Blog posts by andyburns

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CiviCRM Lighthouse Navigation MIH

If you've opened up CiviCRM and think, “Where do I go to find that?” you are not alone.

In recent user feedback, people told us:

The interface is dated compared to other CRM products.

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By andyburns Filed under Make it happen

CiviCRM multisite allows separate sites to access the same CiviCRM database with segmented data access, with each site having its own website. Great for chapter, regional, or multi-brand organizations that need some shared infrastructure while still separating parts of their configuration or access. 

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By andyburns Filed under Community, Marketing and Promotion

There’s many ways the CiviCRM project continuously gets feedback: from clients working with CiviCRM partners, people posting GitLab issues, or conversations in the Mattermost chat. 

But right now, we’d like to step back and revisit with a more holistic angle of where end user organizations are at via a short 5-10 minute survey.

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By andyburnsFiled under

As part of a wider range of improvements funded by the Libertarian Party, the call next dashlet (CND) is now public. The CND extension was created to get volunteers calling people immediately, with little to no training. It doesn't require assigning the call to anyone either. For volunteer organizations, a constant challenge is assigned the 'right' number of calls to a volunteer. It is hard to know.

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