to deliver trust in ticketing
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
True Tickets and Tessitura Extend Partnership to Deliver Trust in Ticketing
Insights & InnovationKnow your visitors
Arts and Culture / Audience Development / Business Strategy / Customer Service / Marketing • 7 min
Four keys to cultivating better customer relationships
Insights & InnovationShow up as yourself
Arts and Culture • 3 min
Stephanie Ybarra of Baltimore Center Stage discusses the power of vulnerability
Insights & InnovationFundraising isn’t always a party
Fundraising • 5 min
Combat the cost of living crisis by making the most of your donor data
Community & ConnectionQ&A with Dr. Katherine Sadler, Houston Botanic Garden
Arts and Culture • 4 min
Co-chair of the Houston Tessitura Community, Dr. Katherine Sadler tells us what she loves about her job and Tessitura
Success StoriesBuilding better relationships
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Technology • 5 min
The California Academy of Sciences benefits from a single source of visitor data
Insights & InnovationAutomations to simplify your to-do list
Technology • 6 min
Five Tessitura tools to help save you time
Insights & InnovationDigital tickets
Digital / Technology • 6 min
How Tessitura’s members are adapting to a contactless world
Insights & InnovationThe next generation of payment processing
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Lessons for the arts and culture sector from the company that powers payments for Uber, Spotify, and eBay
Community & ConnectionQ&A with Andrew Chew, Arts and Culture Trust
Arts and Culture • 4 min
Chair of the Perth Tessitura Community in Western Australia, Andrew Chew tells us what he loves about his job and Tessitura
News StoriesNonprofit tech company Tessitura announces Board of Directors leadership appointments
Company News • 4 min
Joe Carter of the Los Angeles Philharmonic appointed as Board chair
Community & ConnectionQ&A with Shiona Walker, Scottish Ballet
Arts and Culture • 4 min
Co-chair of the North of England & Scotland Tessitura Community, Shiona Walker tells us what she loves about her job and Tessitura
Insights & InnovationWhat arts & culture can learn from a data analytics visionary
Arts and Culture • 5 min
The CEO of Sisense on gut feelings, thinking in multiple dimensions, and innovating for a better world
News StoriesTessitura announces new Vice President of Information Technology and Security
Company News • 4 min
Nic Boling, previously the CTO of Sydney Opera House, brings exceptional credentials in cybersecurity and public policy
Insights & InnovationTessitura: The technologist’s co-op
Arts and Culture • 5 min
How Tessitura’s member-owned model fuels innovation in arts and culture
Insights & InnovationTessitura is a non-profit. Here’s why.
Arts and Culture • 5 min
A tech company that puts arts & culture at the front of the line
News StoriesTessitura transforms the payment landscape with new solution
Company News • 4 min
Tessitura launches Tessitura Merchant Services, bringing new payment options to cultural organizations and their customers
News StoriesUngerboeck and Tessitura announce integration between VenueOps and the Tessitura platform
Ecosystem Partners • 4 min
New integration marks an expansion of Ungerboeck and Tessitura’s partnership
Insights & InnovationBuild back stronger
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Community Engagement / Technology • 3 min
Andrew Recinos on creating passionate communities at the intersection of art, culture and technology
Insights & InnovationImagining a world abundant with arts & culture
Arts and Culture • 5 min
The power of arts and culture to celebrate our common humanity
Insights & InnovationArts & culture: best common denominator
Arts and Culture • 5 min
The power of arts and culture to gently dismantle barriers
Insights & InnovationTessitura E-commerce sites
Digital / Technology • 5 min
Roundup of some of our favorite websites powered by Tessitura E-commerce
Insights & InnovationCan arts & culture increase compassion?
Arts and Culture • 5 min
New research shows a connection between arts and compassion that many have long suspected.
Success StoriesEnhancing online journeys
Arts and Culture / Digital / Ecosystem Partners / Marketing / Technology • 8 min
How the Santa Fe Opera optimized their website purchase path
Insights & InnovationSupercharge your skills
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Education / Technology • 8 min
Building organisational resilience with Tessitura super users
Success StoriesAn exercise in reinvention
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Presenting and Performance / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
How ICC Belfast, Waterfront Hall & Ulster Hall forged a new path in uncertain times
Insights & InnovationResources for cancellations and capacity restrictions
Ticketing and Admissions / COVID-19 / Technology • 3 min
We are here to help you as you navigate ongoing developments
Insights & InnovationDoes arts & culture lead to innovation?
