CiviCRM Booth at Biggest Open Source Conference
CiviCRM will have a booth at one of the biggest free and open source conferences: FOSDEM.The FOSDEM conference is held every year in Brussels (Belgium) and attracts more than 8000 participants from all...
View ArticleCiviHR's New UX Design
For the past few months we’ve been working hard to improve CiviHR’s user experience and interface and thought it was about time we pulled back the curtain to show you some of these improvements.
View ArticleUK CiviCRM Users! Join us for CiviCamp Manchester 2017
You are invited to the first CiviCamp in the UK, brought to you in Manchester, the “uncrowned capital of the north”! Firstly, for those not familiar with the term, what is a CiviCamp? It’s a bit like a...
View ArticleEnterprise Hosting for CiviCRM
Way back when, in the early days of CiviCRM, there were two CMS’s supported, Drupal and Joomla, and CiviCRM’s codebase was complicated, but ran reasonably well. After a few years, the code was greatly...
View ArticleThe quest for performance improvements - 5th sprint
The last two days we spent another sprint at socialist party to improve performance. And again we used a guy with database knowledge to analyze our queries. We have optimized a few things so far one...
View ArticleEmail Authentication – SPF, DKIM, DMARC
When email was first designed, security was not considered important and up until fairly recently it was still possible to send an email from any address and get away with it.
View ArticleCSV Import Helper extension released
Got a load of spreadsheet data from a 3rd party to import as activities/contributions but it's not matched up with contacts? Want an efficient way to reduce duplicates caused by messy spreadsheets?...
View ArticleJoin us at CiviCamp Denver 2017 on February 22
Considering CiviCRM for your organization? New to CiviCRM and in need of some tips? Experienced with CiviCRM and ready for advanced instruction? Then join us for CiviCamp Denver 2017! There is...
View ArticleWe're doubling the number of extensions available - Volunteer reviewers needed
Developers need to follow a new process to request automated distribution for their extensions. Volunteers are needed to perform extension reviews.
View ArticleNew reports for pledges
Over the past year I have been volunteering time to help out in the effort to raise funds for the Hundertwasser Art Centre. In order to help the HAC project I have added a couple of reports that may be...
View ArticleCIVICRM 4.7.16 AND 4.6.26 RELEASE
First CiviCRM release this year has happened: CiviCRM v. 4.7.16 and 4.6.26 are now released. RELEASE NOTES: First of all, Big thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies for putting up together...
View ArticleCalling all contributors
If you contribute to CiviCRM, we want to know about it. Now, you might ask "don't you already know given that contributions improve the code, coordinate events, extend the system, etc.?" Well, yes,...
View ArticleFree Resource today only: "Using CiviCRM" is Packt Publishing's free book of...
Just a heads up for the community that "Using CiviCRM" by Joe Murray and Brian Shaughnessy is Packt Publishing's free book of the day. See https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning.This book...
View ArticleThe quest for performance improvements - 6th sprint
In this blog I want to explain the round up we have done around the refactoring of the acl_contact_cache. In the previous sprints we discovered that a lot of the performance was slowed down by the way...
View ArticleSave $100: CiviCRM Training before NTEN Conference
AGH Strategies will be presenting a two-day CiviCRM User and Administrator Training in Washington, DC, and this week you can save $100 off the training fee.Register online with the code MARDIGRAS to...
View ArticleCiviRules upgrading and automated testing
Some of you will know, use and might even love the CiviRules extension. We certainly do! Quite a few of the organizations we support with their CiviCRM stuff use and love it, and judging by the...
View ArticleAre you joining us for fixing bugs in the Netherlands?
Thursday 23th and Friday 24th of March we are having a mini-sprint in the Ede (NL) in which we will fix CiviCRM bugs. We are with four of us already (Erik Hommel, Alain Benbassat, Klaas Eikelboom and...
View ArticleSuccessful Learning and Networking at CiviCamp Denver
CiviCamp 2017, formerly known as CiviDay, took place in Denver on February 22. This is a casual gathering that is organized by CiviCRM experts to create a forum to discuss, discover and evaluate topics...
View ArticleCIVICRM 4.7.17 AND 4.6.27 RELEASE
New release this spring - CiviCRM v. 4.7.17 and 4.6.27 are now released! RELEASE NOTES: Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies did amazing job as usual putting up together release notes for this version....
View ArticleHow does your individual donor fundraising compare?
Before I started working as a CiviCRM consultant, I was a CiviCRM user at a small nonprofit. We got a large chunk of our revenue through grassroots donations, but we never had an opportunity to see how...
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