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oktober 13, 2012
By LindseyM Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM

Training courses, youth groups, sports classes, drama clubs… events like this form the bedrock of many non-profit organisations. As CiviCRM can’t yet handle such complex ‘recurring’ events, a new Make It Happen campaign aims to change that.

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oktober 4, 2012
By rajesh Filed under CiviCRM, WordPress

WordPress is the most popular content management systems in the world and CiviCRM is the most popular open source CRM for non-profits and the civic sector. With CiviCRM 4.1 support for Wordpress, Wordpress users were able to use the most powerful CMS + CRM combination ever.      

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oktober 3, 2012
By Jag Filed under CiviCRM, WordPress

Hello There,

I'm pleased to announce the CiviMember Role Sync  Plugin for WordPress is available now.

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oktober 1, 2012
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRM

Hello folks. I am super pleased to say that starting from January 2013 I'm going to have the pleasure of serving for six months as CiviCRM's 'community manager'.

So what is a community manager?

To my mind (though actually, I am using a significant part of Jono Bacon's mind as well here) the following things are key to this role:

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september 27, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the third release of 4.2 stable with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 2.5 and WordPress 3.3.

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september 26, 2012
By ErikHommel Filed under Internationalization and Localization

At the Apeldoorn sprint today we had several discussions about street parsing and what we should do about it. A couple of solutions came up, I spoke first with Joe Murray and Xavier Dutoit. At that point in time using Extensions per street parsing seemed a logical solution. Discussing a little more with Lobo and Tim Otten the idea changed, and perhaps one Extension for international street parsing should be enough.

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september 26, 2012
By micah Filed under CiviContribute, Sprints

Greetings from Apeldoorn at the Netherlands CiviCRM Code Sprint. I've spent the last several months meticulously working with the fundraising team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to build donate pages that look and act beautifully, remove friction from the donation process, and leverage premiums to get bigger donations.

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september 26, 2012
By JoeMurray Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM, Extensions, Internationalization and Localization

Extensions are a growing part of the CiviCRM way of doing things. We need to develop a process and toolset to facilitate getting them translated and making those translations easily installable. This post is intended to lay out some issues and a potential approach in order to generate discussion.

Here are some assumptions and suggestions I have:

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september 25, 2012
By LindseyM Filed under CiviCRM, Extensions

If you want to see how a group has grown over time or view your Civi groups in their hierarchy, check out the new Groups Extension.

 

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