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February 19, 2012
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Documentation

If you have a look back over the documentation (previously book sprint) blog tag, you'll see that over the past few months we have been making slow and steady improvements to our documentation.  We've moved the books over to CiviCRM.org and clarified the

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February 15, 2012
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, Release announcements, WordPress

The team is excited to announce the first stable release of version 4.1  - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

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February 13, 2012
By Stoob Filed under CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Drupal

There have been several hook() or Drupal module based solutions for "members only" pricing for events or for other 'discounts' related to memberships.

 

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February 11, 2012
By xavier Filed under CiviCase, CiviReport, Case studies and user stories, Drupal

Hi,

So as every consultant, there is a bit of new projects, maintenance, stuff you do for free for the community, new ideas, meetings, pre-sales, funky developments & the dreaded admin part (invoicing/timesheet).

 

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February 10, 2012
By 2020media Filed under Meetups

The meetup was hosted at techhub, in London’s “Silicon Roundabout”, Old Street. Our host for the evening was Michael McAndrew of Third Sector Design, a company specialising in CiviCRM based in techhub.

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February 9, 2012
By annaleevk Filed under CiviMember, Case studies and user stories

Okay, I'm double-posting today in case you don't find this buried in the forum.  My forum posting contains all of the details regarding a custom hack written for a client to automate 7 renewal email reminders based on expire date.

 

I do hope you find this useful.  http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,6176.msg98034.html#msg98034

 

- Annalee

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February 9, 2012
By annaleevk Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

Hey gang sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you but we've been busy slogging through a few outstanding issues.  For those of you who are currently in the throes of your data conversion here are a few quick words of advice.

1. Set up a local site for your data conversion so you don't run into any restrictions on how many records you can import at one time on your server, otherwise, you will spend a lot of time creating many, many small text files.

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February 1, 2012
By parvez Filed under CiviCRM

Hi All

Here at The Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research charity, a lot of events have participants who may be children or where a team leader is booking for all team members. The current implementation of CiviCRM insists on the inclusion of an email address for all participants, which is a problem in the two scenario's. Some of the teams are quite large and each team member has specific settings which need to be captured, such as t-shirt size, route etc.

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January 30, 2012
By xavier Filed under CiviCRM

We have continued the research to see how often someone tweeted about organisations that happen to use CiviCRM. We analysed 5988 tweets by 3478 users about 574 sites.

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January 25, 2012
By kurundFiled under

The team is excited to announce the third beta release for 4.1 with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 1.7/1.6, and the integration with Wordpress 3.3 (wohoooo!!!).

 

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