WordPress + CiviCRM :: how to CRM in WP + how to Integrate 3rd Party Apps w/ WP

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At this April's Meetup, Dave Greenberg and Donald Lobo from CiviCRM are coming to speak to us about CiviCRM + WordPress.

The CiviCRM team has for the last year been working on integrating their open source CRM solution with WordPress. There's a ton to be learned from their experience:

Are you a techie interested in how other apps can integrate with WordPress? CiviCRM will talk about some of the details of how they did a WordPress + CiviCRM application integration -- lessons learned, technical tips, tricks and gotchyas, how they used the WordPress API, etc. Are you less-techie, but interested in doing CRM inside WordPress? Great! CiviCRM will show you how CiviCRM and WordPress play nice-nice together. So if you're relatively technical and interested in general WordPress + XYZ integrations, this will be an excellent case study to learn from. If you're less technical and more customer focused, this will be a great way to learn about an integrated WordPress platform that does constituent tracking, fund-raising, memberships, event registration and more.

After an initial CiviCRM presentation we'll probably break into two groups -- one focused more on the "user" side of CiviCRM + WordPress, and one focused more on the technical side of how CiviCRM integrated their app with WordPress.

If you'd like to learn more about CiviCRM and/or demo CiviCRM + WordPress before the Meetup, please check out these links:

Demo of CiviCRM + WordPres (http://wordpress.demo.civicrm.org/) -- you can use this demo site to try out most of the features of CiviCRM including online donation processing, event management, memberships, case management, reporting and more. WikiPedia entry on CiviCRM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiviCRM) CiviCRM home page (http://civicrm.org/) Some CiviCRM's blog posts (http://civicrm.org/category/civicrm-blog-categories/wordpress) about their WordPress integration

NOTE: April's Meetup will be our first in Automattic's beautiful new home on Hawthorne Lane! Wooooot! Please take note the address.