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CiviCRM version 5.43.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

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Training information:Duration: 3,5 hrsCMS: Wordpress with CiviCRMLanguage: EnglishDate: 29 November 2021Time: 9-12.30 CET (GMT +1)Cost: €150,00 (excl. VAT)Max nr. of participants: 5

Over the last year the Core Team have been working hard on Search Kit - a new way of searching and reporting on data in CiviCRM.

Although still in beta, Search Kit is already a very powerful tool. It’s also fast, which makes it particularly pleasing to use. It’s a quietly revolutionary feature.

Recently, CiviCRM user 9to5 decided they wanted to take advantage of some of the features that Action Network provides, including tools that make it easy for constituents in the USA to contact their elected representatives.

The Unspoken Problem All Association's Struggle With“What is the biggest challenge that your association is facing right now to grow your membership?"This is a question we ask every association we work with.We are always curious to hear their answers, but also pretty confident we know what they will say.Everyone is in consensus about one thing: association membership renewal struggles!

The CiviCRM Community Council have been working on a set of guidelines for the CiviCRM Community Blog.

Many people in our community expressed a desire for some guidelines to inform posting and conversation, and now that we have a draft together, we would like to collect feedback from the community on what we're proposing.

In the upcoming 5.43 release significant changes have been made to the code that handles token rendering. The primary goal was to fix technical debt issues that were tying us in knots and holding us back. However some new usability features are also included in 5.43

Accessibility is an important concept that is becoming increasingly incorporated into the zeitgeist. In the spirit of this important movement, we invited web accessibility specialist, author and UN special advisor, David Berman on our podcast to share ideas with associations about accessibility for their websites and member portals.

We, the Community Council, owe all of you an apology. As you might remember the CiviCRM Community Council was elected in April 2020. Some of our members were elected for 2 years and some of us for 1 year. So we should have had an election last April for those members that either stepped down (1) or are at the end of their term.

Learn more about how you can deal with duplicate records in CiviCRM in this talk by Aidan Saunders of Squiffle Consulting.

This is a recording of the talk Aidan gave at the CiviCRM North East meeting on 8 September 2021. He spoke about:

CiviCRM version 5.42.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: https://civicrm.org/download

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bug-fixes or security issues at the moment. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.39.x.

Join the Community Council and the Core Team for our next Community Round Table on October 5th (6th depending on time zone). Get general project updates, ask questions, or just hang out and meet the community.

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We surveyed hundreds of association executives and membership managers for their burning questions around member engagement and member retention and the answers often circle around the question of creating a positive user journey for their members. Let’s dive into the 8 common questions we hear about user journeys.

1. How would you find out the perfect user journey for my members? How do you investigate that and how do you measure that?

Over the last year, SYSTOPIA has developed a set of CiviCRM extensions to make event management with CiviCRM more efficient and easier for participants and staff. In the first part, we present three extensions that support invitations, communications and check-in.

5 Reasons to Build a Customized Member Portal

Your association is growing, and with growth comes the enormous and never-ending task of managing your members and engaging them with your benefits. Data, registrations, payments, downloads, inquiries, ongoing communications and keeping your member benefits fresh and interesting on top of it all!

One way at Greenleaf Advancement that we try to give back to the CiviCRM community is by offering free user training in the form of one-hour webinars focused on specific areas of Civi. We've recently posted our upcoming training sessions for the next few months. They start between 11 and 1 Eastern US depending on the day and are appropriately called CiviLunch. The first session, on Organizing Your Contacts (because where else would you start!), is this coming Tuesday, September 21st.

On Monday September 20th we are organizing a Virtual Meet Up in English again. We hereby like to invite all CiviCRM users and people who are interested in CiviCRM, to our Free CiviCRM Webinar.

CiviCRM version 5.41.0 is now out and ready to download. This is a regular monthly release.

Upgrade now for the most stable CiviCRM experience: https://civicrm.org/download

Users of the CiviCRM Extended Security Releases (ESR) do not need to upgrade, as there are no ESR-specific bug-fixes or security issues at the moment. The current version of ESR is CiviCRM 5.39.x.

When looking for CRM software for your organisation, you want to see screens, what it looks like, what it can do, and also what is involved to integrate it with your existing other systems such as your website or your financial or bookkeeping software. 

There is a community created website containing 4 detailed use cases to give you that information:

This year is flying by! We have had some great Campfire Chats this year.