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This Week in the Community
Weekly round up time! Being that it felt like Friday all day yesterday, I thought maybe I should look back and my week and see if there was anything else I missed. Here’s your community hot spots for...
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Altru Team: Live, In Person!
Come see us at the following A&C events in April: April 3-5, Beaumont Texas @ The Texas Association of Museums Annual Meeting Daniel Messervy and Jeff Heffner will be doing a session on mobile...
View ArticleChange is Hard: Putting the PRO in Process.
When I was a kid, I spent the summers with my grandmother at her cabin. She had a swimming pool, fishing poles, even a Nintendo, and we were not allowed to say, “I’m bored.” “Because we’ve always done...
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Today’s Tip: Rerun the Exisiting Export
Say your query has over 500 records in the results, you’d click create export in the Tasks menu to get them all out, instead of just the first 500 that shows in query: You’d then give it a name and...
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Community Round Up: What Happened in Q1
Alright community, this week’s round up is giant. I’m looking at everything that happened this quarter. You guys talk in quarters right? For the non-corporate folks, Q1 is Jan, Feb, and March. So...
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Hold Please
I watch a fair amount of House MD reruns. You know the show – abrasive doctor who can diagnose illnesses that no one else can. He often writes on a white board all of the known symptoms; he calls this...
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New Features Coming in April
Later this month, you’ll find new features included in your Altru™ subscription that are designed to add flexibility to the way you work! Visit the Altru New Release readiness site to get all the...
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New Feature: Group Sales – Adjust Attendees & Keep Overpayments
Group Sales has been a primary focus here on Team Altru in the most recent updates. This next one is no exception. In fact, we are debuting a couple of long-requested capabilities for the group sales...
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New Feature: Apply Event Registration Fees as a Donation
In the 3.0 release, we’ve added the ability to credit a portion of an event registration fee towards a donation. Let’s say your silent auction dinner sells for $75 a ticket. It costs you $45 per person...
View ArticleNew Feature: Help is on the way!
We do our best to be thorough; you might even call us heavy handed on the resources. We have user guides, knowledgebase, the community, new features guides, 101 training classes, our own YouTube...
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New Feature: Ticket Scanning Advancements
After releasing the ticket scanning feature last year, we received the following suggestion from Jason Sears, in the community: Another feature that would help is a list of the last ten tickets scanned...
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On a scale of 1-10 …
You already know what happens to your survey responses (or if you thought they went into the abyss, read here), but did you know there are other ways to let us know where you and Altru stand? We’ve got...
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Become an Altru Expert with Our 101 Classes
It was the topic of our most attended miniseries. It accounted for over 300 cases last year. It has just shy of 200 topics in the community. Yep, you guessed it: Query. We realize query can be tough,...
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And Then There Were Two: Meet Our 2nd Champion, Judith Rickard
With 333 replies, I have no doubt you already know Center for Wooden Boat’s Judith Rickard. She’s in the community every day – chiming in on other user’s topics as often as she posts her own. She’s the...
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3 Tips for Making the Most of the Community
So, we’ve got a lot going on in the Altru community. You can post problems, ideas, questions, and praise. We’re featuring members on Mondays, posting links to miniseries, keeping you informed about the...
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This Week in the Community
It’s been a good week in the community. One year ago this week, we invited you guys to join the community. And you did – you asked tons of questions, submitted ideas, got to know fellow members, and...
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Help the National Museum of Civil War Medicine Win a $100,000 Grant!
The Partners In Preservation Program, sponsored by the National Historic Trust and American Express, is currently giving away $1m to historic locations in Washington DC. Altru‘s own National Museum of...
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Shannon Knight, Champion #3
Our search for Altru champions continues! We are excited to welcome Shannon Knight, Director of Special Projects for the RISD Museum, to the group, taking us from a couple to a few. Get to know Shannon...
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Today’s Tip: Use Your Receipt Printer to Print Tickets
Looking to print tickets without investing in a ticket printer? You can always print the tickets on thermal paper using the same receipt printers you use for your itemized receipts. Not as elegant as...
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This Week in the Community
Here’s the round up from the community this week. We announced a new champion, our accountants are getting together, a couple issue have been uncovered and fixes planned. Check it out: NEW ACTIVITY ON...
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