Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup - May 9, 2013
Come and hear about the most recent developments in the world of CiviCRM! 3 local CiviCRM developers were in attendance CiviCon in San Francisco and the subsequent code sprint. Let's hear what the...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.3.2
After a great CiviCon we're in the middle of a week-long sprint in northern California, with 30 people from around the world pitching in to help improve CiviCRM. Thanks to all those efforts we're...
View ArticleGet the functionality you need into CiviCRM: Make it Happen 4.4
Check out our line up of new features looking for funding as part of Make it Happen CiviCRM 4.4 and spread the word to organisations that you think would would be interested in funding these...
View ArticleCharging Sales Tax / Value Added Tax (VAT) on contributions
With the introduction of CiviAccounts in CiviCRM 4.3 the ground work to allow CiviCRM to cater for Tax against contributions has been laid.During the week-long sprint in northern California following...
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CiviCRM Sprinters Push Soft Credit Improvements Forward!
Coming off of CiviCon North America 2013, 25 members of the CiviCRM community spent a week at the Woolman Center working on new functionality, creating documentation, and discussing how to grow the...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.3.3
Today we are releasing the 4th stable release of CiviCRM 4.3. If you are still running an older version of CiviCRM, now is a great time to download and experience the many improvements in CiviCRM 4.3....
View ArticleCiviCRM Starter Kit on Pantheon’s click-and-play hosting
We have seen two recent breakthroughs for people who want to spend more time on implementing awesome websites and less time fiddling with hosting.Pantheon has launched a hosting service for Drupal...
View ArticleLet's put CiviCRM on the G2 grid of CRM products
G2 Crowd http://www.g2crowd.com/ is a web site that describes itself as providing business software reviews.They are currently running a comparative review of CRM products...
View ArticleTampa Bay Meetup
A small but very enthusiastic group came. We decided to move the meetup to the second Wednesday of each month. The location may alternate between Clearwater and Plant City, FL. Each person described...
View ArticleA New Model for Trainings - Join us in DC
I started out with CiviCRM as an end user who installed it for organization where I used to work. My colleagues and I were self-taught through trial and error, and after a little while, we understood...
View ArticleSustainable CiviCRM Part 1: A service provider association
At CiviCon San Francisco, and at the sprints that followed, we spent a fair amount of time on the subject of ‘CiviCRM as a self-sufficient and financially sustainable ecosystem’. These discussions were...
View ArticleExpanding the CiviCRM End-user Community
A few weeks ago, I went to CiviCon. As a fairly new end-user, this was an incredible experience. Not only did I learn an insane amount of information and receive a wonderful training at the User and...
View ArticleAPI and the Art of Installation
CiviCRM configuration is largely driven through the web interface and the database: if an administrator wants to add a new "report" or new "relationship type", he can accomplish this with a few clicks...
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Let's Market CiviCRM Better!
One of the interesting conversations started at CiviCON was about marketing. Great energy and good ideas came out of small groups that met to brainstorm ways to amplify our voice. We broadly agreed...
View ArticleSEPA Direct Debit and why you should care
If you are not fundraising in any of the Single European Payment Area countries, feel free to skip this blog -- unless you want to discover how the amazing CiviCRM community is building support for...
View ArticleBad news : 2344 new payments into your bank account
Imagine you're a non-profit employee or volunteer, responsible for managing donations. You get into the office, pick up the first coffee on the way to your desk, to find a HUGE bank statement for you...
View ArticleCiviCRM security releases since 3.1 - quick reference list
Recently I was asked to compile a list of all CiviCRM releases since 3.1.0, identifying which were security releases so that we could make sure clients' sites, particularly those who were still running...
View ArticleMake It Happen update for 4.4
As we gear up to work on our next major milestone release CiviCRM 4.4, there's been a considerable excitement within the team for our MIH campaign. We believe the new features and new improvements to...
View ArticleSECURITY Release: CiviCRM 4.3.4
Today marks the 5th stable release of CiviCRM 4.3. The CiviCRM community has truly rallied to make 4.3 the most reliable and feature-rich version yet - over 60 people contributed patches and testing to...
View ArticleCiviCRM Distributions / Starter Kits
This is a post to start a discussion, something of an expansion of Dave's blog (Let's Market CiviCRM better) and Jessica's blog (Expanding end users). I guess it's about starting to get some practical...
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