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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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.
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
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'.
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.
CivicActions is offering a full day CiviCRM User Training in Seattle and in Berkeley.
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
I'm very thrilled and excited to announce that, we will introduce CiviCampaign as a Core CiviCRM component for Campaign functionality in CiviCRM v3.3
With the help of CiviCampaign we could effectively use CiviCRM for Voter Canvassing.
It allows you to define a group of contacts for canvassing who are voters for a survey. We are storing report of each voter interview with lots of flexibility.
I have developed very basic iphone app for CiviCRM using Titanium framework.
Tokens are used in CiviCRM to create mail merges in much the same way as, for example, Microsoft Office. They are currently implemented in (at least) four places in CIviCRM: 'CiviMail', 'Send Mail to Contacts', 'Create PDF Letter' and 'Create Mailing Labels'. Out of the box Civi comes with a decent set of tokens, including tokens for all the address fields. One thing it doesn't do is provide a token that correctly formats an address block taking account of when fields aren't present. For example, if i used the following address tokens for my address:
