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            <title>Event News and Forms</title>
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            <title>Further improvements in news and update services</title>
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Thanks to this week's improvements, the news, events and Newsletter are even easier to administrate and more visually appealing. Take a look!&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 07:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Improvements in the news, events, WebPages and menus services</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2008/05/16/0004</link>
            <description>We've just published an &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;updating &lt;/span&gt;which incorporates some improvements and corrects some of the faults in the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;news &lt;/span&gt;services- especially in the RSS readers, &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;events&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Web-editor &lt;/span&gt;and the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;menu &lt;/span&gt;system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Menu target can now be defined.</title>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;The menu configuration has been improved to let us define the redirection of the clicked link. Automatically, it pops up in the same window but we can set it to open in a new window. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New Forum Service: to promote dialogue and discussion</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2008/04/30/0002</link>
            <description>Coinciding with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternativechannel.tv/&quot;&gt;Alternative Channel&lt;/a&gt; forum that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Iwith.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; co-organised, we have decided to launch a new service, the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;FORUM&lt;/span&gt;. We came up with this so that, in a simple format, we could initiate discussion, and exercise a control suited to our needs. In addition, there are tools for alerting people to fresh comments, statistics, filters and, obviously, customisation&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Latest Improvement of the Ab·core platform: a step forward in security and access to information</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2008/02/19/0003</link>
            <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The past days have been very intense, specially as for functional improvements, which at first sight are hard to identify, but have a positive result from a technical point of view.&lt;br /&gt;
From one side we have been busy enhancing the &lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org/glossary/term/Hardware-Abstraction-Layer&quot;&gt;Hardware Abstraction Layer&lt;/a&gt; (HAL) of the data base. The HAL is a group of functionalities that allow programmers to access clear and easily the database of the operative systems. Therefore, it is very critical, as most of the applications draw upon the database for some information. With this improvement, we get to reduce in a significant way the response time in most of the accesses to the database. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another task that kept us busy was &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;security&lt;/span&gt;. We have added a &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org/glossary/term/Captcha&quot;&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;control  &lt;/span&gt;in the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Forum &lt;/span&gt;service, as it was being exploited by some organizations to upload undesired adverts, with the resultant image problems for the organization, but also for the rest as they were consuming considerable resources from the system.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the coming days we keep working to refine improvements in the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;abstraction layer&lt;/span&gt;, and keep monitoring the servers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Now Your Users Can Help You To Translate Your Site</title>
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            <description>By making use of your &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;extranet &lt;/span&gt;your own users can help you to translate your web site. Then, somebody from your organisation can act as a moderator to approve or reject translations, or make the finishing touches in order to publish  a philanthropic work created by your own readers. Keep on reading&amp;hellip;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The iwith.org Campus changes to the 1.8.4+ version of Moodle</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2008/01/20/0003</link>
            <description>The campus migrated over the weekend to the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;moodle 1.8.4+&lt;/span&gt; version. This version does not have any new functions but is does fix some bugs and, more than anything solves some security errors that had been detected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Communication, or the possibility of sending e-mails, but in a personalized manner</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2008/01/04/0002</link>
            <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;There are many that have commented to us having the problem of sending a message to a certain number of users, friends and collaborators in the electronic mail form. Above all, because our interest was to send personalized e-mails and also require a completed distribution list or a newsletter. In order to make this easier, we have added a new service function in our e-mail that allows us to send messages to a specific group of interest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Important improvements on the Homepage</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/11/17/0002</link>
