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Donald Lobo

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CiviCRM LLC

http://civicrm.org

Still thinking of a deep deep quote. Basically:

It is super important for non-profits, advocacy and related groups to take charge of their destiny. Having control of your data is a good start. The crowd-sourced nature of an open source project in so in line with the co-operation and principles of most non-profits

CiviCRM is a project that strives to make the above possible. It is FREE as in kittens.
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Core Team Member, Developer, Implementor

CiviCRM, Caltha

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I've always been passionate about what non-profits and advocacy groups can achieve using technology. For me, CiviCRM shows an essential example of how non-profit and technology worlds can come together to provide real change - working as community, creating value for yourself, but also for others in non-profit sector.
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ISHR

http://www.ishr.ch

ISHR is currently in the early stages of implementing CiviCRM, and is finding the customisable aspects of the software to be especially beneficial.
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Giant Rabbit

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Saves us from writing monstrous, custom database apps.
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Arthur Richards

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WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

http://wikimediafoundation.org

At the Wikimedia Foundation, we leverage CiviCRM to maintain millions of records of donors and their contributions. Working with the product and particularly with the community has been a terrific experience. There's nothing quite like two open source organizations working together to meet their respective goals while ultimately strengthening the open source community as a whole.
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Abril Rocabert

Administrator and End-user

http://www.alternativasycapacidades.org

CiviCRM is a powerful tool that could be really useful for many non-profits in Mexico.
Unfortunately the community is very small in my country. I hope that in the next years the community expands around Latin America.
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Progressive Technology Project

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CiviCRM is helping us serve member-based community organizing groups across the
U.S. to keep better track of their events, fundraising, and membership data. It's helping our community to aim higher in terms of what kind of questions they should be asking and what kind of data they should be collecting. We chose CiviCRM because it's the best all-around tool to do what our groups need, AND because it's open source.
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Ginkgo Street Labs

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CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.
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Xavier Dutoit

Developer and Implementor

Tech to the People

http://techtothepeople.com

Over the past 15 years I've been involved in several open source communities.
CiviCRM is without any doubt the one that has the strongest focus in welcoming "newbies" and letting everyone feel at home here. Another impressive feature is the focus on shipping. No matter what you think of CiviCRM today, you are almost sure that there will be a newer and better version in a few months.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation

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I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We switched to CiviCRM so that we could be sure that our membership data stays safe, secure, and private. Now we have control over our CRM and can customize it to work for our needs.
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Circle Interactive

http://www.civisites.com

We help many not for profits implement CiviCRM through consultancy, training, configuration and custom development. Many of them come from a painful world of old Access databases, multiple spreadsheets and even paper. It's really satisfying to
help people move on with a system that's so much in tune with their own ethics of sharing and collaboration. We also 'eat our own dog food' and use Civi in-house for our client records because we love the flexibility and control it gives us.

For us it's important to share code and advice with other members of the community when we can because we know we get it back in help at other times. The community really is awesome and one of the friendliest and undaunting I've come across. We appreciate the huge value of the software to us and our clients so we try to contribute back and make it even better.

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Report on CiviCRM usage, as seen on twitter on more than 2000 tweets

Submitted by xavier on September 10, 2011 - 22:54

Hi,

 

We have continued the research to see how often someone tweeted about organisations that happen to use CiviCRM. We analysed 2023 tweets by 724 users about 175 sites. Not a lot of new sites since last month, but a lot more tweets.

our twitter bot from TTTP (tweet civi) and and some new skills on R allowed us to get more graphs and updated information.

 

What have they tweeted about?

like last month, about 2/3rd of the tweets where about events, much more than donation, petition and profile. On average, each site has 6 tweets about it (median is 3).

 

When have they tweeted ?

So definitely less tweets during the week-end than the rest of the week. We had

Which sites?

Looking at the TLD, that's mostly .org domain names, but as well some geographical ones (ca, nz, fr, eu, de ...). However, the vast majority of the sites seems to be for US organisations.

We kept the most visible sites (more than 10 tweets) to see those using best twitter

 

Mass equality is taking the lead followed by the direct marketing association (presumably given their focus, they know the importance of using twitter) and civicon london helped to boost the number of tweets about civicrm.org itself. If you are from one of the sites that have been more promoted on twitter, could you comment about if it's luck or a strategy (or both)?

As planned, Peter & friends worked on making it easier to add social sharing easier (twitter, Facebook and Google+), and pushed this feature to contribubtion pages, events and improved the one for petition). More blog post soon to introduce this feature.

if you use civicrm and twitter and organise event, do fundraising or have a petition, please could you be sure:

  • you tweet about your events and activitites with a link (at least from time to time)
  • you put in your profile the same domain name as where you host the site?

 

What words?

 

For the next version, I will likely add here event help,join... and the other "big" words in the blocklist and remove them.

 

 

 

And, of course, the mandatory message about how you should Follow me on Twitter

 

 

Comments

Submitted by EdP on September 11, 2011 - 05:36

Hi, I run www.marlowrowingclub.org.uk which made it to your list, and you asked whether it was luck or strategy. I'd like to believe the latter... I've been pushing the many virtues of CiviCRM to the club for a while now mainly with a view to running the membership database side, but it really came into its own when our boathouse burnt down (taking a load of boats with it) at the start of August. We needed to do urgent mass communication (for which CiviMail was great), get as many people as possible signed up to an email newsletter (i.e. joining a Group via a profile) and then launch a fundraising effort to get money to build a new one (i.e. paying via a contribution page and creating personal campaign pages). 

 

We have been pushing the email sign up page and the fundraising page through Facebook, Twitter and increasingly through trackable click throughs on emails (both CiviMail and a third party provider who can do it for individual emails which AFAIK Civi can't). This is clearly a deliberate plan and is working reasonably well so far, so thanks again.

Ed

Submitted by xavier on September 11, 2011 - 07:16

fire, solidarity, membership... heck, could almost be a holywood script! Well, definitely a case study for civicrm it should be ;)

 

If you want, can extract the list of users that tweeted about you if you don't have it already.

 

 

Submitted by EdP on September 12, 2011 - 01:13

Happy to do a case study. Let me know what you need. Ed