Rooty Hollow is excited to announce the release of our Constant Contact Integration module for CiviCRM. If you are not able or willing to deal with sending bulk e-mails form your host this module is for you.
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March 14, 2011
By jcm55 Filed under CiviEvent, Case studies and user storiesWe're a small children's theatre company and make great use of Google Analytics. We use CiviCRM/CiviEvent for our patron database and online ticket sales, and wanted to add Google Analytics ecommerce tracking to track the effectiveness of our various marketing activities.
I did this by copying /civicrm/templates/CRM/Price/Page/LineItem.tpl into a custom template directory, and adding the tracking code to my custom version. All of our "events" use price sets, and the price options are various ticket categories (child, adult, senior, etc). The code below tracks not only the entire order amount, but also the quantities of individual items in the order.
March 10, 2011
By michalFiled under Here's another double release, fresh and ready, being a perfect opportunity for you to contribute to your favourite Open Source project (How? See "Step up and help out" section of this post):
March 9, 2011
By lobo Filed under CiviConWe held our second CiviCon in Chicago on Monday Mar 7, 2011 at TechNexus. We had an amazing turnout of 100+ community members. CiviCon 2011 was made possible by a great group. I'd personally like to acknowledge and thank the folks who made this possible...
Young-Jin Kim and Matthew Vincenz from emphanos for being such great hosts and coordinating a large part of the logistics for the event. Mary Kay Bianchi and SNTial Technologies for helping with the logistics of the event and sponsoring drinks and food at the after party :) The Gold sponsors: Rooty Hollow, Ninjitsu Web Development, Web Access and CivicActions The Silver and Bronze sponsors for helping make the event happen.March 9, 2011
By lobo Filed under CiviConWe just got back from Chicago where we had an eventful CiviCon 2011 on Mon, Mar 7th. We had more than 100 participants (registration, attendance sheets and name badges managed with CiviEvent) from across various parts of the US and Canada. We also had a successful sponsorship program with 4 Gold Sponsors, 5 Silver Sponsors and 10 Bronze Sponsors (managed by CiviContribute and the CiviEvent discount module). A companion blog post highlights all the wonderful women and men (and organizations) who made this event possible. Some of my personal highlights of the trip:
March 7, 2011
By Stoob Filed under CiviCon
This was my first CiviCon. I missed the chance last year. It was great to meet all the people I have chatted with on the forums and IRC over the last couple of years -- finally. I was gratified to be part of the sessions here. I presented a UI Customization session with Jim from Rooty Hollow; I shared a couple of case studies along with Gregory from CivicActions. Chatting with Lobo, Dave G, Kurund, Ninjitsu Matt and Deepak was fun and interesting.
During CiviCon I reflected both privately and publically about my first introduction to CiviCRM in '08. I've gone from a 'noob in the forums asking dumb questions to someone who knows a little about a lot - but who still knows I have a lot more to know. My personal story about the open-source CiviCRM community is a story of cautious enthusiasm, warm welcomes, giving back, and eventual understanding. I took a leap of faith but it turned out well for me. I encourage others to try the same approach.
February 28, 2011
By michaelmcandrew Filed under MeetupsA lot more that I thought, I found out at a I recent demo of CiviCRM at Simplify ICT, an event hosted in east London to boost the profile of free and open source software at non-profits.
February 25, 2011
By loboFiled under Overview and New Features in CiviCRM v3.4 / v4.0 With the release of 3.4.alpha1, a brief tour of some of the new features and changes in v3.4 / v4.0 is in order. This release had 7 successful Make It Happen Projects. We also had a record number of patches (100+) that were incorporated into this release.
v3.4 and v4.0 have the same set of CMS independent features. v3.4 supports Drupal 6.x and Joomla 1.5.x only. v4.0 supports Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6.x. v3.4 is expected to be the last release to support D6/J1.5. API v3 - The new version 3 API contains the standardisation that many of us have been hanging out for. The names of the function files and the functions have been standardised as have the inputs and outputs. There is a new wrapper function: civicrm_api( entity,action,$params ); to make it easier to call. If you have any doubt on how to use it we have developed an API explorer and code generator that is shipped with civicrm and will let you use interactive Thanks to the folks at Progressive Technology Project, we have integrated CiviCampaign with other CiviCRM components, specifically: CiviContribute, CiviMember, CiviEvent, CiviMail and CiviEngage. We've also integrated the PhoneList and WalkList CiviEngage Reports with CiviCampaign, making CiviCampaign more useful for grassroots organizing and political campaigns. We plan on extending and improving CiviCampaign in v4.1 via another Make It HappenFebruary 24, 2011
By michal Filed under Drupal, JoomlaIt's been a while since CiviCRM 3.3 went stable and the world around changed a bit: Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 were released. Since making CiviCRM work with new versions of these two CMSes required some backwards incompatible changes, we're releasing two versions of CiviCRM:
4.0.alpha1 for Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6 3.4.alpha1 for Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we enourage you to install it on your test sites and let us know about any bugs or problems.
There are a few public sandboxes where you can try one (or many) of above versions:
CiviCRM 4.0 on Drupal 7 CiviCRM 4.0 on Joomla 1.6 CiviCRM 3.4 on Drupal 6February 24, 2011
By ErikHommel Filed under MeetupsWe have set a date for the next CiviCRM BeNeLux meetup: Friday 15 April 2011 in the afternoon. More details will follow, but we do expect a demo of the CiviCRM Mobile app (Android and iPhone) from qbSet.
We will also present the new feature on the upcoming 3.4 and 4.0 versions. If there is enough interest, we will focus on the new API v3.
Erik
