Good morning all, We're a small chorus in Marin County, CA (SF BAy Area) and we've been using Groupanizer - well, actually, more like observing it! - for the past 5 or 6 months. It's a bit overwhelming, so much potential and not immediately intuitive, at least to this aging and sometimes addled brain! I'm a firm believer in user groups, and I'd really like to get this forum active. Mostly because I've got a LOT of questions, and I'm sure that there are people out there using the Groupanizer application with great results. So mostly this post is an attempt to see who's out there using the forums. Thanks, Bond (Secretary, Marin Golden Gate Barbershop Chorus)
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Must admit that sometime the system is challengin, but I have to admit if we have had a problem it has normally been me that generated it. Having helped with the inception I have come to be known as the "great exploder" a result of trying to say great exporer corrected by the spell checker. I am still learning, but have found a couple of helpful books which get me through some spots. Drupal for Dummies is a recommended read. Of course if you are looking for good stuff to help you go to sleep at night there is a wealt of it at drupal.org..
Ed White
Mount Baker Toppers
User for a few months. My chorus really started ramping up this month (January '11).
Larry Clapp, President, Tampa Heralds of Harmony, BHS
Hi. I am Philippa and I have been a user for 1 year and 23 weeks!
Well that what my account on here says!
Seriously though, Rhythm of the Rockies went live with Groupanizer Sept. 2009. We are a Sweet Adelines Chorus in Calgary, Alberta, with just over 50 members. Our Public site is powered by Groupanizer also.
Sweert Ad's... Introduce yourselves! :-)
Philippa Gelinas
webmaster - Rhythm of the Rockies
www.rhythmoftherockies.org
Hi all
Ok, my turn. I'm Yvon Blais, and I'm with the Capital City Chorus, wich is the Ottawa Chapter of the BHS. 100 men on paper. We've gone on Groupanizer about in April last year, and we're slowly transitioning from our old platform to this (which is kinda silly coz I got to run both...) but that what it is!!! Just some of our public pages are left back (and our mailing lists), and for chorus management, all is done with Groupanizer. I'll take the blame for the duet website!!!
I LOVE all the features and the way most things are set up.
Y
Hi Yvon,
I would like to talk to you. What is your choir's website address?
Parlez-vous français?.
Jean-Claude
Edmonton, Alberta
Amy Rule here with the Harbor City Music Company Show Chorus from Baltimore MD. We just found Groupanizer at the SAI convention in Seattle, and have brought it up as the members-only portion of our website as of Jan 1. I've pretty much done it single-handedly, and it's been mostly pretty easy. So far most of my chorus loves the site, especially our music and choreo teams. Still have a few members having issues, but we're planning on doing a presentation at retreat this weekend which hopefully will overcome most of that.
(Yeah, we're the Crayons from Seattle ...)
Amy Rule
Harbor City Music Company Show Chorus
www.harborcitymusiccompany.org
SAI 2012 Region 19 Champion Chorus
Ian Harrop
Western Hospitality Singers (BHS - Calgary Foothills Chapter)
Went live with Groupanizer for our pubic site in November 24th, 2010 and we are using the Members portion for all the standard stuff: repertoire, documents, calendaring, etc..
Ian Harrop
Western Hospitality Singers www.sing4fun.ca
Alberta Sport Parachuting Association www.aspa.ca
ian.harrop@live.com
Hello everyone,
Ron Morris, from the Major Oak Chorus in Nottingham, UK.
Just completed the trial period, and moving into actually paying for the site.
Although the learning curve is, in my opinion quite steep, I'm getting there now, and only get lost about 4 times a day!
Seriously, the whole chorus love the Repertoire and calendar functions, and our management and music committees are beginning to see the merits of centralised management. My next task will be to build the public side of the site, so I'll probably be bothering you all with stupid questions for some time to come.
Major OaK Chorus
Nottingham, UK
Welcome Ron. More than happy to join you in the stupid questions club!
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E. Bond Francisco
President (2012) - Marin Golden Gate Barbershop Chorus - D039
415.342.3295
Hello from Munich/Germany,
I am Groupanizer admin for Barbershopchorus "Herrenbesuch" (translatable as "gentleman visitors") from Munich. We started using Groupanzier in December 2010. Our Chorus members are quite satisfied with the new oganization system. My feeling is that Groupanizer and the forums here are more and more coming into live. That will help all of us a lot!
