[Dcphp-dev] anyone familiar with CiviCRM?

[Frank Gómez]

Hello,

I work for a small non-profit and just heard about
CiviCRM<http://civicrm.org/>.
I am considering this as a solution to many of our needs, and wondered if
anyone had any experience with it.  I'd love to get your thoughts on it
before investing too much time in it.

Since I started at this non-profit, I've been asked to do all sorts projects
in a piecemeal fashion.  For once I'd like to be proactive rather than
reactive.

First I was asked to build a system for processing literature requests
through the websites.  Then it was migrating an email list from an
unsatisfactory list management application to a better one (I chose phpList
with a MySQL database).  Then online polls.  Then tracking which e-list
subscribers were responding to action alerts.

Any time we do anything remotely interactive ("Web 2.0"-ish) with the
websites, it's a big hit.  I see things moving more and more in this
direction, but unfortunately everything I've built so far has been under
unreasonable deadlines and without time to consider how this data might be
used in the future or what future features it might interact with.  (I'm
sure I'm not the only one dealing with this.)

CiviCRM seems to handle personalized email blasts, tracking activist
activity, and even membership/donor information and, on the face of things,
appears to be a good foundation to build other applications on top of.
However, as a one-man I.T. department, I'm loath to take the risk of
implementing a new system.

Thanks for your input,
Frank
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