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After the release of CiviCRM version 3.0, CiviCRM team didn’t wait and they started with the next version of CiviCRM. CiviCRM goes through a large number of testing cycles before the final version is released to the community and to test all the cool features of CiviCRM, a lot of time is required.

CiviCRM team has announced the release of latest version (version 3.0) of their highly extensive membership management application. The new version boasts of a number of improvements and new features from the last stable version 2.2 Other than its standard features the latest version has features such as:

First of all some of the packages which are required for APC: apache2-threaded-dev : This package provides the development headers…

  An SSL certificate secures the communication between the user and the web server. For commercial reasons it is required…

vTiger, a true open source Customer Relationship Manager (CRM), released version 5.1.0 last month. The new version boasts of more than 150 features/enhancements, 700 bug fixes and other performance enhancements. The new version replaces the last stable version 5.0.4. The latest version of the applcation and the upgrade package can be downloaded from sourceforge.net or their website at vtiger.com.

Some of the main features of the new version are:

Disaster recovery is the most important strategy every business should consider when in today’s time businesses are based on the Internet or software. Your website is one very important part of your business and you should consider on backing up periodically. If the content of your website changes frequently, your backup frequency should be higher otherwise

I started my first Open Source project based on Joomla and CiviCRM and called it JoomCivi. Checkout my next post…

Do you know:

• How many visitors were on your website last week?
• Which pages on your website are most popular?
• Which country/county they came from?
• Which Keywords are bringing most customers to your website?
• What is Google Analytics?

There you go.  I decided on implementing a shoutcast server on my PC. Two reasons: Sharing audio with everyone at…

What would a person do when he wants to buy a product or service? He will talk to friends, search the yellow pages, and go from shop to shop to search for a particular product/service… Nah…… not in this electronic age? With increasing number of Internet users around the globe, the primary source of information is the website search. I do it, you do it and we all do it. We search internet for everything, so much so that the term GOOGLE has replaced the word search in our mindset. We GOOGLE it.

A US study of online shopping habits has found that a highly satisfied online shopper is 73 percent more likely to purchase online than a dissatisfied shopper, and 75 percent more likely to recommend a site to a friend. The annual report into customer satisfaction with retail websites by ForeSee Results showed that only 10 of 40 top e-tail sites managed to improve their online shopper satisfaction rating since the previous year’s study.

A leading hosting and internet services provider recently found that nearly half of the consumers reasearch online before they buy anything. Yet only half of the retailers monitor their reputation on the internet or don’t have a website.

The hosting firm surveyed 1,500 people and over 400 retailers and found that nearly half of of the consumers read reviews of the products before actually buying them.

One in three consumers leave a review online, 44% men and 34% women go to review sites and compare the prices from various online stores.