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Yes, it would be amazing!
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What a fascinating idea – I love it! Wouldn’t it beamazing if more organizations embraced your directive to be bold? Thanks for sharing this story!
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Donald, thanks for the comment. That’s an interesting observation.
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I think there is an always present “tension” between how much we build into CiviCRM vs reusing other open source projects. There are a fair number of projects that deal with backing up mysql databases from: zmanda, automysqlbackup.sh, phpmyadmin and mysqldump (and a whole lot more). With regard to backup (and also cron), we currently [...]

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I agree with you Wes. Today I received an e-mail from Amazon letting me know of a new benefit for Amazon Prime members. It “just happened” to show up in my inbox on the same day that my Prime membership renewed. There was no mention of the renewal in the e-mail (I [...]

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Totally agree, Jeff. These are small actions with big impact!
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Nice post Wes. There’s been a lot of talk in the community of CiviCRM integrating with wordpress. I’ve already seen signs of plugin functionality.
I’m surprised that the developer answer was to tell people to use phpMyAdmin to dump data as a backup. It’s not a very slick solution and some people aren’t all that familiar [...]

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Was doing some research and ran across this post — crucial topic when we’re all becoming increasingly reliant on the Web. Simply having the back-end technology — the AMS — can be a tease for association executives who often spend very large sums on the database and related applications, and then skimp on the information [...]

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Josh, thanks for the comment.
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Insightful question, Wes! In the association market, I’m seeing more and more organizations recognize the member experience limitations of the AMS. I met with an organization earlier this week and the Director of Member Services said, “A membership database will always be a membership database. Our members are ready for more.” Associations are turning to [...]

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