Arts and Culture • 5 min
From the Medicis to Apple, exploring the creative journey from arts & culture to breakthrough innovation.
Insights & InnovationThe Long Tail of Product Development
Technology • 5 min
Alex Harris offers a peek into the work of Tessitura’s Innovation team | Tessitura Network
Insights & InnovationDo we remember how to be curious?
Arts and Culture • 5 min
How arts and culture leads the way out of a curiosity drought
Insights & InnovationHow one nonprofit digitally transformed to support art and culture in a changing world
Digital / Technology • 3 min
How one nonprofit digitally transformed to support art and culture in a changing world
Success StoriesHow Mayflower Theatre manages high-demand on-sales
Arts and Culture / Theatre / Ecosystem Partners / Ticketing and Admissions • 8 min
Paul Thompson and Niels Henrik Sodemann share their top tips for managing website traffic
Insights & InnovationExpanding the radius
Arts and Culture / Accessibility / Fundraising • 45 min
Increasing philanthropic support with an authentic approach to DEAI
Insights & InnovationFive questions to ask before your next donor meeting
Fundraising • 5 min
With Tessitura, the answers are right at your fingertips
Insights & InnovationQuick giving inspiration for Giving Tuesday
Customer Service / Digital / Fundraising / Technology • 3 min
Once you’ve inspired people to give, you want to make it as easy as possible.
Insights & InnovationWhy arts & culture is essential today
Arts and Culture • 12 min
Healing the world requires five human traits: arts & culture delivers them all.
Community & ConnectionFilling My Cup
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Katie Hathaway reminds us of the importance of taking time for ourselves.
Community & ConnectionThe Linguistics of Parenting
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Alex Harris explores his love of language and teaching his children the importance of words.
Community & ConnectionHooked
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Joanne Boniface shares the story of discovering a personal passion during lockdown.
Community & ConnectionMy Robot Friend and Me
Arts and Culture • 5 min
How artificial intelligence taught Sam Abney how to be more human.
Community & ConnectionYes, Please
Arts and Culture • 5 min
Jordan Bowering shares his story of finding balance as a self-identified people pleaser.
Insights & InnovationDemystifying the Future
Digital / Arts and Culture • 5 min
Kristen Olson reflects on a keynote conversation between Kwame Kwei-Armah and Seb Chan
News StoriesTessitura announces Jenifer LaMorte as Vice President, Business Development
Company News • 4 min
LaMorte brings leadership experience in sales, marketing, and ticketing
Insights & InnovationThe end is the beginning
Arts and Culture / BI and Analytics / COVID-19 / Finance • 5 min
How the Houston Ballet tells the story of their data through times of change
Success StoriesMaking the ask accessible
Fundraising / Arts and Culture / Theatre • 7 min
How the Instagift program helped Imagination Stage turn audiences into donors
Insights & InnovationHosting: the strong, silent type
Business Strategy / Technology • 3 min
Anna Wessely writes about Tessitura’s migration to the commercial cloud
Success StoriesA contactless customer journey with a personal touch
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Technology / Ticketing and Admissions • 7 min
How Georgia Aquarium creates a visitor-focused experience
Insights & InnovationHosting engaging digital performances
Arts and Culture / Digital / Ecosystem Partners / Virtual Experiences • 3 min
An interview with Tessitura, Vimeo, and The National Theatre
Success StoriesEngaging audiences with courage and optimism
Arts and Culture / Digital / COVID-19 / Business Strategy • 5 min
How the Royal New Zealand Ballet deepened audience relationships during the global pandemic
Insights & InnovationMake your on-sales a success
Ticketing and Admissions / Digital / Customer Service / Technology • 5 min
Eight tips to help you plan for a smooth on-sale | Tessitura Network
Success StoriesFree ticketing, new opportunities
Arts and Culture / Customer Service / Museums / Ticketing and Admissions • 5 min
How Science Museum Group grew engagement and enhanced the visitor experience
Insights & InnovationReopening, reconnecting, rebuilding
Arts and Culture / Audience Development / Business Strategy • 5 min
Karyn Elliott shares five strategies to prepare to welcome your audiences back
Insights & InnovationFrom lockdown to full capacity
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
Ten things Australian and New Zealand organizations have learned from reopening
Insights & InnovationDigital Transformation
Digital / Technology • 3 min
John Jakovich writes about cultivating innovation at Tessitura
News StoriesVimeo and Tessitura partner to bring the power of video to hundreds of arts and culture organizations
Digital / Ecosystem Partners / Virtual Experiences • 4 min
Strategic partnership unlocks access to Vimeo’s robust over-the-top (OTT) video capabilities directly through the Tessitura platform
Success StoriesPhysically distanced, musically connected
Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Customer Service / Ticketing and Admissions • 3 min
How the ZACH Theatre is bringing back audiences — safely
Insights & InnovationSix museums inspiring us right now
Museums / Community Engagement / Digital • 5 min
Museums are demonstrating value with innovative and audience-focused responses
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Five tips for building engagement with virtual experiences
Business Strategy / Digital / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
Build an intentional customer journey to cut through the Zoom fatigue
Insights & InnovationLittle things are coming!
