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Noviembre 11, 2015
By cividesk Filed under Case studies and user stories

PermEzone turned to Cividesk for help with a contact management and fundraising system needed to support a pilot program to support permaculture training centers for family farmers in less-industrialized regions of the world. Cividesk offered their help as part of their Giving Back program.

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Noviembre 5, 2015
By cividesk Filed under CiviCRM, Training

Cividesk is offering two NEW on-line classes in November designed for more advanced users of CiviCRM.  Each class is two hours long and class size is kept small to allow for questions.

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Noviembre 3, 2015
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The latest releases of CiviCRM 4.6 and 4.4 LTS include 2 moderately critical security fixes. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version to keep your site as secure as possible.

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Noviembre 2, 2015
By xurizaemon Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community
My name is Chris Burgess, I currently live in Dunedin, Aotearoa and I'm working with Fuzion.
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Octubre 31, 2015
By andie Filed under CiviCRM, Extensions, Tips

Your CiviCRM installation may have undead contacts.  Contacts are marked as deceased in CiviCRM by setting the is_deceased column to 1; living contacts are marked with 0.  However, it's possible for import mistakes to cause contacts to have a value of null for is_deceased.  The result is that the contacts don't appear as dead when you view them, but they're excluded from mailings and other features that filter on is_deceased = 0.

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Octubre 27, 2015
By josh Filed under Sustainability

I've had the opportunity to present the ‘state of CiviCRM’ now at both the recent DC User Summit and at CiviCon London. While we often talk about and evaluate the features and technical capabilities of CiviCRM, we do at times lose sight of its central purpose... the 'why' behind what we do. Going forward,  we hope to keep this front and center in our communications. Why? (I knew you’d ask that)...

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Octubre 26, 2015
By Jessica Sanchez Filed under CiviCon

Stephen Bestbier, VP Marketing and Business Development at iATS Payments, gave a talk on Payment Processing 101 at the CiviCRM User Summit in Washington this past September 2015. Payment processing is an essential part of success in today’s nonprofit sector. However, for those unfamiliar with this process, it can feel daunting.

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Octubre 23, 2015
By andie Filed under Community, Marketing and Promotion, Sprints
I'm excited to provide a final report from the CiviCRM User Summit, which was held in Washington, DC, September 24-25.   The Summit expanded to two days this year, allowing us to increase the number of sessions offered and add an unconference track.
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Octubre 21, 2015
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fifth alpha release of CiviCRM 4.7 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.7 sandbox site!

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Octubre 20, 2015
By Zak Rogoff Filed under CiviCRM, Community

The Free Software Foundation's mission is to promote and defend free software and build a strong movement for computer user freedom. I do communications at the Foundation, and a majority of my work relies on CiviCRM. I'm a Civi power user and know the software intimately (at least the set of extensions we use), so it was exciting to meet the faces behind the software at the User Summit in September.

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