            <description>This week we have published an innovation that solves some minor failures, while introduces some &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;enhancements &lt;/span&gt;as detailed below:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Homepage:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	Now this service is called Webpages, as we think this better matches with what the service is offering at present.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;WebPages and Metatags:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	It allows defining &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Metatags &lt;/span&gt;for the redirection page. Usually, the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;redirection &lt;/span&gt;page sends the user to another page depending on the language or some other parameters. Search engines such as Google do see this page but so far it couldn&amp;rsquo;t be indexed because it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have any content. We have added an option to insert metatags and define the text and links that the search engines will collect to enhance the indexation of the web site; this is, to make it easier to be selected by Google when related searches are run. It can be configured from: &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Services Setup -&gt; WebPages -&gt; Preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);&quot;&gt;Forms: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Customfields &lt;/span&gt;such as country and UN delegations can now be defined as mandatory. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Sitemaps: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	Optimization of the URLs to be sent to Google. Elimination of external URLs that Google world not consider and therefore, would not help the web to be selected by the search engines.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);&quot;&gt;News: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	A link has been added at the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;News service&lt;/span&gt; home to visualize the news in every language (not only the navigation language) &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;bull;	Navigation by sections works correctly again. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We hope all this improvements will be of your interest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>New functionality: RSS Feed Injector</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/11/05/0002</link>
            <description>Over past weekend we have added a new functionality to the News service; the RSS feed Injector.&lt;br /&gt;
This functionality help us define data flows that automatically will add news to our categories.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The processor interprets the news feeds, but also podcasts, videocasts and photo flows. We have successfully tested it already with sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Flikr.com or BBC.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A more accessible service from Stakeholders.</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/10/31/04</link>
            <description>In a meeting held with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accdv.org/&quot;&gt;Catalan Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted&lt;/a&gt;, some improvements and changes were mentioned that should be changed by the Ab·Core platform in order for people with visual disabilities to be able to access it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are including some of the recommendations in the patch this week. The Stakeholders service is now offering an alternative text to the visuals.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Today's patch also incorporates other improvements and corrections to minor glitches in services like news and events.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you to all who collaborated their ideas and proposals to help make Ab.Core an even better tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>September summary</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/09/30/03</link>
            <description>Below there is a summary of the projects we have worked on during the month of September:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Many enhancements and new functionality on the Extranet, that will soon be ready to be open to the public .&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Enhancements and bug fixing on the Pager interface that manages the data lists from the Administration.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;New kind of control and statistics management. Now the News, Newsletter and Stakeholders services, and next the other services that use the same tool to calculate the number of people that visit an article, and also to view graphically this results. The efficiency of the data base containing the log information is also enhanced.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;SocialBookmarking service added to all the Ab·Core services.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;The comments management interface has been re-designed.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;The comments tool has been added to the Event service.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We hope that we will be able to tell you more news soon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Take Advantage of Social Bookmarking, one of the last improvements of our Ab·core Platform</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/08/26/03</link>
            <description>As of now we have entered with our Platform into Socialbookmarking, a tool through which you mark contents of the Web that are of interest to you. These selections are saved Online, can be shared as well as make use of the lists chosen by others. Also, you can make your own publications, share them and vote for them. For further understanding, keep reading&amp;hellip;.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Webmail and its editor WYSIWYG change their look</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/08/18/04</link>
            <description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Those of you who use the Webmail as a daily work tool will have already realized that we have installed a new version, similar to the web2.0 applications, so that your mail has a more friendly and tidy look now.&lt;br /&gt;
However the old webmail is still available, you just have to click the link Old Webmail at the heading.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;865&quot; vspace=&quot;9&quot; hspace=&quot;9&quot; height=&quot;207&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;/mm/image/nuevo%20webmail.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obviously, from the old webmail you can go back to the new one clicking the link&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; Ajax Webmail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;655&quot; height=&quot;246&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;/mm/image/nuevo%20webmail%202.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If you want to have one of the two by default, you can set it up following route:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Admin -&gt; Services Setup -&gt; Webmail -&gt; Preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
