end-user, implementor
consulting/multi
CiviCRM provides a vital tool whereby nonprofits and other social projects can implement strong contact-relationship management capabilities without high monthly fees. It also provides the integration and customization capabilities necessary to make such software useful in the complex, lived reality of doing social engagement work. Plus it continues to build the open source toolset made available to the Commons and grow the common good.
Administrator and End-user
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.
Core Team Member, Developer, Implementor
CiviCRM, Caltha
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.
Developer and Implementor
Tech to the People
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.
Implementor
Palante Technology Cooperative
Palante Tech works with social justice organizations on a tight budget to be more effective through technology. CiviCRM allows us to provide a high-quality low-cost database for community organizing, donor and membership management.
Developer and End-user
Fuzion
CiviCRM has one of the most active and friendliest communities I have come across. From initial tentative forum posts I was encouraged into engaging more actively through IRC and directly with other groups & individuals and am now happy to count many community members as friends. I recently found an article on the web that said if you post a question about CiviCRM anywhere on the web Lobo will post an answer within a few hours. It often feels like that is true.
One of the most valuable way in which the community supports me is by allowing me to bounce my ideas around and often someone is able to suggest an approach which is better than mine.
Implementor
Ginkgo Street Labs
CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.
Implementor, Developer
AGH Strategies
CiviCRM allows our clients to have a robust tool for tracking and engaging their supporters that can grow with them. I began as an end user, and now I work with CiviCRM full-time.
Implementor, Developer
PeaceWorks Technology Solutions
PeaceWorks provides technology solutions for not-for-profit organizations. CiviCRM fills an important niche among our clients who need a flexible, comprehensive, user-friendly, web-integrated CRM solution.
End-user
EFF
The CiviCRM community has been a tremendous resource for new ideas and helping us solve problems. We are excited to contribute customizations EFF makes back to core and support new features such as batch entry for offline donations or multiple payment processors on one donation form.
Implementor, Trainer, Documentator and Developer.
Third Sector Design
CiviCRM helps us help non profits to do fantastic things with their data.
Being closely involved with the developers and documentation team on a daily basis ensures that we can give our clients the best and most up to date advice on how they can use CiviCRM to meet their needs.
DEVELOPER
NS WEB SOLUTIONS
I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the CiviCRM community, both from the core developers and many experienced users who have quickly provided answers and ideas in areas where I just needed that extra insight, or where we needed to do something totally new. After several years working with open source software, I'm finding the CiviCRM community to be the most responsive and helpful I've seen.
We make CiviCRM one of our primary offerings because it just provides so much right out of the box that our clients need, without a line of custom code. And when we need to extend it for the clients' unique needs, the APIs and programming hooks let us add in features that would be impossible in some other systems. This means we can provide great value to our clients with quick turnaround times and reasonable budgets, which is great for our clients and for us.
Comments
Personal Campaign Pages and OpenInviter
Does this patch also work on the "personal campaign page" in the area that the person created the page is invited to tell their friends?
IT WORKS !!!
Hey sarah,
It should definately work there also :)
Actually I tested, it works !!!!
awesome!
do you think this could be feasibly achieved with hooks? would be a great module...
Thanks :)
Thanks kyle,
not sure, but I think we can do it throught the hooks. I personally think, this can be added to core as a project too. Where We can support Importing contacts from Personal email Accounts directly to CiviCRM.
or seperate civi module also can be other way :)
You may also be interested in
You may also be interested in taking a look at Contact Importer module:
http://drupal.org/project/contact_importer
Yes Dalin
Dalin yes, had looked at that module. But as our CiviCRM forms are different from Drupal forms i tried to integrate it seperately.
Interesting
Definitely something that would help spreading the news.
On concern, this system is promoting a bad security habit: giving you login password from gmail or your other mail providers to random sites. I personally wouldn't want to have to explain why you got your email hacked because you did it on another site (bad), while I'm offering you the option to do the same on mine (good ?).
There are better technical solutions where you don't have to give the password, but a bit more cumbersome, and because everyone else seems to be ok to ask the email passwords on every site, why bother ?
Anyway, gauge the risk you are asking your visitors to take and if you conclude it's worthwhile, seems to be a super cool solution.
Looks really Interesting!
Very useful functionality. It would be great if u can do this using a module, which will be very easy to use for the end users ( I dont think creating module for this will be more difficult ). Also another usecase can be "Users can import their contacts in CiviCRM and creates a selected relationship with them".
Let me know if you want to add this too, I am ready to help :)
Thanks Rajan
Thanks rajan, I really appreciate your thought to help :)
Actually the reason I did not went for drupal module is :
I Dont wanted to restrict this functionality only to drupal. I kept in mind, Joomla also :) , as " Tell a friend " functionality is same is drupal and joomla for Event registration, contribution and PCP pages..
impressive one
Its really impressive one and defiantly it will improve Tell Friend Functionality .Also my suggestion is that if we have configuration setting for this while configuring Tell Friend Functionality that will be helpful. Also agree with rajan we can do it more generic for CiviCRM.
Thanks sushant !!
Thanks for valuable inputs :)
Yes i am trying to consider rajan's comments too.