With the rise of importance of social networks, and the sheer number of them, there has been development of a number of "listening" tools, which basically aggregate people's activities/fans/followers/friends and try to produce useful information about what is going on.

CiviCRM Trainings / Code Sprint:

• Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - New York: Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM
• CiviCRM User and Administrator Training - New York : Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM
• CiviCRM Code and Test Sprint - New York : Sep 18, 2010 9:00 AM Sep 19, 2010 5:30 PM

We have been looking at whether it is a good idea to use households and thought I would pull together the various things that have been written about households into a bit of a 'where are they at'.

CivicActions is offering a full day CiviCRM User Training in Seattle and in Berkeley.
I'll be conducting the training which is aimed at non-profit staff and consultants who want to learn how to
configure, administer and use CiviCRM.The training program is
equally applicable to people who are already using CiviCRM and want to
become "power users", as well as people who are interested in evaluating
CiviCRM for their organization or clients.The agenda will be finalized based on participant mix. Topics may include:

After what seems to be an incredibly long time, we released CiviCRM v3.2 a few weeks ago to good reviews and not too many critical bug reports :). Now that is out of the way, we are starting to plan the feature set for v3.3

We've been fortunate to get a grant from Open Society Institute to help add some features important for Human Right Organizations, specifically for Front Line. We've been working with Front Line for a few years and this grant allows us to target their needs more effectively. Some of the features that are included in this grant are:

• Extending Address inheritance from Organization to an Individual (or from any contact to any other contact - TBD).
• Building Advanced Reports and Dashlets for Human Rights Organizations
• First version of Logging

Hi all,

We probably all have the same problem: the same contact is present several times in our CRM.

When working in setting up and developing websites (among other things) we often have to choose between getting stuck in and getting stuff done the known way or trying to invest time in coming up with a more automated way or efficient way of doing things. Usually at some point we become aware of whether we made the right choice – and I find that moment is normally accompanied by a certain sinking feeling.

I have created 2 custom searches at that I find useful for finding upcoming birthdays and wedding anniversaries. Hopefully these are useful for other folks too.

The new searches can be downloaded from:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/x/WgDvAQ

I have been working on integrating discount system in civicrm for a project. I came across a good blog http://civicrm.org/node/566 and implemented it as it is. Then i customized it for role based discounts and many other discounts possibilities. But now i have a requirement to provide a front end to manage coupons as:

1. Add/Delete Coupons
2. Set beginning/expiry date & time for coupon codes
3. Set how many times each coupon code can be used
4. Track coupon code usage on who, when, why and for what purpose it was used.
5. Create sets of random coupon codes with customizable patterns

We are excited to announce that the first BETA release of version 3.2 is now available for download. You can also try it out on our sandbox site. Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites.

This release includes several major new features/highlights:

• Usability improvements - Better looking and more intuitive Contact Summary Page. The new "Actions" button provides 1-click access to most contact-related forms. New clean and consistent icons have been implemented to provide helpful visual cues. You can now get a configurable contact summary pop-up from search results by mousing over the contact icon on any row. We'll be blogging with more details on these usability features during the release cycle.
• Support for PHP 5.3 -This release supports PHP 5.3.
• CiviCase Phase 3 - Thanks to the Physicians Health Program folks for pushing CiviCase to the next level! You can check out the phase 3 enhancements here.
• CiviEvent workflow improvements - Streamlining the workflow for events, providing 1-click access to event related screens from the configuration panel, and generating event name badges. For more details check CRM-6230 and CRM-6294.
• Free-tagging, and Tags for Cases and Activities - You can add one or more free-tagging "taxonomies" - called Tagsets - for use with contacts, cases and / or activities. You can also specify which tags can be used for which types of records.