Along the installation process we have put a copy of the Address Book in the new system, so that you can keep in touch with your contacts without having to make a new one; however, bear in mind that they are separated systems and if you choose a contact in one of the address books, it won&amp;rsquo;t show in the other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have also updated the&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; WYSIWYG &lt;/span&gt;editor with the last version of   &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fckeditor.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;FCKeditor 2.4.3. &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The WYSIWYG editor allows to write a text and see at the same time its design when it is published and the FCK editor is one of the best word editors for webs that allows to use programmes like Word in our sites.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In short, this new version includes improvements, solves security problems and provides more stability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Forms Updated</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/08/07/03</link>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;We have just presented an innovation featuring enhanced layout and control for our &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;forms &lt;/span&gt;service. This innovation is meant to correct some mistakes on the previous version.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In this new version, you can decide -for each user- whether or not to send a confirmation of the information received by e-mail. For this, is it essential to have the surfer's e-mail address.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many of these innovations are introduced by our dear friend Evan Silverman at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unitarny.org&quot;&gt;UnitarNY&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Thanks Evan!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Glossary, Extranet and other improvements</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/08/03/03</link>
            <description>We have released an update that offers a new service and a few improvements to the existing package. AntiSpam and monitoring services have also been upgraded.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Summer improvements</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/07/27/04</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;When the summer time arrives, the majority of people opts to &amp;lsquo;migrate&amp;rsquo; to cooler environments, take a little bit of free time, relax,... But in Iwith.org we have a tradition: a bunch of crazy programmers lock ourselves out with no phone, no email, and no distractions, and we star to implement, enhance and design enhancements and services for the Ab&amp;bull;core platform. &lt;br /&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s how &amp;ldquo;La Plataforma&amp;rdquo; was born, on summer 2001, and, since then, each year we repeat the tradition, and  on these dates we try to do enhancements and changes that, during the year, because of work, professional life or simply because of lack of time, we are not able to do.&lt;br /&gt;
This summer we are working on the user management interface&amp;rsquo;s design, and adding the concept of extranet user. If you are interesting in knowing what is this, keep reading...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/07/27/04</guid>
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            <title>Now you can manage your events better with the improved Ab·core Platform</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/07/09/03</link>
            <description>Events is an essential tool in the Ab·core platform, and fundamental for Not-for-Profit Organizations.  It allows us to announce any activity we are organizing and have people register online.  Thanks to these new improvements, it's now a good way to publish and promote your activities.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/07/09/03</guid>
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            <title>Ab·core protects you from SPAM</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/18/02</link>
            <description>It's the latest addition to our platform. We mentioned it when we talked about the comments on news and it promises to save us a few headaches from junk mail or SPAM.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/18/02</guid>
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            <title>New facilities on the Ab-Core Platform which promise to save you time</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/15/02</link>
            <description>As a result of your comments you can now make your website even more interactive and attract even more hits. We invite you to take a look at the latest improvements in forms, news, stakeholders and events.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/15/02</guid>
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            <title>News articles on your website now able to accept comments</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/10/02</link>
            <description>Iwith.org has carried out a series of changes that allow organizations to &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;activate a comments&lt;/span&gt; section on their news items, allowing stakeholders, friends and/or readers to express their opinions on a particular article. We have taken every possible step to reduce the risk of &lt;a href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam&quot;&gt;Spam&lt;/a&gt;. To achieve this, each comment has a &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Captcha &lt;/span&gt;feature and comments can be sent to web administrators for approval before they are published.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/10/02</guid>
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            <title>Multipage forms and other novelties</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/07/03</link>
            <description>Thanks to your ideas and proposals for change, we have worked on a series of improvements in our Ab-core platform we want to tell you about.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/06/07/03</guid>
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            <title>Improvements in News, Forms and Stakeholders: Check it out!</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/05/22/03</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;This week we present a series of improvements to Iwith.org's&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; Ab-Core&lt;/span&gt; Platform: interesting new aspects concerning News, Stakeholders and Forms, which we'll explain in simple language in this article.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/05/22/03</guid>
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            <title>Publish memorable quotations on your portal, thanks to Ab·core</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/05/18/03</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The Ab·core platform, in a major improvement, allows us to display quotes on our portal - not just one, but as many as we like, which we can set to appear one after another on our web page. In this article we show you how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>erika@iwith.org (Erika Olavarria wittwer)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/05/18/03</guid>
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            <title>Optimization of service: news, links and forms</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/29/03</link>
