Sessions
May 31 through June 8, 2016
Whether you're new to CiviCRM or a seasoned expert there is something for you at CiviCon Colorado 2016!
Complete session list
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM as a Crowdfunding and Team Fundraising Platform |
In this session we will highlight CiviCRM's Personal Campaign Pages (PCP) functionality and show how it can be leveraged to create fully featured crowdfunding and team fundraising websites.
I will do so in the context of a case study of one of Skvare's most successful projects, the University of Minnesota Foundation's Crowdfunding platform.
I will... read more
with Mark Hanna |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| CiviCRM Everywhere: Leveraging a full coverage API for seamless CMS Integration |
We all know the power and utility that CiviCRM can bring to any organization, but are also painfully aware of its rough spots. By providing a full coverage API that is the single source of access to the data store, CiviCRM can be unleashed to be directly connected to native CRM tools, and be accessed by non-CRM tools alike. Instead of relying on... read more
with Jeremy Proffitt |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| What is CiviCRM? What can it do for your organization? |
If you are evaluating CiviCRM or a brand new user, this session is for you. During this session we will discuss the benefits of using CiviCRM for your organization and we will provide an overview of the main features with a focus on practical examples.
We will take a look at the integration of CiviCRM with other applications and CMS and we will... read more
with Virginie Ganivet |
Audience: Additional Sessions Type: Presentation |
Ballroom A |
| CiviVolunteer 2.0: The Latest in Managing Volunteers with CiviCRM |
CiviVolunteer 2.0 is a major upgrade to CiviCRM’s volunteer management capabilities. New features include public listing and searching of volunteer opportunities, a shopping-cart style volunteer sign-up, and support for managing volunteers for multiple organizations or chapters in a single CiviCRM instance. Lead developer Frank J. Gómez of Ginkgo... read more
with Frank J. Gómez |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falling in Love Again - Group Therapy For Database Users |
Data depression? Report rage? Mailing list mania? We've all been there. Tell us what’s keeping you up at night and hear from a panel of experts and other CiviCRM users how they've worked through it.
with |
Audience: Additional Sessions Type: Discussion Group (BoF) |
Ballroom A |
| The Future of the API |
For anyone that's developed an extension or other integration with CiviCRM, you know how important a good api is. CiviCRM's api version 3 is incredibly useful - it's mature, stable, tested, robust, and even has a handy gui explorer that writes code for you!
Great as it is, api v3 is now 5 years old, and while it may well last another 5 years... read more
with Coleman Watts, Eileen McNaughton |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| Best Practices for Managing Special Events |
In this session, we will explore in depth three concrete examples of different special events, a fundraising gala, golf tournament and conference and the particulars of creating a price set and profile(s) for each one.
We will share best practices for registering multiple participants and how to configure your profiles to accommodate different... read more
with Susan Engeman |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Workshop |
304-306 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementing User Portals: Leveraging the Power of CiviCRM |
Organizations are more successful when they provide their constituents with an effective method of interacting online in an easy, intuitive manner, particularly when working with complex events and family structures. Through the use of interfaces such as a user portal to public end users, such interaction can be effectively accommodated.
CiviCRM... read more
with David Doligalski, BackOffice Thinking, Justin Thongsavanh, Comfort Zone Camp |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| Member Management & Engagement - A Drupal/CiviCRM Case Study from the Colorado Nonprofit Association |
A fully integrated Drupal website and CiviCRM system can be a powerful tool to help strategically manage members and their interactions with the organization. Learn how the Colorado Nonprofit Association leveraged Drupal and CiviCRM to create one integrated system to reduce barriers to becoming a member, and create a great member experience that... read more
with Osvaldo Gomez, Adrienne Mansanares |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |
| Drupal vs WordPress vs Joomla! Showdown |
CiviCRM works with three Content Management Systems (CMS) but which one is the best?
In this session we will take an objective look at Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress to see which is the best for participants organizations. We will look at these CMSs in terms of content management, modularity, customization, integration with CiviCRM and much more.
with Steve Kessler |
Audience: Additional Sessions Type: Presentation |
Ballroom A |
| The Visual Vocabulary of CiviCRM |
It's a reflection of CiviCRM's success as a grassroots-driven open-source project that large sections of the software come from specific organizations' needs. However, visual elements--form layouts, icon use, text size, and so forth--can vary widely from component to component within CiviCRM.
Some work was done in 4.7 to make icon use more... read more
with Andrew Hunt |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM Statistics - charting the future |
The statistics portal (https://stats.civicrm.org) brings valuable indicators to all actors in the CiviCRM ecosystem – Core Team, partners, end-users and prospects. It is however just a start and we need to build on this robust foundation to:
•increase our understanding of the ecosystem,
•support our decision making progress,
•and act as a showcase... read more
with Nicolas Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Workshop |
322 |
| CiviHR - 2016 progress and roadmap |
The CiviHR project has been running at full steam for the past 12 months, working up to a planned full product launch in mid 2016.
Version 1.6 beta will be available soon after CiviCON Colorado, where you can get a first hands on with the latest development version. The session will cover a first look at the new features for v1.6, a walk through... read more
with Jamie Novick (Compucorp), Alessandro Verdura (Compucorp) |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |
| What's New with CiviCRM and Accounting Integration |
CiviCRM can do a lot more with finances that just collect donations, sell memberships, and allow people to signup for events. This session will delve into advanced topics in accounting integration with CiviCRM.