Technology • 5 min
Chris Szalaj shares small features that will have a big impact in Tessitura v16
Insights & InnovationInnovation at Tessitura
Business Strategy / Technology • 3 min
Thoughts from Co-Founder Chuck Reif
News StoriesNew Tessitura CEO Andrew Recinos aligns leadership to propel innovation
Company News • 4 min
Nonprofit company commits to advancing the business of arts and culture in the coming years
Insights & InnovationHighlights from Tessitura Europe Community Week
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 • 5 min
Our top takeaways from a week of sharing, gaining insight and finding inspiration as a community
The CulturephilesWhen in doubt, bring in the cats
Arts and Culture / Community Engagement / COVID-19 • 7 min
How Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum is transforming experiences with feline intervention
Insights & InnovationTailor your gift certificates for virtual events
Digital / Ticketing and Admissions / Technology / Virtual Experiences • 4 min
Tips for making the most of the gift-giving season
Insights & InnovationSix takeaways from Arts Marketing Association’s first Arts Marketing Festival
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 • 3 min
Highlights from the two-day virtual festival that brought together arts professionals from the UK and beyond
Success StoriesZoo Lights in the Darkness
COVID-19 / Digital / Ticketing and Admissions • 3 min
How the Dallas Zoo paved a path to a new drive-through experience
Insights & InnovationA refounding moment
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
Digital transformation in arts & culture: An interview with Kristin Darrow
Success StoriesTransforming holiday traditions for 2020
Arts and Culture / Customer Service / Digital / Ticketing and Admissions / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
Inspirational ways that organizations are connecting with audiences this holiday season
Insights & InnovationMoving from data visualization to predictive forecasting and machine learning
BI and Analytics / Technology • 5 min
Chris Wallingford offers a peek into the future of Tessitura Analytics
Success StoriesKeeping live audiences safer
COVID-19 / Customer Service / Digital / Ecosystem Partners • 3 min
Atlanta Opera and Appscension collaborate on digital health check surveys
- Insights & Innovation
It’s always the season for retail revenue
Business Strategy / Ecosystem Partners / Memberships / Technology • 3 min
And for connecting Tessitura with your retail point-of-sale software
The CulturephilesThe Art of Essentialism
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 8 min
Streamlining without compromising in the COVID age
Insights & InnovationSix quotes that captured our imagination at Digital Marketing Bootcamp for the Arts
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 • 3 min
Highlights from the two-day virtual event that brought together digital marketers from the arts and cultural sector
The CulturephilesCreating Revenue Diversity in a Pandemic
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 8 min
Does your budget look like a Pac-Man or a Trivial Pursuit Wheel?
News StoriesTessitura releases cascade of new features to enable arts & cultural organizations to survive, engage, and raise revenue
Company News • 3 min
From virtual experiences to contactless scanning to enhanced fundraising, new features help engage customers online and in person
News StoriesTrue Tickets and Tessitura align to advance enhanced, secure, contactless ticketing to performing arts venues worldwide
Ecosystem Partners • 5 min
Using True Tickets, Tessitura’s clients can take back control of their ticketing from the secondary market, better understand individual patron behavior, and take steps to reopen safety
Insights & InnovationRefresh your Tessitura knowledge with our free training resources
Technology • 4 min
Online courses, guides, and videos for beginners and experts alike
The CulturephilesBehind the Music: How the Dallas Opera Won the Internet
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 7 min
How the Dallas Opera won the internet
Insights & InnovationOnce upon a time, in a world where data became insight…
BI and Analytics • 6 min
Tessitura’s Kate Watson writes about telling your data story
The CulturephilesPost-traumatic growth is real.
