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december 28, 2021
By joshFiled under

Just a quick heads up that the next Community Round Table will be on 18 January 2022. These are intended to be informal community meetings (open to all) with the Core Team and Community Council. There's no formal agenda, however typcially it looks something like:

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december 23, 2021
By mark.armstrong Filed under CiviEvent, CiviCRM, Extensions

No two events are alike. From conferences to performances, the need for event registration is as different as the activities. That’s why Skvare’s expert developers have contributed the Event Registration Button Label extension for CiviCRM.

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december 20, 2021
By mark.armstrong Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal

People are at the heart of any organization, whether it’s volunteers, students, or clients, and getting the most out of your technology can help organize them to better accomplish your goals.

Drupal websites have leveraged the power of webforms through the CiviCRM Webform module to gather user information, for scheduling and other automated jobs. The one thing missing — user account creating.

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december 18, 2021
By EileenFiled under

CiviCheer

Join us for a timezone-appropriate drink next week!

This is just gonna be a fairly impromptu catch up to shoot the breeze and acknowledge the seasons festitivies. Silly hats, Christmas sweaters = optional. We would love to see you there!

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december 16, 2021
By jaapjansmaFiled under

Yesterday we had a second video call about the future of caldera. Main question was how can we collaborate together whilst supporting clients who are currently using caldera and who can not migrate easily within a short time.

Most of us had clients who are using Caldera Forms plugin and those forms are not easily rebuild in another tool (if there was another tool available, more on that later).

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december 10, 2021
By AlanDixon Filed under Security

Security for your CiviCRM install is important, especially this time of the year. Because of two recent, massively exploited vulnerabilities in Wordpress, I'm posting this with some simple advice for small organizations that might not think they can do anything about security, or that it might not affect them.

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december 3, 2021
By jaapjansmaFiled under

At the end of this month the wordpress plugin Caldera Forms will be end-of-life. Meaning that the maintainer behind this plugin won't provide any official updates anymore.

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december 2, 2021
By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

CiviCRM version 5.44.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience:

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november 24, 2021
By nicolFiled under

We know CiviCRM is great for receiving payments in – be it donations, ticket sales or members

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november 23, 2021
By KarinGFiled under

Imagine you have a ‘contact us’ or 'sign-up for our newsletter' or 'register for our next event' form on your website. How much time would you save if each webform submission would be automatically recorded in your CiviCRM database? What if you could automatically dispatch emails, renew memberships, add contact tags, etc. as that data is being saved? Full website CiviCRM integration provides organizations with an opportunity to optimize their workflows and significant time savings.

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