Learn about easy to use new functionality to defer membership and event revenue so your books better reflect your actual financial... read more
with joe murray |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| Who The $#%& Set This Up |
More often than you would think the biggest problem with a CiviCRM install are due to the first choices made by the installer. Checking that box seemed like a good idea at the time, but it is creating nothing but havoc right now.
Tommy Bobo, who handles the majority of Civi911 calls and has seen your database nightmares, will take you through the... read more
with Tommy Bobo |
Audience: Additional Sessions Type: Presentation |
Ballroom A |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| CiviCRM Entity - Superior Drupal Integration |
CiviCRM Entity is a Drupal module which now exposes nearly 30 CiviCRM entities as true Drupal entities. That means that almost any module that uses the Entity API, can access and manipulate CiviCRM data, Drupal style. This includes many commonly used modules such as Views, Rules, Entity Reference, Entityqueue, Search API, Facet API, Display Suite... read more
with Mark Hanna |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Case studies using WordPress |
Over the past few years, in the work we have been able to do at Tadpole Collective, we have worked on some different use cases for using CiviCRM and implemented on WordPress. In this presentation we will present a few we have worked on and what features are similar or unique about each one of them. In the process highlighting all that can be done... read more
with Dana Skallman |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Processing in CiviCRM, more than just donation page credit card processing and the future of payments. |
Payment Processing in CiviCRM, more than just donation page credit card processing and the future of payments.
with KarinG, StephenB |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| Yes, You Can Debug Too |
Sometimes consultants can fix things really fast because we have seen the problem before or recognize a pattern from previous issues. Sometimes, Civi consultants are just as lost as you and need your help to fix a problem.
Hear from Tommy Bobo, who handles most Civi911 requests, about the causes of many of CiviCRM issues and steps to take to... read more
with Tommy Bobo |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |
| Improving the Extensions Ecosystem |
While very robust with more than 1,500 extensions created on top of CiviCRM, the extensions ecosystem is in dire need of improvements on the following points:
-Quality check / Vouching of extensions in the directory
-Maintenance of extensions once they have been released, including bug fixes and version upgrades
-Promotion of extensions to our end... read more
with Nicolas Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Discussion Group (BoF) |
322 |
| Engaging Front End CiviCRM Integrations for WordPress. |
Research tells us that nonprofit site visitors are little more forgiving than for profit site visitors. If the average nonprofit site visitor isn't engaged within 5 seconds they will bounce to another search result. This is 2 seconds more than for profit site visitors. That being said, how can nonprofits utilize the powerful CiviCRM tools and... read more
with Nathan Porter |
Audience: Additional Sessions Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| You Get What You Ask For - Effectively Gathering Information About Your Supporters |
Much of CiviCRM’s power lies in its public-facing forms for contributions, membership sign-up and event registrations. Many organizations, however, don’t take advantage of these interactions to better understand the relationships they have with their supporters. This session will focus on developing a strategy to collect demographic and other data... read more
with Dan O'Brien |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Workshop |
304-306 |
| How to contibute to the community when you are not a geek |
CiviCRM is created and supported by a passionate community of users and developers from around the world. You don’t need to be a geek to contribute to the project. Whatever your skills are, there are lots of ways that you can make yourself useful.
After a presentation of the existing ways to contribute as an end-user (register your site, improve... read more
with Virginie Ganivet |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Presentation |
322 |
| Using Contribution.transact to Take Control of Online Payments |
CiviCRM's payment processing capability is great, but what happens when you want to do something really out of the ordinary? When a client needed a solution to separate donations from event fees, we looked at how we could create a separate transaction without additional information from the user. Once under the hood, a whole range of possibilities... read more
with Jeremy Proffitt |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| Session | Description | More info | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| StackExchange: What's working, what's not, and how can we make it better? |
We moved our free user and admin support from the forum to http://civicrm.stackexchange.com in April 2015. The community is humming along nicely, but there are areas where we could likely be doing better. Join a discussion about what's working, what's not, and how we can improve the usefulness of our support space.
2016-03-18_17-39-33.... read more
with Joe Murray, Coleman Watts, Nicholai Burton |
Audience: Community Discussion Type: Discussion Group (BoF) |
322 |
| Extra.Extra! Quick Techniques to Customize Front End Forms |
CiviCRM makes it quite easy to customize CSS and page templates. When properly setup these customizations can be maintained even though the core software may be upgraded through small files that only include the custom code. This presentation will focus on the use of CiviCRM's ability to utilize custom CSS and templates to modify appearance, auto... read more
with Bruce Thompson |
Audience: Product Advanced Type: Presentation |
308-310 |
| More than just a petition: emailing legislators and more from CiviPetition |
CiviCRM users have been able to generate emails from petitions for a while now, starting with a Drupal 6 module, ported to Drupal 7, and then ported to a native CiviCRM extension.
This session will introduce a new direction in mailing decision-makers from petitions. The petition email framework allows the same single-recipient petition as always... read more
with Andrew Hunt |
Audience: Product Beginner Type: Presentation |
304-306 |