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Needing more guidance as you begin using the CiviEvent module?

Register for the Fundamentals of Event Management online training brought by Cividesk on Tuesday, October 15th at 3 pm MT/ 5 pm EST/ Oct. 16th at 7 am AEST and learn how to create an event in CiviCRM, manage different types of registration and better track participants before and after your events.  

CiviCRM version 5.18.0 is now out and ready to download.

Big thanks to Andrew Hunt and Alice Frumin from AGH Strategies for putting up together release notes for this version. 

The release notes for 5.18.0 can be accessed here.

Want to learn more about the CiviVolunteer extension for CiviCRM that makes it easy to manage and track volunteers, whether it be an on-going volunteer project or a specific event?

Cividesk is offering our most popular online class at a time that also accomodates participants from Australia & New Zealand.

The Fundamentals of Contact Management will be held on October 3rd at 2 pm PT/ 3 pm MT/ October 4th at 7 am AEST/ 9 am NZST. This two hour interactive training is recommended for those getting started in CiviCRM and will introduce you to best practices for managing your contacts.

Come along to the third meetup of 2019, a workshop style session discussing challenges submitted by attendees in advance. 

As suggested by attendees in the last meetup, there's more to explore on the theme of contacts including Relationships and how they could be used to segment lists for email marketing, Households and more.

Suggested topics from the following items:

Come along to the third meetup of 2019, a workshop style session discussing challenges submitted by attendees in advance. 

As suggested by attendees in the last meetup, there's more to explore on the theme of contacts including Relationships and how they could be used to segment lists for email marketing, Households and more.

Suggested topics from the following items:

Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about managing membership renewal during the 2-hour online training class, Organizing a Membership Renewal Campaign, offered by Cividesk on Wednesday, September 25th at 11 am PT/ 12 pm MT/ 2 pm ET.

Cividesk instructor Susan Engeman will carefully guide you through the steps necessary to manage this important aspect of your membership drive. 

This is an open invitation for everyone in the Asia/Pacific region to join other Australians, New Zealanders etc. on-line to catch-up and discuss all things CiviCRM. If you are a CiviCRM user, developer or casual user with questions, then you are most welcome to join us.

We are pleased to release the new stripe extension version 6.0 just in time for the implementation of the new European PSD2 payments directive that enters into force on the 14th September.

The new release uses the Stripe Elements library which simplifies PCI compliance and allows SAQ-A certification for most sites. The extension now supports 3d secure and other client-side authentication/validation methods.

Thank you again to all who participated in our Summer Survey. We are currently reviewing the results and already have some exciting ideas that we hope to present to the community soon, so watch this space!

 We have a Winner

We would like to congratulate Larry Kuttner, IT Manager at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, who is our lucky winner of a $500.00 donation to the non-profit organization of his choice.

Credit goes to other people but I wanted to point out a new setting now available as of 5.17.0 that should speed up most sites. At worst it should have no effect. It's like that button on traffic light poles - you press it and sometimes it does nothing but sometimes the light changes faster. Either way you're no worse off, except they now have your fingerprints on file.

As the CiviMobile version numbers continue to increment, the user experience of the mobile application improves with exponential growth. Members of NGOs and nonprofits are no longer office bound by a desktop CiviCRM application. What they have instead is a core CiviCRM functionality at their fingertips every time and everywhere. Our new release of CiviMobile 4.1 further refines the app introducing custom field functionality, among other updates.

Custom Fields

In conjunction with the civicrm.org website transition, we’ve undertaken a revision of the CiviCRM brand and messaging, as well as an overhaul of the site’s content. Likely the lowest hanging fruit is the CiviCRM logo, so that effort has shown the most progress to date. This post, in fact, is a summary of the effort and its result, as well as a request for feedback.

This blog post explains how you could insert data from a CSV file into CiviCRM. We use Pentaho Data Integration to read the CSV file and to call a Form Processor in CiviCRM.

This blog post is an example and when you follow the steps described in this post you can run the same import as me.

Pentaho is a tool to extract and transform data.

The form processor is an extension to create end points for forms in CiviCRM. Those end points can then be called through the api.

Prerequisites:

With the September 14th deadline for SCA payments and Stripe increasingly reminding users about their PCI compliance many of you will be wondering what is happening with the new Stripe extension that was funded in record time through the CiviCRM Make it Happen programme.

The good news is that it is nearly ready!

As many of you know, the civicrm.org is both the main site for promoting CiviCRM, and also where we blog, list extensions, promote partners and contributors, list the events organized by the community, showcase case studies, jobs offers, and provide many more features.

Get in shape with CiviCRM! Cividesk is offering a one-week intensive training special the week of September 16th.

This means all five beginner level Fundamentals of CiviCRM classes (one per day) at a discounted rate. This is a great opportunity to quickly train new staff on contacts, membership, events, contributions and mass emailing in CiviCRM. 

Sign up for four or five classes during that week and receive 10% off the regular rate.