CiviCon 2025 kicks off with a two-day Admin Training, May 19th and 20th, aimed at folks much like yourself, who need to manage CiviCRM on a day-to-day basis.
We're happy to announce the lineup of speakers and topics for this Training.
Your Presenters:
Noah Miller
Noah is a CiviCRM consultant and frequent contributor of improvements to the software. He studied cognitive science and music as an undergrad, then jumped into the world of nonprofit science journalism, where he built his first Drupal websites and CRM databases. He founded a project called outLoud Radio in 2002 to support LGBT+ youth in empowering themselves by telling their stories, and grew the organization over the next 12 years. For the last decade, drawing on his experience using CiviCRM and website platforms for his own social justice nonprofit, he has been helping other organizations get the most out of these powerful technologies. (CiviCRM Community Chat: @noah; Find Noah on LinkedIn)
Allen Shaw
Allen has been helping ambitious organizations meet their development goals with professional CRM solutions since 2001, first with custom-built CRM tools, and now – for over 15 years – focusing on CiviCRM as a platform that's built from the ground up for community-driven organizations. Allen is a regular contributor of improvements to CiviCRM, the Group Lead for the CiviCRM Extensions Working Group, and the author of the Mastering CiviCRM Crash Course 10-day email course. He also publishes daily mailings to his subscribers as a zero-cost source of inspiration, insights, and stories from the trenches for non-profit leaders. (CiviCRM Community Chat: @twomice; Find Allen on LinkedIn)
Ben Walpole
Ben is a freelance developer and member of the CiviCRM Core Team. He learned the ropes of CiviCRM while working in-house for a small public health charity, and has since worked with a range of UK campaigning/community groups. In his work with the CiviCRM Core Team he has been focused on the new ChartKit tool for no-code visualisations of CiviCRM data; and the relaunch of CiviCRM Standalone as a simpler option for deploying sites. (CiviCRM Community Chat: @ufundo)
Stuart Gaston
Stoob isn't a cat, but he is Stuart Gaston, with 17 years experience building CiviCRM and website solutions for nonprofits as an employee and self-employed contractor. He's also spent 10+ years as a teacher and is the member of the CiviCRM Core Team responsible for the creation of most of CiviAcademy — the online video tutorial service helping users get the most out of CiviCRM. (CiviCRM Community Chat: @stoob)
Program:
The Admin Training program lays out the major components and most common use cases for CiviCRM’s diverse features, covered in an orderly structure, with a mix of live demonstration, discussion, and hands-on exercises for participants.
Day 1, May 19th
09:00 - 09:15 Arrival with coffee
09:15 - 09:30 Introductions and ice-breakers
09:30 - 10:30 Session 1: Introduction to CiviCRM
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Organizing Data
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:15 Session 3: Custom data: organization and usage
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch (provided on-site)
13:30 - 14:00 Session 4: Finding data (Reports, Searches, SearchKit)
14:00 - 15:00 Session 5: Contribute management
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 6: Event management
16:15 - 16:30 Closing Session
16:30 - 17:00 Extra time, to be used for 1-on-1 assistance and answering questions raised so far
Day 2, May 20th
09:00 - 09:15 Arrival with coffee
09:15 - 09:30 Brief recap of Day 1
09:30 - 10:30 Session 7: Duplicate contact management
10:30 - 11:30 Session 8: Communications: mass mailings, scheduled reminders, message templates, etc.
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:45 Session 9: Membership management
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch (provided on-site)
14:00 - 15:00 Session 10: SearchKit and FormBuilder: Advanced searching and data intake
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 11: SearchKit and Charting: Data analysis and visualization
16:15 - 16:45 Session 12: Flexible breakouts: small groups on specific topics of interest to the group
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Session
If that all sounds awesome to you, you can still register online, for both the Admin Training on May 19-20, and for the main CiviCon event itself on May 21-22.