Arts and Culture • 6 min
A study on trauma resilience points to opportunity on the other side of COVID. Are arts & culture ready to play a part?
The CulturephilesThink local, act local: Hometown pride surges in lockdown
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 8 min
How cultural organizations are harnessing local pride to engage all audiences
The CulturephilesDoes your audience look like your city?
Arts and Culture • 6 min
How a response to tragedy provides a lesson in diversity
Insights & InnovationMaking donations faster and easier
Digital / Fundraising / Technology • 4 min
How we created One-Page Giving | Tessitura Network
The CulturephilesSix traits of forward-looking cultural organizations
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy • 8 min
What Tessitura has learned from six months of listening
Insights & InnovationTurning data into dashboards
BI and Analytics / Technology • 6 min
Amy Welsh shares the five-step process she uses to create Tessitura Analytics dashboards
Insights & InnovationDelivering virtual experiences with Tessitura
Digital / Ticketing and Admissions / COVID-19 / Technology / Virtual Experiences • 5 min
How to get started with bringing your work into the digital space
Insights & InnovationLet your customers choose what to pay in TNEW
Digital / Ticketing and Admissions / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Technology • 3 min
Ideas and considerations for editable pricing
News StoriesTessitura Network leadership transition set for year-end
Company News • 3 min
As planned five years ago by Jack Rubin, CEO & Co-Founder of the Tessitura Network, and the Board, Jack will be transitioning to an Advisory / Ambassador status at year-end and Andrew Recinos was appointed by the Board to be President & CEO starting January 1, 2021.
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Nancy Yao Maasbach
Arts and Culture / Innovator Series • 45 MIN
In the wake of a five-alarm fire, “Kung-flu,” and anti-Asian American racism, Nancy Yao Maasbach discusses equity in arts funding, the sustainability of small but vital cultural institutions, and volatility on the road to conscience.
Insights & InnovationSeven tips for reopening
Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Ticketing and Admissions • 9 min
Make every visitor feel safe, and communicate more than ever.
Insights & InnovationHow to approach physically distanced seating
Ticketing and Admissions / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Technology • 6 min
Let your data help determine your approach
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Howard Herring
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Collaboration / Digital / Innovator Series / Orchestras • 45 MIN
Hear how the New World Symphony is responding to this moment by fully realizing the orchestra’s digital possibilities.
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Kwame Kwei-Armah
Arts and Culture / COVID-19 / Innovator Series / Theatre • 47 min
The Artistic Director of the Young Vic speaks about how theatre can help us face the threats of the coronavirus and systemic racism
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Shannon Bennett
Arts and Culture / COVID-19 / Innovator Series • 45 mins
How can arts and culture rapidly evolve?
Insights & InnovationReducing membership churn
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Fundraising • 7 min
Insights on renewing members during a period of change
Insights & InnovationHow Aristotle can help with your donor segmentation
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Fundraising / COVID-19 • 6 min
Rhetoric, value, and the art of tailored persuasion
News StoriesL2 Interactive and Tessitura announce donations in under 10 seconds with Donate2
Ecosystem Partners • 3 min
Special introductory offer available until October 1, 2020
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Claire Spencer
Arts and Culture / COVID-19 / Innovator Series • 44 mins
Learn how CEO Claire Spencer and her team are charting a course through immediate crisis to recovery directly linked to the Centre’s values.
