Blog posts by Névtelen

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By Névtelen Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community, Joomla, WordPress

When I started using CiviCRM almost 5 years ago, I was amazed at how many things it could bring to a website right out of the box. The more I used it, the more I wanted to, and saw potential beyond simply keeping contact information, collecting donations, or managing events. CiviCRM is a game-changer. It was shortly after getting into a couple of large projects that the shine started to wear off just a little.

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By Névtelen Filed under Meetups

On Thursday, October 30th Web Access, Lighthouse Consulting and Design, and The Association Development Group (ADG) hosted the first ever Albany area CiviCRM meetup. Since this was the first of its kind in the area we were unsure of what to expect. We could not have been more pleased at how the event unfolded. 

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By Névtelen Filed under Case studies and user stories
(adapted from “Jumping to Civi Under The Gun”, CiviCon 2014 presentation)   Music Nova Scotia is a non-profit organization that has worked since 1989 with a mandate to encourage the creation, development, growth and promotion of Nova Scotia’s music industry. Music Nova Scotia exists to grow and nurture the Nova Scotia music industry, to retain our own natural resource and promote investment, by:
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By Névtelen Filed under GSoC, Drupal 7, Drupal 8+

As part of the Google Summer of Code, I began work on getting CiviCRM and the upcoming Drupal 8 working together nicely. I made an update about midway through and it's time for another update. I had separated the project into a number of milestones. Phases 1, 2 and 3 dealt with varying aspects of the core CiviCRM module functionality.

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By Névtelen Filed under CiviCase, Drupal 7, Make it happen

A little background.

Established in 1972, we are a non-profit human services organization that serves many diverse populations in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

A large part of our focus is on homeless services, but we also do some mental and physical health programming, early childhood development, community integration and host a large food pantry near the University of Pittsburgh campus. 

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By Névtelen Filed under Training

Ces sessions collectives sont destinées à de nouveaux utilisateurs de CiviCRM, ou à des utilisateurs ponctuels souhaitant rafraichir leurs connaissances.

Elles durent 2 heures, et laissent un temps de Questions/Réponses sur la formation.

La session sur les Contacts est un pré-requis pour la session sur les Evénéments.

Pour plus de renseignements, et pour vous inscrire en ligne : 

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By Névtelen Filed under CiviEvent, Documentation, Sprints

After the excitement of CiviCon with new features and extensions being discussed, the Civi Sprinters are hard at work improving and finalising these for release, as well as discussing future plans. 

However not all of us can bask in the glory of cool features and improvements. The documentation team have been hard at work attempting to improve the Civi Book.

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By Névtelen Filed under Case studies and user stories, Marketing and Promotion, Tips

Chicago agency SocialRaise explains how to combine a $120,000 Google Grant with the power of CiviCRM. Imagine having an online marketing budget of $120,000 handed to your organization. That, in combination with landing pages created with CiviCRM and the tools to segment and organize your communications, will enable your nonprofit to reach more people, increase volunteers and drive fundraising efforts.

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