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I’m really excited to announce that I will be running two CiviCRM user trainings in September and October. Back in March and April I was involved in two similar trainings, one with Dave Greenberg from CiviCRM at the NTC, and the other during the workshop day before DrupalCon in San Francisco. The feedback from both trainings was really positive.
We often hear the question, “What email service provider do you recommend?” from clients, prospective clients, or even just friends. For those using CiviCRM we recommend using the built in CiviMail in conjunction with an SMTP service like CiviSMTP to handle deliverability issues. But for those not using CiviCRM the answer is always a tricky one to arrive upon because there are so many different variables to consider: volume, pricing, east of use, reporting, and on and on.
A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money . She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP . This being just one reason of many to move your money from a big bank like Chase, she decided it was time. Many of us at CivicActions bank with local banks or credit unions and the responses to her query brought many stories of others who had either recently or long been banking with credit unions.
Idealware just released a report on their survey of nearly 500 nonprofit professionals regarding their use of social media and their perceptions of the efficacy of various social media channels.
Last week I wrote about some recent press coverage for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new website for the Human Origins Program and the related new exhibit in Washington, DC.
The Smithsonian Institution’s new website for the Human Origins Program is featured on the Voice Of America website as Website Of The Week . The site, which launched in March to coincide with opening of the David H.
So read the headline of a New York Time’s article a few weeks back , you probably saw some coverage of the dizzying slide showing linkages between various constituencies in Afganistan. Without going any further into that slide, or the article about it and the relationship of PowerPoint and military strategy, I’d like to highlight some ideas about slides and presentations.
There seems to be growing interest in CiviCRM in Seattle. People want to know more about what it is, how it works and how they can harness the power for their clients or their own organizations.
It’s a week and a day since the first ever CiviCon concluded. I’ve had a chance to encode and post all the videos from the Ingite and Lighting Talks (see below), and wanted to share just a few thoughts. There were over 70 people at CiviCon, nearly double the number at the first DrupalCon (5 years ago). Both firsts took place 5 years after the project launched. There were some jokes as we left the Michell Kapor Center about how big CiviCon will be in 5 years. The opportunity to meet with so many great people working with CiviCRM was fantastic, and for me, it was the first time I had met folks from the Core team other than Dave Greenberg and Donald Lobo. I look forward to future CiviCon and meeting more people working with the software. To that end I am going to convene a Seattle Area CiviCRM User Group (SEACUG), the first meeting of which will be announced shortly (it will be at the end of May).
At DrupalCon in San Francisco I sat on a panel “ From Contractor To Shop ” hosted by Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg from Zivtech .