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By RoseLanigan Filed under CiviCamp, Training

As part of the UK CiviCamp event in October, we are also offering two-day Administrator Training and two-day Residential Developer Training on CiviCRM.

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements
This latest CiviCRM 5.3 release is now ready to download. Please also note the important information for the upcoming security release.   RELEASE NOTES: Big thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version.  The release notes for 5.3 can be accessed here.   SPECIAL THANKS:
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By claireandaidan@hotmail.com Filed under Community

Another bright and breezy day in Edinburgh for our 3rd meet up; a brilliant afternoon programme and we were a good mix of non-users, users and our expert developer Marcus.  

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By genadellett Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviContribute, CiviMail

Just because your nonprofit's email communications are interesting to you (the person who most likely created them!) doesn't mean they will be interesting to your community. Is your call to action clear? Is your imagery inspiring and connected to your content?

Remove the guesswork from your email marketing strategy by using CiviCRM's A/B email testing feature.

Through A/B testing you can evaluate:

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By genadellett Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCampaign, CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMail, CiviReport

Your nonprofit doesn't have just one fundraising strategy. You have many. Think events, donor letters and appeals, e-newsletter blasts, planned giving, and capital campaigns. Each of these strategies typically targets a specific segment of your community, even if the funds raised impact the same budget line.

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By genadellett Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviContribute

We all give to causes because we care, but we may care more about the person who's asking us than the cause our money is going to. That's completely fine and completely normal. Nowadays nearly one-third of all online donations come from peer-to-peer campaigns, which are especially effective for Millenials and Gen X. 

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By ErikHommel Filed under Extensions, Sprints

CiviRules 2.0 is now available for you all!

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements
This first CiviCRM release this summer is now ready to download.   RELEASE NOTES: Big thanks to Andrew Hunt from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version.  The release notes for 5.2.1 can be accessed here.   SPECIAL THANKS:
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By everykittysdaydream Filed under Development Tools, GSoC

Hi everyone! I'm Andy, and I'm working on the OSDI integration project for GSoC 2018. If you want more information about what this project is all about, check out the GitLab here. The source code is here. The OSDI standard is a set of standards for interoperability between products in progressive movements.

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By ErikHommel Filed under Extensions

I have just published the Invoice Address API (https://civicrm.org/extensions/invoice-address-api).

The development of the extension was funded by Domus Medica vzw. They are a membership organization specifically for GP's (general practitioner) in Flanders and Brussels.

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