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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk is offering a new online class for more advanced users, in addition to our standard new-user curriculum. “Membership Renewal Campaign with CiviCRM” is a project oriented class that will help with the preparation of your annual membership renewal by teaching the necessary steps in CiviCRM to create a successful campaign.

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By universalhandle Filed under Extensions

Thanks to tremendous support from the CiviCRM community, development of CiviVolunteer 2.0 is well underway, with a beta slated to be released in time for the CiviCRM User Summit in September. Read on for a preview of what CiviVolunteer 2.0 will add to your volunteer management practice.

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By utkarshsharma Filed under GSoC

Hi! I am Utkarsh Sharma, a third year undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. This the final blog post regarding my GSoC project Email Preview Cluster. Tim Otten is my mentor for this project.

My midterm blog post about the project can be seen at

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By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCon

If you've ever wondered how much it costs to put on a CiviCon and the associated trainings and sprint - how much money we take and how we spend it - then this blog post if for you.

Conference

Ticket sales: $11,307Sponsorship: $31,500Total income: $42,807

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements, Security Releases

The latest releases of CiviCRM 4.6 and 4.4 LTS include 2 moderately critical security fixes. While these issues are unlikely to affect the average CiviCRM site, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest version to keep your site as secure as possible.

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By gibsonoliver Filed under CiviCon, Sprints

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By parvez Filed under Case studies and user stories

CiviCRM stumbled into my life back in 2007 when I was evaluating future products for the closed source consultancy who employed me. Who decided to look into open source? Well that was me! I’d been in IT for a while and could see the changes in software were coming, no longer were the niche technology stacks that giants such as Oracle and Microsoft owned proving to barriers, instead open technology and the power of the enthusiast guided by the brilliant were taking shape.

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By jehanley Filed under CiviCon, Community

I’m pleased to report on our next batch of approved User Summit sessions.

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By ErikHommel Filed under CiviContribute, Documentation, Extensions, Tips

I have just completed the first cookbook on CiviRules, with 2 basic examples and an example on how to automatically classify donors based on their contributing behaviour. Have a look, any comment is highly appreciated :-)

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviRules+Cookbook

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is super excited to announce that CiviCRM 4.6.6 is now available for downloading AND you can try it out on the 4.6 demo site.

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