Blogs tagged "CiviDay"

For the fourth year in a row, Denver has had a growing and thriving CiviDay co-organized by Cividesk and Teaming 4 Technology. We welcomed nearly 45 attendees for an all-day event in the beautiful venue at the Mile High United Way.

The day began with an informative presentation about the Vision and Ecosystem of CiviCRM presented by Cividesk. Then the participants split up in three different tracks with one track for new users or users evaluating CiviCRM, one track for current users and a technology track for more  technical users.

Both Cividesk and Upleaf presented sessions in the morning. Then after lunch we continued full speed ahead in the afternoon with 2 different training...

For the second time around, CiviDay was celebrated Cologne. Most of the twelve attendants were interested newbies and folks looking for a suitable CRM for their organisation.

The "hot topics" of the evening were:

• CiviCRM introduction and feature overview
• First steps and implementation pitfalls
• Hosting solutions
• Challanges and advantages of open source software
• Security aspects
• ...and, of course, the CiviCRM community!

Björn and Thomas of SYSTOPIA were trying not to leave any question unanswered...

Mit so einem großen Andrang haben wir nicht gerechnet: Bei 15 Teilnehmer.innen aus 10 verschiedenen Organisationen mussten wir sogar noch Stühle aus dem Nachbarraum dazuholen!

Beim ersten CiviCRM-Treffen in Sachsen war die Resonanz deutlich größer als erwartet: Es kamen nicht nur Nutzerinnen und Nutzer, die wir schon kannten - sondern auch solche, von denen wir gar nicht wussten, dass sie CiviCRM einsetzen. Und dazu eine Reihe von CiviCRM-Interessierten, die die Gelegenheit zum Kennenlernen genutzt haben.

Zum Einstieg gab es einen Überblick zur aktuellen Situation anhand einer Präsentation von CiviCRM Community Manager Michael McAndrew...

Well, ok, not quite but I’m hoping that anyone who’s used CiviMail and message templates in anger will relate to the need for change and how CiviMail can become an asset rather than the elephant in the room.

So let’s start at the beginning, Beatrice donates time to ACME Incorporated Chairty Arm also known as “Cheese For All”. She’s a marketing person and would really like to start putting together some engaging email content for Cheese For All, who made the right decision with both Beatrice and CiviCRM. She’s used Mailchimp in the past and has an expectation of what a mailing tool should allow her to do, so she walks in on Monday morning, ready to make a difference to Cheese for All, armed with her hot breakfast and a chocolate bar for the tough times. She quickly gets to grips with groups, the concept of mailing and gets stuck in, encouraged by the word “template” that's thrown around in CiviCRM. After digging around for 30 minutes, she soon realises that a...