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By colemanwFiled under

By popular demand, here it is: another exciting release of CiviCRM, with maintenance and stability improvements to give you the best possible CRM. Download CiviCRM 4.4.3 now.

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By jamie Filed under Extensions

Have you ever completed a training a wondered whether usage of your CiviCRM database changed as a result? Have you ever wondered who were the major database users in your organization and who might need more prodding?

The Progressive Technology Project is please to announce that now, with the Database Health Report, you can find out.

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By Dave Greenberg Filed under Community

The holiday season is almost upon us. So we thought we’d round up a top ten of 2013 to highlight what we have achieved as a community this year.  Of course, this is just the tip of the CiviCRM iceberg! We’d love to hear about your achievements in the comments below.

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By capo Filed under Extensions
The Need of Data Integration Tools
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By totten Filed under API, CiviCase, Extensions

CiviCase is generally described as "a container for activities". As a container, it's well-suited to two scenarios:

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By RuchiFiled under

 

The Purpose of CiviHR Recruitment

To me, the effort put in to build any system is worthwhile when it allows organizations to deliver better experiences all around. The CiviHR Recruitment function aims to deliver just that by:

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By ChrisChinchilla Filed under Extensions

This may be a blog post I expand upon later…

I've seen mentions around the interwebs of socialCRM tools for CiviCRM and what I want to know is… Has anyone started any kind of code or prototyping this idea? If not, I may make a start and anyone else interested in lending a hand… Let me know.

Slightly vague in terms of feature set right now, but take a read through the following links to get an idea:

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By Ruchi Filed under Interface and design
India has over 3.3 million registered non-profits (one for every 400 people!), many of which are growing and looking for better solutions to manage their fundraising efforts. There is an immense and exciting opportunity at hand.   
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By Gast Filed under Community, Meetups

At the London Meetup last night, the idea of having a CiviCRM co-working day was discussed, so we are certainly planning to do that in London on CiviDay 2014 (Wednesday, January 29th), and wouldn't it be great if the same pattern could be followed around the world.  The idea would be that the CiviDay Meetup in the evening would be at the same venue as the Co-Working day, ie that we book a venue for the whole day and into the evening, and that the venue has good wi-fi available and access

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By michaelmcandrew Filed under Community

We've been talking for a while now about how we can improve the ways that we recognise the non financial contributions people make to CiviCRM. This topic came up a fair amount when we designed the partner program - lots of people said things along the lines of "we need to make sure the many non financial contributions people make aren't marginalised by the partner program" and while we agreed it was super important, we wanted to put it on hold until we got the partner program up and running.

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