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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk is offering our Fundamentals of Event Management class for new users on Wednesday May 22nd at 3 pm MDT (Denver) and for our friends on the other side of the globe, this class starts on Thursday, May 23rd at 7 am AEST (Sydney).  

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Are you interested in effectively managing your volunteers in CiviCRM? 

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By colemanw Filed under Form Builder, Architecture, Extensions

With generous support from the community funding our first Form Builder Make-it-happen campaign, Tim Otten & Coleman Watts have begun regular code sprints for phase 1 of the Form Builder project. The extension is evolving rapidly, but I wanted to take a break from development for a few minutes to update you on what we've accomplished so far and where we go from here.

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By Anónimo Filed under Members

Josh nicely asked me to drop some words about the relationship Greenpeace in Central and Eastern Europe (GP) has with CiviCRM. I believe today is a good day to praise CiviCRM!

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By mattwire Filed under CiviContribute, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

Accept Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash (BCH/BTC) payments using bitpay (https://bitpay.com/) through CiviCRM.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Are you new to CiviCRM and would like to learn the basics of managing your contacts? 

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By josh Filed under Extended Security Release, Release announcements

If you’re not already aware, CiviCRM version 5.13 shipped this past Wednesday. In addition to this being the normal monthly release of the latest stable version of CiviCRM, it will also serve as the next version of CiviCRM ESR, officially in August. Finally, CiviCRM version 5.13 will be the last version of CiviCRM to support PHP 5.6.

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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk is offering the online training session, "Organizing a Membership Renewal Campaign" on Wednesday May 1st from 9 to 11 am MT/ 11 to 1 pm ET. 

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By jaapjansma Filed under Development Tools, Extensions, Interface and design

Have you ever wished you could configure the actions you can perform after a search in CiviCRM?

It is now possible to do this with the Search Action Designer extension.

An example use case

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By jamie Filed under Drupal 7, Extensions

Long, long ago, before we had indoor plumbing, penicillin or `civix generate:module`, a humble drupal module was born. It tried its best to be helpful by employing an (at the time) cutting edge technique known as CRM_Utils_Migrate_Import to dump a motley collection of custom fields, profiles and options into your CiviCRM database.

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