            <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;News&lt;/span&gt;: We are planning a series of improvements for the news service, such as adding a &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;TagCloud&lt;/span&gt;, permitting users' &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/span&gt;, or activating users' &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;contributions &lt;/span&gt;in the form of news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But before putting these improvements into practice, we thought we should 'rejuvenate' the oldest service of the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Ab·Core&lt;/span&gt; platform. Basically the code has been reorganized to make it clearer and more accessible. In addition to resolving some other minor problems, we've also begun to use a new model of microtemplates which will allow organizations to model, if they wish, every detail of the service.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We've also incorporated some improvements in the snippets, such as the possibility of being able to define the target in the links.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Links&lt;/span&gt;: In the links service, we have added the possibility to define the footer of the categories, as well as their identifier, to make navigation simpler and more compatible with search engines such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;. The code has also been converted to make use of  microtemplates thus allowing the user to customize the service.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Forms&lt;/span&gt;: We have added the type  &quot;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Select Custom Pulldown - Bulk&lt;/span&gt;&quot; which allows the creations of pulldown menus from a list of text. This option is recommended where there are long lists that require no translation, such as the names of countries. Since it's a text box we can use 'copy &amp; paste', although we lose the possibility of controlling the translations of the entries.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We hope you find these improvements useful.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/29/03</guid>
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            <title>New forms service</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/25/02</link>
            <description>One of the requirements most demanded by organisations in the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;ICT&lt;/span&gt; area is the availability of a system that helps them collect data from friends, internet users and general users.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For these organisations, it is often a case of &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;collecting data &lt;/span&gt;in order to have more information on the status of a specific issue within a community or to carry out a collection of signatures for a particular campaign or simply to gather the personal details of those who contact them. All in all, it is a mixture of different situations that result in a system displaying a web form that can somehow collect the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;data&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/25/02</guid>
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            <title>Snippets in Ajax</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/23/03</link>
            <description>A new version of the Ab·core platform has been published that will change the functionality of snippets and, in the majority of cases, will allow the use of the latest technologies such as AJAX. This takes into account the many organizations that use snippets and cannot cease to use or have had to use them up until now for compatibility.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/04/23/03</guid>
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            <title>Stakeholder Statistics</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/24/04</link>
            <description>A counter displaying the amount of times a &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;stakeholder &lt;/span&gt;logo is shown has been incorporated, as well as the number of times our visitors decide to &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;click &lt;/span&gt;on our stakeholders&amp;rsquo; logos.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With this data we are able to provide detailed information for each stakeholder as to the number of printings, number of clicks, click-through or ratio between clicks and printings which is displayed as a percentage. This data is shown in summarized form in the administration section, where we manage the stakeholders by identifier.  If we click on the data, we can&lt;br /&gt;
access a more detailed view, divided by language, with information on the results of the current month (&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;M-0&lt;/span&gt;), preceding month (&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;M-1&lt;/span&gt;) and the previous month (&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;M-2&lt;/span&gt;), as well as the historical totals (&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have also added a new snippet in the stakeholders section that will allow us to show the logo of a stakeholder and at the same time control the printing and the amount of clicks over it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We hope this new functionality to be of your interest.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/24/04</guid>
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            <title>Improvements to the News and Events service</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/13/04</link>
            <description>We have improved the News and Events service.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From now on the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;News service&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Will allow you to see the name and e-mail address of an article&amp;rsquo;s translator&lt;/span&gt;, as well as the date it was translated. The configuration of this service controls which parameters are visible when a user reads an article.&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;This solves the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;management, arrangement and viewing problems of the translated articles&lt;/span&gt; which previously arose from inconsecutively translated articles in one day. Articles and their translations are now grouped and ordered daily from the most recent to the oldest.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
About the Events service:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Just like the news service, the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;management, arrangement and viewing problems of the translated events&lt;/span&gt;, which arose from inconsecutively translated events in one day, has been solved. Events and their translations are now grouped and ordered daily from the most recent to the oldest.&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;A &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;cached memory system has now been introduced&lt;/span&gt; which, every time an event is modified or created, empties the cache and updates the iCal file for the next time the event is requested &amp;ndash; giving more dynamism to the changes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
