Notes from the Summit: a web-based coming of age story
Thoughts from the 2015 User Summit in Washington DC 9.23.15-9.25.15.
View ArticleUsing CiviCRM to Manage Multiple Chapters and Thousands of Volunteers
Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites is a membership organization that partners with the State of Georgia to protect, preserve, and enhance the state’s treasured places. Back in 2007,...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.7 Alpha2 Release
The team is super excited to announce that the second alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!
View ArticleLost in translation
If you (and your colleagues/users) are an English native speaker, DON'T READ THIS. You don't have to bother. Lucky you.The rest of the world: Here's your chance to get rid of those weird translations...
View ArticleHelping San Francisco Baykeeper become a better advocate for San Francisco Bay
CiviCRM makes San Francisco Baykeeper a better advocate for San Francisco Bay. Before Baykeeper started using CiviCRM, we had a Stone-Age system for accepting online donations, a custom event...
View ArticleShare your input and help promote CiviCRM
In case you haven’t noticed, we don’t spend a ton of time on marketing and sales. Not only is our budget for marketing small (and by 'small', I mean 'tiny'), just take a quick look at the makeup of the...
View ArticleExperiments with read the docs
Submitted by Michael McAndrew on October 3, 2015 - 14:18A while ago I did a test migration of CiviCRM's user and admin documentation to gitbook and said that I'd also do a migration to readthedocs so...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.7 Alpha3 Release
Submitted by yashodha on October 6, 2015 - 23:32The team is super excited to announce that the third alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.6.9 Security Release
Submitted by yashodha on October 7, 2015 - 03:34The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.9 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.The latest release...
View ArticleHighland Hospital Foundation increases their donations and event participants...
Submitted by cividesk on October 7, 2015 - 12:41An interview with the Highland Hospital FoundationThe Highland Hospital Foundation is the 501(c)3 fundraising organization of HHA, Inc. The mission of...
View ArticleHow the Dutch Socialist Party climbed the mountain
Submitted by Sikkemao on October 12, 2015 - 04:40Includes a short history of the Dutch Socialist Parrty making the transition to CiviCRM facing the challenges step by stepIntroducing the Dutch...
View ArticleCiviCon London - Perspectives from a 1st time attendee
Submitted by jgowans on October 12, 2015 - 13:20It’s been nearly 15 years since I’ve been back to Europe and to the UK, and never before for a CiviCon (in London), so I didn’t quite know what to...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.7 Alpha4 Release
Submitted by yashodha on October 13, 2015 - 23:59The team is super excited to announce that the fourth alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7...
View ArticleUseful membership extensions
Submitted by jaapjansma on October 14, 2015 - 05:38The last year I have been working with the Socialistic Party to implement CiviCRM for their membership administration. Whilst doing that we developed...
View ArticleTracking and measuring success using CiviCRM: An Interview with emPower...
Submitted by cividesk on October 14, 2015 - 08:42EmPower Central Coast is an organization that was created to help homeowners in the County of Santa Barbara make energy saving improvements to their...
View ArticleStatistics lead to CiviCRM improvements
Submitted by cividesk on October 14, 2015 - 10:27As part of the statistics project for CiviCRM, we are calculating a number of metrics that give us a good visibility on CiviCRM end-users. Some of these...
View ArticleGetting started with CiviCRM
Submitted by cividesk on October 14, 2015 - 10:56For a lot of new users, CiviCRM can be confusing and intimidating: there are many menu options, the software can do so much, they simply don't know...
View ArticleCiviCRM: a key part of the free software movement
Submitted by Zak Rogoff on October 20, 2015 - 13:23The Free Software Foundation's mission is to promote and defend free software and build a strong movement for computer user freedom. I do...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviCRM 4.7 Alpha5 Release
Submitted by yashodha on October 21, 2015 - 00:15The team is super excited to announce that the fifth alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7...
View ArticleCiviCRM User Summit 2016 Report
Submitted by andrewhunt on October 23, 2015 - 06:49I'm excited to provide a final report from the CiviCRM User Summit, which was held in Washington, DC, September 24-25. The Summit expanded to two...
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