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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.11 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the sixth beta 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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By joshFiled under

It’s amazing that we’re talking about CiviCRM in 2016. First, because it’s 2016… how time flies! And second, because we’re still pushing CiviCRM forward after 11 years! This year does mark a big change for CiviCRM, however.

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By colemanwFiled under

The Core Team is very happy to announce that CiviCRM version 4.7 will be released on January 27th. Packed with both fixes and new improvements, 4.7 is the culmination of a lot of hard work and dedication from the community. If you’ve not demo’d it yet, check it out.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Is your New Year’s resolution to better manage and make use of CiviCRM?  Why not learn new skills and best practices by participating in on-line CiviCRM courses taught by Cividesk!

We offer the following:

·         New user “basics” classes which provide a general overview of a particular module during two hours

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By andie Filed under API, CiviEvent, Extensions, WordPress

Last week was a busy one for the CiviEvent Widget plugin for WordPress.  Not only did it cross the 2,000 download threshold, but new features were added to help you display upcoming events in a flexible way.

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By totten Filed under Community, Tips
If you're working on a site with CiviCRM v4.6.5+ and rely on StackExchange, IRC, JIRA, or other community media for support, then you should consider making an anonymized site profile.  You can prepare one with a few clicks and paste it into any support requests.  This will provide a report of key technical details (such as the exact versions of CiviCRM, PHP, MySQL) which may assist others in diagnosing your problem.
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By stephen.bestbier@iatspayments.com Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community

I have always been passionate about the nonprofit sector, and I had the chance to continue growing this passion when I joined iATS Payments in 2012 as iATS is a payment processor working exclusively with nonprofits. 

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By ErikHommel Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviMember
1. What was the ambition when you started with CiviCRM?

Automating membership administration, event management en managing our donors.  We also wanted to combine our data from memberships, events, donations and relations so it would be easier to maintain and share our knowledge. Finally we wanted a link between the forms on our website and our CRM system.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that the fifth beta 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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