We hope that you will find these changes of use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>nicola@iwith.org (Nicola Polinelli)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/13/04</guid>
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            <title>Improvements in the META tags editor</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/07/03</link>
            <description>An efficient indexing process in search engines requires using &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;META tags&lt;/span&gt; correctly. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;META tags&lt;/span&gt; are sets of information invisible for the web page reader, but accessible for search engines like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, where the content of the page is defined precisely in order to improve indexing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We can, for instance, define the title of the page, a description or an abstract and the key words that identify the page best when we want the search engines to take them into account, as well as the language or when it was last modified.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is important for each of the pages of a web site to have different &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;META tags&lt;/span&gt;, as it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t make sense if all of them had, say, the same description; this is why search engines apply penalties to web sites where all pages have the same &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;META tags&lt;/span&gt; or where the key words contained in the META tags are not related to the content.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After this week&amp;rsquo;s update, we have improved the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;META tags&lt;/span&gt; editor of the Homepage service by adding user options like &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;rating&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;classification &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;review&lt;/span&gt;, and automatically incorporating existing information like &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;date &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;language&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Translation by Elena Robles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/03/07/03</guid>
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            <title>Google Sitemaps</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/02/22/01</link>
            <description>We have released an easy way to let Google know more about your website. With this new feature, all pages of your website will be analyzed by Google in a given frequency. This also will help Google to deal with the multi-language websites and then obtaining better indexing results.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, there is a simple user interface to show all your visitors the content of your website with a Site Map functionality, that is accessible at &lt;a href=&quot;/i-pages/sitemap.php&quot;&gt;http://www.mysite.org/i-pages/sitemap.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Full instructions on how to setup this tool in the full version of the article, click on read more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/02/22/01</guid>
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            <title>Ab·Core platform migration successfully completed</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/01/29/03</link>
            <description>Iwith.org&amp;rsquo;s Ab·Core integrated services platform has been migrated to CentOS released by Linux. This migration has been accomplished in the frame of our continuous efforts to operate servers with the most innovative technologies. CentOS release version by Linux has a very solid performance.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2007/01/29/03</guid>
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            <title>Events: Calendar View</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/31/03</link>
            <description>We have implemented an option allowing you to view upcoming events in Calendar mode and to browse through it.&lt;br /&gt;
You can access the calendar view down at events or clicking at events date. In the first option you will access directly the actual date, in the second, the event date.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are different configuration options; for example, the initial view to be the month, or the week&amp;hellip;or the week starting Monday or Sunday, different time schedules in the day, etc. You can configure all this options through Management-&gt; Service Setup-&gt; Calendar. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Have a prosperous 2007!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Translation by Dámaris Barajas&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/31/03</guid>
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            <title>iCal format support in the Events service</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/16/03</link>
            <description>As of now, your users, friends and stakeholders can synchronize their agendas with those of your organization and therefore not miss any event.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have incorporated iCal format support to the Envents service, allowing exporting of all the events from a calendar to a standard format. At the bottom of the event service page, in a small but clearly visible way, you will be able to localize the link that will allow you to download the file. In some programs like SunBird (Mozilla&amp;rsquo;s calendar manager), can be indicated directly to the calendar&amp;rsquo;s URL.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This improvement is aimed to offer, very soon, a visualization in way of calendar of events, using standard tools that support this format.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Moreover, in this update there have been added the following:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;News: look in headlines. Now it also does it in news marked as &amp;ldquo;alllanguages&amp;rdquo; &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Album: Snippet Slide,  solving problem that did not allow thevisualization of sub-albums. &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;News:  Added a link to quick access to RSSfeed&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;News: Error in internal texts&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Album: Optimizing the internal management of the Snippets.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
