Resolved – Sites Down After Nightly Update

[Resolved] September 12th – 9AM

Last night, a 4am update to Tendenci 5 caused connectivity issues to development and live sites. Less than 10% of our sites were effected.

This issue was caused to a failing data base migration and has been resolved for all live sites as of 9am this morning.

Our Tendenci 5 development sites that were effected are currently receiving updates and will be back up as of 11am. For our clients who have projects in development that have been effected – we apologize for the inconvenience, you are not able to get to your development site right now.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you updated as we know more.

Thank you for your patience, we apologize for the inconvenience.

 

RESOLVED Update 12 PM July 26 – Tendenci Development Sites Down Due to Power Outage – Live Sites Not Affected

[Resolved] Update July 26 – 12 PM

Update! Development Sites are back online! Thank you for your patience, we apologize for the inconvenience.

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Update July 26 – 8 AM

Update: Power has not yet been restored and development sites are still down as of this morning July 26 at 8 AM. We do not have an estimate of when they will be back up.

Live sites are not affected.

Thank you again for your patience.

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July 25 – 6 PM

This evening, a power outage has caused our local Tendenci 5 development server to go down. This outage does not affect live Tendenci websites, only dev sites of clients currently in development.

Our Tendenci 5 development sites (that end in the URL tendenci.me) are down as of 6 PM. For our clients who have projects in development – we apologize for the inconvenience, you are not able to get to your development site right now.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you updated as we know more.

Questions? Contact our support team at support@tendenci.com.

Metropolitan New York Library Council Gets a Savvy New Site

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The Metropolitan New York Library Council launched their fabulous new website!  METRO is a non-profit organization that develops and maintains library services throughout New York City and Westchester County.

They’re using Tendenci content management software to help members:

It’s a beautiful design with the homepage pulling in dynamic content from various parts of the site. It gives visitors a great overview of the content at-a-glance and makes navigating the site a breeze.

Check out the new METRO site and feel free to give METRO a virtual pat-on the back on twitter (@tweetmetro) or a nice big ‘like’ on Facebook !

Server Maintenance Underway – Minor Outages May Occur Tonight (June 6th).

ServersTonight our team will be doing some server diagnostics to keep our servers running smoothly. We take our job of keeping your website fast, secure, and happy and this will allow us to do just that.

You may possibly experience some minor and temporary website disruptions around 6:00 PM CST, but these will quickly pass. We appreciate you business and look forward to many smooth and safe years of Web marketing your organization!

If you have any questions please call our support line at (281) 497-6567 EXT. 411 or email us at support@tendenci.com

Thanks from the Schipul team!

SchipulCon Web Marketing conference starts tomorrow!

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Our team has been getting crazy-excited for this week's SchipulCon event at the Houston Zoo.  Check out the SchipulCon agenda for information, learn about our great speakersand brush up on your Zoo animal trivia! 

If you weren't able to make it this year, we'll miss you but will also have some great content going up during the SchipulCon event, with special follow up videos, interviews and articles after the fact as well.

Want to keep an eye on SchipulCon's progress?  Here are some good places to start:

Huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors – you rock our socks off!

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For all of you lucky attendees (although, let's be honest here… we feel like WE'RE the lucky ones getting to bump elbows with you!), be sure to print out this handy FAQ sheet and a map to the Houston Zoo.  We'll see you soon! 

New Calendar Event Updates give you even MORE Control!

Our programmers have been hard at work and this week we have two really awesome Calendar Events updates rolling out that will make registering for your events and then sharing your events with friends even easier! You're going to love them.

Want your users to be able to tell their friends on Facebook about your events? We've integrated Facebook Connect with Tendenci so now they can!

Untitled-6 What does this mean to you? Now, from your Tendenci driven website, your users will be able to register for one of your events and tell all of their friends on Facebook about it in one step! This means more fun for your users and more free publicity for your event. It's a win-win!

Check out this helpfile for more details on how Facebook Connect works.

Calendar events now have custom registration forms!

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We're putting you in the driver's seat with this update! You'll get to decide exactly which information you wish to collect from your visitors when they register for your event and how you want to present your registration form to them.

 Some super cool features include:

  1. You'll be able to collect as much information from your visitors as you’d like using whichever input variety you prefer. This means you can use everything from text-boxes to check-boxes (plus more!) to get the information you need.
  2. You can make your registration forms prettier than ever before. You'll be able to section your forms with different lines and text headers to communicate with your visitors exactly what you want.
  3. You can easily update the order you collect information from registrants by dragging and dropping elements wherever you desire.
  4. Don't want to make everyone fill out every little thing? Make some fields required and others not, it’s completely up to you

Ever want to register friends for an event and not have all of their details? No problem! Now with our custom registration forms, you can allow your users to register anonymous so that they can register for all of their friends (and perhaps get a discount rate) without filing in everything immediately.

This last change gives your users even more freedom to bring friends to their events. Even if they don't know exactly who they want to bring, they can still get registered!

Tendenci Site Focuses on Fundraising

In these recessionary times, funds can be difficult to come by for non-profit organizations. One of the latest Tendenci Web sites to launch is theFund, San Antonio's United Arts Fund. As you might expect based on its name, the primary focus of the organization is to raise money for the arts and cultural organizations in and around San Antonio. With a lot of people and businesses wondering where their next dollar will be coming from, fundraising is front and center with most non-profits and the Web can be fertile ground — if approached right. As you'll see if you click through theFund's site, we've tried to make the requests for donations visible throughout the site and we've made it as simple as possible for people to give. In terms of content, the organization has done a great job of visibly showcasing the breadth of programs they support so a visitor can quickly grasp where their money will go. It is a great example of Web-based fundraising for non-profits to model.

Welcome ThirdBiotech to the Tendenci Family

Be sure to check out one of the latest Tendenci sites, http://www.thirdbiotech.com/. ThirdBiotech promotes Arizona’s development of science and technology for the formation of life sciences companies. They recognized that collaboration and support are keys to advancing Arizona’s biotech industry, which is spread all over the state. It can be tough to collaborate when everyone is geographically dispersed. But that's why the Web can be a perfect community building tool! With their new Tendenci-powered Web site, the Web serves as the epicenter of the organization’s activities, delivering news and information, promoting and reporting on events, enabling online membership management, event registration and donations, and a Scientist’s Center where early stage biotechnology companies can seek financial support and guidance.

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