Success StoriesGoing live during a pandemic
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Collaboration / COVID-19 / Technology • 7 min
How Tessitura is helping the Sarasota Ballet and others implement exciting changes — remotely
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Annie Burridge
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 / Digital / Innovator Series • 54 mins
How Austin Opera quickly launched a digital programming series with brand-new content during closures related to COVID-19
Insights & InnovationThe Opportunity of Asking
Arts and Culture / Fundraising / COVID-19 • 5 min
Hands-on advice for making the most of GivingTuesdayNow
Insights & InnovationSaying Please and Thank You
Arts and Culture / Fundraising / COVID-19 • 5 min
Getting ready for GivingTuesdayNow | Ellie Griffiths, Tessitura Network
Insights & InnovationInnovators in Conversation: Scott Stulen
Arts and Culture / Audience Development / Business Strategy / Collaboration / COVID-19 / Innovator Series • 45 mins
How Philbrook Museum is leaning outward, rather than in, during the COVID-19 crisis
News StoriesTessitura Network accelerates learning and connection among arts & culture professionals
zzCompany News / Community News • 5 min
During coronavirus crisis, member-owned company stays true to its mission to provide technology, services, and community
News StoriesTessitura announces new online series, Innovators in Conversation
Community Engagement / zzCompany News • 3 min
Events to feature leaders advancing the business of arts and culture in a time of crisis
News StoriesTessitura Network expands capabilities and resources
Company News • 3 min
Efforts help arts and culture navigate the COVID-19 crisis, retain revenue, boost productivity, and share ideas
News StoriesDonorSearch and Tessitura announce new integration
Ecosystem Partners / Fundraising • 3 min
All-new integration features enhanced functionality
Insights & InnovationConnection and Presence
Arts and Culture / COVID-19 • 3 min
Erin Koppel writes about Tessitura Arts & Culture Connections
Insights & InnovationYour customers are not strangers
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 • 6 min
How to maintain relationships and retain revenue when your doors are closed
Insights & InnovationUnderstanding your audience during a crisis
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / COVID-19 • 6 min
Why segmentation is more important than ever during COVID-19
Success StoriesReorganise, Reuse, Rethink and Relaunch
COVID-19 / Digital / IT and Systems / Museums • 3 min
Lessons from the Philbrook Museum
Insights & InnovationBe where your donors are
Arts and Culture / Fundraising / COVID-19 • 3 min
How to use video to keep close to your donors | Erin Koppel, Tessitura Network
Success StoriesHow San Francisco Ballet used Prospect2 to solve a communication crisis
Arts and Culture / Customer Service / Ecosystem Partners / Ticketing and Admissions • 2 min
A success story from Tessitura ecosystem partner Prospect2
Insights & InnovationWhat does it mean to be a relational fundraiser during social distancing?
Arts and Culture / Fundraising / COVID-19 • 3 min
Three things savvy fundraisers can do now | Erin Koppel, Tessitura Network
News StoriesTessitura Network Business Continuity Statement
zzCompany News • 3 min
Tessitura Network is open for business during COVID-19
The CulturephilesHow do you define your Cultural Climate?
Arts and Culture • 4 min
Andrew Recinos and Michael Greer learn how cultural organizations thrive today by playing the cards they’ve been dealt
The CulturephilesThe Cultural Experience Framework
Arts and Culture / Audience Development • 8 min
Designing the Perfect Experience | Andrew Recinos and Michael Greer
Success StoriesBelfast’s Waterfront Hall and Ulster Hall nominated for national marketing award
Business Strategy / BI and Analytics / Customer Service / Digital / Marketing / Ticketing and Admissions • 10 min
CIM nomination comes less than a year after organisation goes live with Tessitura
Success StoriesTessitura helps take an orchestra's fundraising program to a new level
Fundraising / Business Strategy / BI and Analytics • 4 min
Jennifer Barton describes how the Jacksonville Symphony created big increases in major giving, donor numbers, and more
Insights & InnovationBack to basics: CRM strategy
Business Strategy • 5 min
Jenifer Thomas LaMorte writes about how to achieve successful CRM by aligning your platform, process, and people.
The CulturephilesThe Trajectory After Tragedy
Arts and Culture • 5 min
The role of arts and culture to comfort, heal and illuminate
Insights & InnovationTessitura Europe Conference features over 100 presenters in 60+ sessions
Company News / Arts and Culture / Community Engagement • 4 min
Chilina Madon writes about the people power behind the Birmingham conference
Insights & InnovationCulture breathes new life into a struggling town
Arts and Culture • 10 min
Andrew Recinos talks about how arts and culture is transforming a small English town.
Insights & InnovationEnlightenment
Arts and Culture / Technology • 35 min
Andrew Recinos and John Jakovich talk about how neat ideas and practical application can lead to tremendous results.
News StoriesiWave and Tessitura partnership strengthens with new integration functionality
Ecosystem Partners / Fundraising • 3 min
Upgrades offers a more holistic picture of donor prospects from within Tessitura
The CulturephilesThe most important question fundraising teams should ask
Arts and Culture / Business Strategy / Fundraising • 4 min
“Who don’t we know?”
Tech SpotlightBuild your acknowledgement program with Tessitura
Audience Development / Fundraising
Acknowledgements give you the flexibility to create the right acknowledgement program for your organization.
