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WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors can be tricky to configure properly, and most clients have to have them, for good reason too, who wants to hand code html?  In this short post I'll explain a few tips and tricks to get your WYSIWYG configuration dialed in.

For starters you will want the following modules installed

I recently upgraded CiviCRM for one of our clienst from 2.1.4 to 3.0.4 and learned a few tips that I'll share.  In most cases you just need to be sure to follow the instructions that CiviCRM provides and make all the intermediate upgrades along the way.  But In doing so, I ran into some frustrating problems, but through perseverence, ingenuity, and most important;y awesome support from Fen, Alex and Galaxy, I got around the problems and got the site upgraded.

Our friends at Chapter 3 recently launched a training program and just announced a new round of trainings in San Francisco in February.  As Dries Buytaert has pointed out, with the growth of Drupal, and the increasing demand for Drupal development and site building services it is essential that more people learn to build websites with Drupal.

Aaron recently shared The Non Profit Tagline Report from GettingAttention.org with me and I immediately though this is a report that more people need to see.  The report offers up a series of really great recommendations for crafting a tagline, as well as a checklist for evaluating exiting taglines.  To top it off, the report includes a list of 2500 non profit organization taglines.

I was recently asked to take some civicrm demographic data from various groups and graph the data so that a visual comparison could be made between groups. In the course of looking for some graphing/charting technique that would integrate well with drupal & civicrm I discovered the google chart api module.

Recently, during a civicrm upgrade to 3.x, a client asked for each civiMail click-through to not only be tracked for mailing reports, but to show up as an activity record for the user that clicks through. The main problem with doing this out of the box is that when civimail sends an email, it doesn't send any record (other than the email address) of who is receiving that email.

Both Ian and Jenn have recently blogged about our sponsorship and planned attendance at the upcoming She's Geeky unconference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California January 29th and 30th (that's nex

This year will be the first time I have been able to attend the She's Geeky Regional Un-Conference, and Girl am I excited! She's Geeky brings together women from all walks of technology, including those working in non-technical fields within technology. 

CivicActions is proud to sponsor the She's Geeky unconference scheduled to be held for three days in the San Francisco Bay Area starting on January 29th, starting at 9am.  

I'm really excited to share that two major client projects are having in-person Pod Sprints this month in New York. Part of our internal restructuring has been organizing into dedicated teams we call "Pods".  These teams work on one or two client projects at a time, which we think is going to hold innumerable benefits to clients, team members and our company as a whole.