With its theme of "How Software Can Increase Participation in Sailing", 22 attendees representing a range of Midlands clubs, the RYA and SSA members, enjoyed an interactive evening of sharing how software is helping individual clubs with administration, member engagement and reporting tasks.
The Sailing Software Alliance (SSA), representing the leading providers of software systems to sailing clubs and events, held its first Club Workshop at Hollowell Sailing Club, Northampton last week.
With its theme of "How Software Can Increase Participation in Sailing", 22 attendees representing a range of Midlands clubs, the RYA and SSA members, enjoyed an interactive evening of sharing how software is helping individual clubs with administration, member engagement and reporting tasks.
The SSA Workshop covered three key areas :A key theme across the different sessions was how the SSA members are working together to integrate their various systems to help improve the user experience and significantly help improve the participation reporting. The prototype SSA participation dashboard, that will draw data from various sources to automatically produce participation reports and analysis created much interest, and appears to answer many of the challenges clubs face with their ever growing data sets.
"Hollowell Sailing Club was delighted to host the Autumn SSA workshop. Members of the SSA described each of the software products and highlighted the benefits of each. Those present had the opportunity to hear about challenges facing other sailing clubs in relation to administration of memberships and recording and reporting on participation in a range of activities. It was particularly valuable to hear first hand from RYA's Sports Development Manager, Duncan Truswell, about how participation data is being used to strengthen the case for support of the sport. It was clear that this is no easy task in light of possible change in priorities following next years' general election. The event was particularly useful in prompting us to think more about using technology to improve the way in which we understand our members needs better and hopefully make sure they enjoy more of what we have on offer as a club."
Nicola Wilkinson, Commodore
"Great to see how positive all the clubs were to using different software and the high level of actual usage for the various SSA packages."
Jon Eskdale - SailWave
The presentation slides and video can be seen here
The next SSA Workshop will be on 3 December 2014 at Brightlingsea
Participant Organisations
RYA
Banbury Sailing Club
Grafham Water Sailing Club
Great Moor Sailing Club
Hollwell Sailing Club
Rugby & Daventry Sailing Club
Sailing Club Software
Sailing Club Manager
SailRacer
Sailwave
Notes to editors
The Sailing Software Alliance brings together providers of computer software and services for the sailing community and organisations interested in the use of IT in the sport of sailing. Members of the Sailing Software Alliance are committed to furthering the sport of sailing through the application of Information Technolgy.
http://sailingsoftwarealliance.org/
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| John Barber, Jeremy Pocock & Mike Jarmen |  |
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| Simon Lovesey & Jon Eksdale Part 1 | |
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| Simon Lovesey & Jon Eksdale Part 2 | |
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| Jon Eksdale | |
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| Simon Lovesey, SailRacer presentation at International Sailing Summit - Increasing Participation through technology | |
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| Schedule | |
| Workshop | Date |
| Workshop 1 @ Hollowell SC | 27th November |
| Workshop 2 @ Brightlingsea SC | 3rd December |
| Workshop @ Royal Victoria YC, IOW | 5th February 2015 |
| Workshop @ RYA Dinghy Show | 1st March 2015 |
| Workshop @ Lee-On-Solent SC | 25th March 2015 |
| Workshop @ Upper Thames SC | 16th April 2015 |
| Agenda |
| Improving Member Communication |
| Reducing Effort On Club Management |
| Data To Measure Participation |
| End To End Event Management |
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