In addition to the common pitfalls translation into German makes some issues more tricky, but thanks to some busy people it is improving more and more.
Richard
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Visit our (german) site at:
http://www.herrenbesuch.net
Hi Richard,
I am looking at using Grouporganizer for my French language choir. As you have used it for your choir in German I am kinterested to know about your experience? I would maybe like to use it in French. We already have a public website at www.choralesaintjean.com but before switching over I would set up the management functions first. We are using Google groups to communicate with our members and and various other means to keep track of our members etc.
Jean-Claude
Edmonton, Canada
<In English for all to understand:>
Kari Metzger
EVP Business Development
Groupanizer
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Well, this thread looks like it died out in February, but maybe it's time to revive it. I'm the director of the Pittsburgh Threshold Choir, one of about 100 groups of women in the US, Canada and a few elsewhere who are organized to sing (usually 2 or three at a time) at bedsides of people who are very ill or dying. i stumbled across Groupanizer a few months back and after our recent national gathering decided to get serious about it. Glad I did -- two weeks in it's being met with great enthusiasm by everyone who has signed in, and I'm in the process of recruiting some of my colleagues to try it for their groups. We've got some unique repertoire and scheduling issues, and the flexibility of the system seems just about made for us.
Tom mentioned in passing that choruses are signing up left and right, so I'd be interested to hear who else is out there.
Cindy
Director, Pittsburgh Threshold Choir
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://ptc.groupanizer.com
Hi Cindy,
Only a few have posted in this Who's Out There thread
This will give you a better idea of he people that are currrently using Groupanizer
http://www.groupanizer.com/gclient_links
Ian Harrop
Western Hospitality Singers www.sing4fun.ca
Alberta Sport Parachuting Association www.aspa.ca
ian.harrop@live.com
Hi everyone
I'm from Adelaide Sound Connection, Sweet Adelines chorus in South Australia. After a trial period, we've only just really gone 'live' to our members with Groupanizer. I love it, and fortunately have one other chorus member who is tech-savvy and we can bounce questions and ideas off each other. There are a number of women in our chorus who already struggle with technologically-based tasks - some even still use tape recorders to make their riser tapes! Does anyone have any really great ideas for winning the hearts and minds of people who are relucant or fearful? I have created a couple of 'Getting Started on Groupanizer' text files with screen dumps - which I have tried to make user-friendly. Any other suggestions are very welcome!
thanks
Diane
Diane, Adelaide Sound Connection
Hello Everyone -
I am Joseph Workman from the West Michigan Gay Men's Chorus based out of Grand Rapids MI. I am actually just getting ready to launch the site to our board and then our membership will start using the product next fall.
I am interested in learning how your board members are using the product and how everyone is handling training.
Cheers!
Joseph Workman
President - West Michigan Gay Men's Chorus
www.wmgmc.com
joseph.workman@gmail.com
Hi Joseph,
I am with the Capital Chordettes of Harmony Inc. Our team of 3 implementers offered training sessions for 4-6 people, with enough laptops so everyone had hands-on experience. Some members received in-home personal sessions, since they needed to see it on their own computers. Some members needed no personalized training at all. Many in our chorus were reluctant to adopt this new technology, so we introduced functions gradually.
Diane
Capital Chordettes Inc
www.capitalchordettes.ca
Réponse pour Jean-Claude à Edmonton
Je suis avec le Capital City Chorus à Ottawa
email me: yvon.blais@cliniquemeg.com
Yvon
Hi Lisa and welcome to the forums. I'm sure you'll find plenty of help here as you get your website up and running. On thing that will make things easier is to create a signature for yourself on the forums. See this page: http://groupanizer.com/create-forum-signature-it-helps-people-trying-help-you
This will help us find your chorus page when answering questions. Plus, once you have a really good site up and running, we know where to go to steal ideas!
Tom Nisbet
Webmaster - Heart of Maryland Chorus
www.HeartOfMaryland.org
tom27@HeartOfMaryland.org