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september 19, 2011
By StoobFiled under

If you are using Drupal 6, you have a vested interest in extended Drupal 6 support for CiviCRM 3.4 until spring 2012. If you are staying with Drupal 6 because of budgetary reasons or because Drupal 7 doesn't yet support all the modules you need for your site, this is vital for you. You will make sure your 3.4 CiviCRM/Drupal 6 setup remains healthy and safe.

Please donate here, if you haven't already.

 

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september 19, 2011
By davem Filed under CiviCRM

Last Friday we had the first CiviCRM marketing meeting on irc. Nine people contributed and a couple more were unable to attend due to being on trains or planes. It felt like a good starting point and some encouraging thoughts came out of it. This is a quick synopsis.

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september 15, 2011
By jamie Filed under CiviCampaign

CiviEngage is a Drupal module that (in the next release of CiviCRM) automatically configures CiviCampaign to make it easier to get up and running by setting many of the configuration tasks with sensible defaults.

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september 13, 2011
By AllenShaw Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal
At NS Web Solutions, we recently got a chance to work on a cool project for one of Pogstone's clients. Thanks to this client's generosity, we expect soon to release a Drupal module which will provide a feed of each user's assigned activities in iCalendar format, ready to be subscribed to from with Google Calendar and/or Outlook.   Key features Here's a short list of what you can expect from this module:
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september 12, 2011
By avaguilar Filed under CiviCRM

Ah yes, next April 2012 is NTEN again and voting is open to vote for sessions you'd like to see at NTEN.   There are 2 fantastic sessions, so please support the CiviCRM community and vote:

 

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september 10, 2011
By xavier Filed under CiviCon, CiviCRM

Hi,

 

We have continued the research to see how often someone tweeted about organisations that happen to use CiviCRM. We analysed 2023 tweets by 724 users about 175 sites. Not a lot of new sites since last month, but a lot more tweets.

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september 9, 2011
By petednz Filed under CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMember

A couple of issues have begun to sting us repeatedly and I see others raising same issue.

 

#1

Getting a Default Header/Footer used in the SysTplMsgs

 

SysTplMsgs (System Template Messages) are found here /civicrm/admin/messageTemplates?reset=1)

 

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september 6, 2011
By xavier Filed under CiviCampaign, CiviCase, CiviEvent, CiviMail, API, Case studies and user stories, CiviCon

Hi,

Two weeks already since civicon, the dust has settled and Amy Dobbs and the team at skillmatters have filmed and uploaded the sessions.

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september 5, 2011
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, Interface and design, Sprints

Over the past few years the administration menu has grown quite a bit. Although I use it quite often, I find that I'm sometimes unsure where to look for a particular configuration option. We've heard the same comments  from both experienced and new users - so Xavier Dutoit and I thought it would be a good idea to take a stab at re-working the menu structure. The goals of the re-organization are:

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september 4, 2011
By colemanw Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Extensions

Like many others who have no doubt gone before me, I found myself spending a large chunk of time this week finding and merging duplicate contacts. Civi's deduping UI has gotten a lot better lately, and I love having the ability to go through it more quickly than before. But deduping is only as good as the queries it runs, and of course prevention is better than cleanup.

Here are some observations of how all those dupes in my DB got created:

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