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April 25, 2011
By JoeMurray Filed under CiviCampaign, CiviCase, CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMail, CiviMember, CiviPledge, CiviReport, CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, Meetups, Schools, Teams, Training

Eli Beckerman is the second winner of a copy of Using CiviCRM from Packt Publishing. Eli is excited about the potential of CiviCRM to organize bottom-up transformations to deal collaboratively with the many crises facing the world today.

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April 22, 2011
By theMusician Filed under Case studies and user stories

Our existing system for managing the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) tracking requirements has worked well for several years. With new state level requirements being issued the lack of flexibility of our current system became apparent. Looking at vendor solutions appeared to stick us with extremely robust applications whereas we need functionality for just a few state and federal laws.

 

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April 21, 2011
By twojtyniak Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM

Thinking it would simplify things, I decided to try to set up CiviCRM on my personal Mac (running 10.6.7, or Snow Leopard) so I could do some learning and testing before messing up the server. I did three searches: "OS X", "Mac", and "standalone".

 

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April 20, 2011
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla

After months of development we’re more than happy to announce the concurrent release of CiviCRM 3.4.0 and 4.0.0, the first stable CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0 releases! Both versions are now available for download. You can also try it out on the public demos: Drupal 6 / Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.5 / Joomla 1.6 sites. We strongly recommend going through 3.4/4.0 highlights post, where you will find out what’s new and hot in this release. The newest CiviCRM versions are:

4.0.0 for Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 3.4.0 for Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5
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April 20, 2011
By Slovak Filed under Meetups

Join the next meeting of the Dallas / Fort Worth CiviCRM Meetup group on May 4, 2011 at 7:00 PM.

 

You have installed CiviCRM, imported and edited data. Join us for a presentation of the best modules and practices to integrate CiviCRM with your CMS system. Hear the latest on CiviCRM 4.0, bring your questions, your tips, and your passion.

 

RSVP through our Meetup page.

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April 16, 2011
By colemanw Filed under Drupal

The Drupal core contact module provides a no-frills way for users to email you via a simple webform. If you like that module, but would also like those form submissions to be recorded in CiviCRM, then this no-frills extension is for you.

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April 15, 2011
By ErikHommel Filed under Meetups

We had a good CiviCRM meetup in Apeldoorn today, hosted by De Goede Woning. Willem Peters from qbset (http://www.qbset.nl) showed the first version of qbMobile, a native iPhone/Android app that he is developing for a specific customer.

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April 15, 2011
By xavier Filed under API, CiviCRM

Have you ever clicked a few zillion time on the admin interface to create a lot of groups, tags, values for a custom field... ?

Have you ever screamed having to do the same tedious tasks you did on the staging one more time on the production site?

Have you cursed the import wizard after having clicked again and again on the next button ?

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