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Ignite NTC 2011 Call For Proposals
CivicActions is tremendously excited for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference (11NTC).
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CivicActions Proud To Sponsor CiviCRM CiviCON 2011 In Chicago
We are proud to once again be sponsors of CiviCON, the annual conference for CiviCRM implementers and developers. Last year’s conference was held in conjunction with DrupalCon in San Francisco, and this year’s will precede DrupalCon in Chicago (which we are also sponsoring).
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Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites
Last month while conducting research for an upcoming report on Foundations and their use of Twitter, we started looking at what Content Management Systems (CMS) were running Foundations’ websites. Our curiosity lead us to look at the top 885 Foundations with websites (based on endowment size), utilizing the Wappalyzer browser plug-in to determine how the…
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CivicActions Sponsoring D7 Release Parties
One of the many benefits of being a distributed company with people around the world is that our team is involved in the Drupal Community in many cities. Today we are going to be celebrating in Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Pittsburgh, Dublin and New Delhi. Not only will we be there, we’ll be sponsoring…
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CivicActions Is Proud To Be A Silver Sponsor Of DrupalCon Chicago
CivicActions is proud to be a silver sponsor of DrupalCon Chicago! We have a long history of sponsoring DrupalCons in North America and Europe.
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Jumo And A Dunbar Number For Organizations
This morning I read Robin Dunbar’s op-ed in the New York Times, You’ve Got To Have (150) Friends, and it got me thinking more about Jumo (read my initial thoughts on Jumo). The author’s research into the capacity of people to maintain friendships has resulted in the concept of Dunbar’s Number: that humans can really only maintain…
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Network For Good Online Giving Study
Network For Good, the online giving portal, just released The Online Giving Study covering 3.6 million gifts totaling $381 million from nearly 1.9 million unique donors to 66,470 nonprofit organizations from 2003 to 2009. The study only covers giving made through Network For Good’s system.
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Two Weeks With Jumo: My First Impressions Of The Social Network For Social Change
Since its launch on November 30th, I’ve spent some time playing around with Jumo (it is definitely worth reading the about page) and reading other people’s accounts of their explorations of the new social network for social causes founded by Facebook cofounder and Obama 2008 Online Organizing Directory Chris Hughes.
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Using Price Sets In CiviCRM
We are getting ready to launch a site for a client that makes heavy use of CiviCRM and CiviEvent. During a pre-launch training on CiviCRM the client asked about best practices for using price sets. Each year the organization runs multiple events that have a variety of prices, but from year to year the prices…
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Comment And Vote On Our Knight News Challenge Submissions
Over the last few weeks a few people on our team have been buzzing away getting proposals together for the Knight News Challenge. The deadline for submission was yesterday, and our proposals are now up and ready for comments and votes!