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By Gast Filed under Interface and design

I figured you'd be as worked up about this as I have been - but rest easy friend-o, 'cause we've got some good medicine coming your way.

 

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By Gast Filed under Extensions

Since Target Integration released CiviSync - CiviCRM Outlook Synchronization Addon in April this year, I have seen a lot of people asking about it and thanks to those who tested it and provided their feedback. Initial CiviSync was developed for CiviCRM version 2.2 and Outlook 2003/2007.

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By Gast Filed under Architecture, Drupal 7

This is a summary of ideas from this forum topic, http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=15983 , and discussion should continue here.

 

I'm working on a CiviCRM/Drupal installation for an organization that puts on workshops and houses and feeds people for the duration of the workshops.  CiviCRM's built-in way of handling price sets as flat lists of options and prices, doesn't quite do what we want.

 

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WeGov has recently launched a state and congressional "contact congress" tool that is integrated into CiviCRM.

 

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By Gast Filed under Meetups

This past Monday, the 18th of October 2010, a group of about 10 people gathered for Toronto's fifth ever CiviCRM Users' Group Meetup. The turnout was up significantly from last month, and we look forward to growing the local community even more. In future, we'll make sure to post clear and detailed directions to the location to ensure everyone who wants to come can find us!

 

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By Gast Filed under Drupal 7

Over the last year rayogram has worked with the New York State Senate to deploy a customized version of CiviCRM 3.2 for each Senate office. In the course of this work, we developed a custom theme for NYSS that leverages much of the template work that we did for the CiviCRM 3.2.

 

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By Gast Filed under Meetups

At September's meetup Kyle Jaster from Rayogram presented the newly released SimplyCivi Drupal theme, designed as a cleaner, more useful and user-friendly administration theme for CiviCRM.

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By Gast Filed under Drupal 7

CivicActions is offering a full day CiviCRM User Training in Seattle and in Berkeley.

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By Gast Filed under CiviCampaign
I'm very thrilled and excited to announce that, we will introduce CiviCampaign as a Core CiviCRM component for Campaign functionality in CiviCRM v3.3 With the help of CiviCampaign we could effectively use CiviCRM for Voter Canvassing. It allows you to define a group of contacts for canvassing who are voters for a survey. We are storing report of each voter interview with lots of flexibility.
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