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August 24, 2011
By giantrabbit Filed under CiviEvent, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Drupal

In May, Giant Rabbit relaunched CompassPoint Nonprofit Services’ website and CRM, transitioning them away from a proprietary CMS and CRM to a Drupal/CiviCRM solution.  We came across a lot of unique requirements and challenges throughout the transition process.  This post will focus on one feature that required significant customizations to CiviCRM:  A multiple event registration shopping cart.

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August 23, 2011
By ErikHommel Filed under Meetups

Just one day after arrving back from weeks of holidays I found myself in the train from Brummen (The Netherlands) to London for CiviCon 2011, of which we were proud Silver sponsors. We arrived in time, and it was great to meet my API friends Xavier Dutoit and Eileen McNaughton (who I had never met IRL) and Kurund Jalmi and Yashodha Chaku from the CiviCRM Core team.

 

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August 17, 2011
By gloomcheng Filed under CiviCRM

We found that non-profit organizations/non-government organizations often face the phenomenon of lack of resources and therefore there is not much manpower to manage the

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August 13, 2011
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

CiviCon London is only 1 week away which means it's time to draft a "State of the Project" presentation for the opening session. It's a good time to look up from our computer screens so we can think about and discuss goals for the next few years.

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August 5, 2011
By xavier Filed under Case studies and user stories

Hi,

As a friday follows up of our research on how civicrm powered sites are visible on twitter, we did a casual textmining of the 1022 tweets that contains a link to an event, donation, petition or profile on one of 175 identified sites that use civicrm.

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August 3, 2011
By yashodha Filed under CiviCRM

The team is excited to annouce the release of 3.4.5 and 4.0.5. We strongly recommend reviewing the 3.4/4.0 highlights post, where you will find out what’s new and hot in 3.4/4.0 release in general. This release has 130+ bug fixes and a few improvements, hence we would recommend upgrading to this version. Check here for a detailed list of bug fixes and improvements.

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July 31, 2011
By xavier Filed under CiviCampaign, CiviContribute, CiviEvent, Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

Hi,

We conducted a research to see how often someone tweeted about a page powered by CiviCRM in the past month and a half. We analysed 858 tweets by 612 users about 163 sites, some big names like oxfam or the red cross, some for tiny organisations.

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July 27, 2011
By michaelmcandrew Filed under Training

This August 31st and September 1st we are running two CiviCRM trainings: one for developers and implementors and one for users and administrators.

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