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September 8, 2010
By jackaponte Filed under Meetups

At September's meetup Kyle Jaster from Rayogram presented the newly released SimplyCivi Drupal theme, designed as a cleaner, more useful and user-friendly administration theme for CiviCRM.

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September 7, 2010
By shot Filed under CiviPledge, CiviCRM

We just released CiviCRM 3.2.3 – it is now available for download. You can also try it out on our demo site.

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September 6, 2010
By AllenShaw Filed under CiviCRM
At Two Mice and a Strawberry, a client has asked for some customization of the Notes features for Contacts. It happens that these features may also be useful for other objects that use Notes, but at the moment we are primarily interested in getting this working for Contacts. In the CiviCRM forum, I had a short exchange with Lobo about the two primary improvements we're looking at:
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September 5, 2010
By Eileen Filed under CiviCRM

Sometimes I get frustrated with CiviCRM. For all the great features there are problems / limitations that we seem to keep hitting. So, if lots of people want the same things added / fixed why aren’t they being fixed?

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September 2, 2010
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviCRM
With the rise of importance of social networks, and the sheer number of them, there has been development of a number of "listening" tools, which aggregate people's activities/fans/followers/friends and try to produce useful information about what is going on.
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September 1, 2010
By kurund Filed under CiviCRM, Meetups, Sprints, Training
CiviCRM Trainings / Code Sprint: Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - New York: Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM CiviCRM User and Administrator Training - New York : Sep 16, 2010 8:30 AM - Sep 17, 2010 5:30 PM CiviCRM Code and Test Sprint - New York : Sep 18, 2010 9:00 AM Sep 19, 2010 5:30 PM
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August 25, 2010
By Eileen Filed under CiviCRM

We have been looking at whether it is a good idea to use households and thought I would pull together the various things that have been written about households into a bit of a 'where are they at'.

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August 23, 2010
By shotFiled under

Update: Due to an unfortunate error multilingual sites cannot be upgraded to CiviCRM 3.2.2; if you’re running such site please wait for CiviCRM 3.2.3. Single-language sites (regardless of the language they use) should upgrade to CiviCRM 3.2.2 cleanly, and new CiviCRM 3.2.2 installations (both single- and multilingual) should work without a problem.

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August 20, 2010
By GregoryHeller Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

CivicActions is offering a full day CiviCRM User Training in Seattle and in Berkeley.

I'll be conducting the training which is aimed at non-profit staff and consultants who want to learn how to configure, administer and use CiviCRM.

The training program is equally applicable to people who are already using CiviCRM and want to become "power users", as well as people who are interested in evaluating CiviCRM for their organization or clients.

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August 20, 2010
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla
After what seems to be an incredibly long time, we released CiviCRM v3.2 a few weeks ago to good reviews and not too many critical bug reports :). Now that is out of the way, we are starting to plan the feature set for v3.3 We've been fortunate to get a grant from Open Society Institute to help add some features important for Human Right Organizations, specifically for Front Line. We've been working with Front Line for a few years and this grant allows us to target their needs more effectively. Some of the features that are included in this grant are: Extending Address inheritance from Organization to an Individual (or from any contact to any other contact - TBD). Building Advanced Reports and Dashlets for Human Rights Organizations First version of Logging
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