![]() This is about Eventbrite but it’s also not about Eventbrite. And we ask ourselves, ‘What happens if this all goes away?’. And every time we see a software provider blithely announce changes to their products, we cautiously review the choices we’ve made and start looking at alternatives available. We have a short checklist, a bit of a sanity check to measure these tools against. Things like security and privacy of the data we share, long term sustainability of the information we publish on other sites. But we also weigh this up against other concerns. And a well chosen tool can help us get things done quickly and easily. We’re wary of Not Invented Here (NIH) Syndrome and appreciate a good user experience. As a result, we’re more reliant on third party software now than ever before.Īs people who build software as well as being users of Content Management Systems, helpdesk software, Customer Relationship Managers, event management software and other Software as a service (SaaS) products, this is something we spend time thinking about. There’s a lot of software out there to make our lives a bit easier -certainly easier than wrestling control from local IT departments or wrangling with software installation. But more and more of our software choices impact our users too. ![]() Some of it is pretty clunky (hi collection management software!), some of it quite specialised and for staff eyes only. We interact with a lot of different software every day.
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