CiviCRM Marketing Team: Time To Get Organized for 2017
The marketing of CiviCRM benefits from a large number of individuals that work to promote CiviCRM in their own way. At the same time though, CiviCRM’s marketing efforts tend to move in spurts, often...
View ArticleMailings now aware of the recipients' language
CiviCRM support for multiple languages and locales has been present for many years already. Features like multilingual donation forms, for instance, are now both common and easy to use. Some usages,...
View ArticlePop(ulate) your CiviCRM site with fake data
Preparing for a session at CiviCon London last month, I realised I needed better data than the out of the box sample data. It's a situation I've found myself in a few times so rather than write a one...
View ArticleThe quest for performance improvements - 2nd sprint
Three weeks ago I wrote about our quest for performance at the Socialist party. This week we had a follow up sprint and I want to thank you for all the comments on that blog.
View ArticleStreamlining Membership and Abstract Management with Drupal and CiviCRM
An interview with the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology The mission of the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology is the prevention of blindness through education and cultural exchange among...
View ArticleAnnouncing CiviVolunteer 2.2 Release
Ginkgo Street Labs is pleased to announce the availability of CiviVolunteer 2.2.Two themes are evident in this release: improving stability and furthering the multi-tier use case. The increased...
View ArticleSecurity releases: 4.7.14 and 4.6.24
All sites are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest secure versions of CiviCRM: v4.7.14 and v4.6.24.
View ArticleTo Have or Not To Have Financial Transactions
This little story about financial transactions has a couple of objectives: 1. share what we want to do for the benefit of each and everyone 2. find out if there are more organisations out there that...
View ArticleCalling All Users of CiviGrant!
I am interested in connecting with other users of CiviGrant. The Stack Exchange is great for specific questions, but I'd also like to: - Share real-life examples of CiviGrant use (such as...
View ArticleThe quest for performance improvements - 3rd sprint
Last week we had our third sprint at the socialist party to improve the performance. In the previous blogs I have explained what we have done so far. You can read them here and here.
View ArticleDiagnosing payment issues with iATS Payments, and what about 4.7?
It's a time of year when machines and people get stressed, particularly in countries where tax laws and custom favour end-of-year donations. And if you've ever managed a CiviCRM installation, the last...
View ArticleMaking extensions easier to find and publish
Over at the Extensions Working Group, we’re making careful progress toward improvements to the extension ecosystem, aiming to make it easier for all of us to do what we want with extensions: End users...
View ArticleDevelopers: Updates for civix and cv
cv (https://github.com/civicrm/cv) and civix (https://github.com/totten/civix) are Unix/CLI tools for developers. cv provides access to your Civi site on the command line, and civix generates skeletal...
View ArticleCiviCRM 4.7.15 release
First CiviCRM release this year has happened: CiviCRM v. 4.7.15 is now released. RELEASE NOTES: Big thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version....
View ArticleGiving Back: LYRIC
LYRIC is a small non-profit that is entirely managed by volunteer attorneys. Our mission is to teach youth how to safely exercise their Constitutional rights, and we do so by connecting with schools...
View ArticleThe quest for performance improvements - 4th sprint
Last week we had a fourth sprint to improve CiviCRM performance at the socialist party. During this sprint we started with looking at why the screen for adding and editing memberships loaded slow. The...
View ArticleJMA Consulting Welcomes Jon Goldberg
JMA Consulting is pleased to welcome Jon Goldberg as our new Director of Operations effective today.After a brief stint as a political organizer, Jon spent 13 years working in various capacities at a...
View ArticleJoin Us for Community Fridays
Hello world, I would like to introduce the idea of of CiviCRM "Community Fridays". Let's coalesce our ongoing community efforts improving Civi around a certain day of the week: every Friday.This is...
View ArticleIntroducing Effective Email Marketing With CiviMail
Civdesk is excited to announce our newest training opportunity - Effective Email Marketing with CiviMail. This session is going to cover how to best leverage CiviMail to get into your constituents In...
View ArticleDeveloper Documentation: Goodbye Wiki. Hello MkDocs!
TL;DR: A migration project is underway to bring wiki content into the Developer Guide.The wiki is kind of like that drawer in your kitchen where you put things that seem useful but don't really have "a...
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