We hope these improvements are of your interest.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Translation by Lucia Rodriguez Ilaria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/16/03</guid>
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            <title>“Events” service improved</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/09/03</link>
            <description>We are working on the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;events &lt;/span&gt;service to make it compatible with &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;iCal &lt;/span&gt;standards.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Thus, we have added more information to the event, so that calendars can soon be exported to events management programs. The information we have added is: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Geographical position of the event (latitude and longitude), allowing its reflection on a map (with a Google Maps keyword)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Length of the event, expressed in number of weeks, days, hours and minutes.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Colour of calendar, so that we may visually distinguish different calendars in the system.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
We hope this new improvement will be of interest to you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Translation by Dámaris Barajas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/12/09/03</guid>
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            <title>Stakeholders, FAQ, Resources, Newsletter,Events, Showroom among others</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/11/11/02</link>
            <description>After the Ab·Core 3.0 publication, we have focused on two main objectives: solve the problems, errors, and inconveniences generated by the new version as they came up or were reported by the users, and improve the utility and functions of some services. Next, we give you the details of some of the improvements made so that you can test them and send your opinion to us.&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/11/11/02</guid>
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            <title>Welcome to Ab·core 3.0</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/22/03</link>
            <description>We are proud to show you the result of a great effort that we are sure you will like: &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Ab·core's version 3.0&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mainly, we have restructured &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Ab·core's kernel&lt;/span&gt;. This reorganization allows an easier way to manage services and packs. We have introduced new elements that will allow a quick and dynamic programming.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Among others, the new issues you can find in this new Ab·core are:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Events &lt;/span&gt;service: new feature, possibility to define a form to &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;register in an event&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gels.org/events/?id=2006/11/05/01&amp;idSubscriptionForm=1&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Links &lt;/span&gt;service: new service to &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;manage links&lt;/span&gt; in your website&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Showroom &lt;/span&gt;service: now you can organize projects in &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;categories&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org/showroom/&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Album &lt;/span&gt;service: a new way to browse your pictures in &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Flash &lt;/span&gt;mode. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org/album/&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Newsletter &lt;/span&gt;service: improvements reducing the risk to be marked as SPAM&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Usage&lt;/span&gt;: a new administration's menu, in &quot;Statistics&quot;, to know &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;usage level&lt;/span&gt; of each service. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iwith.org/admin/?mid=stats&amp;oid=usage&quot;&gt;Example.&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Database &lt;/span&gt;pack: this is a pack just for developers aiming to extend Ab·Core capabilities with their own database applications.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
There are other improvements that are not visible. This new kernel means:
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;faster creation of new applications and functionalities&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;less programming errors&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;visual and functional coherence of applications&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
Eventually, we have done lots of little improvements in almost every service and we have fixed some little bugs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are sure you will like Ab·Core 3.0.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/22/03</guid>
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            <title>Upgrade of Anti-Spam filters</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/16/02</link>
            <description>We have upgraded the anti-spam filters.&lt;br /&gt;
The new version improves the behavior and detection of SPAM mails with attached graphic files.&lt;br /&gt;
In Iwith.org we continue working in order to avoid a major impact of SPAM emails on your organization.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/16/02</guid>
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            <title>Campus updated to Moodle 1.6.3+</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/14/02</link>
            <description>Just a note to let you know that we have now upgraded the Moodle-based virtual campus to &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;version 1.63&lt;/span&gt;+&lt;br /&gt;
The new version has a number of improvements over the previous one, and a special effort has been made to convert all contents to UTF-8 codifications.&lt;br /&gt;
In order to make this migration possible, some internal components have also been updated, like the Mysql Database server and PHP.&lt;br /&gt;
We hope the migration has been made without much trouble for your organization.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/14/02</guid>
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            <title>Ab•core’s error correction.</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/03/03</link>
            <description>In recent days we have solved some minor problems:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Events Service: Presentational error in a lengthy article about an event.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Events Service: Corrected an open &amp;ldquo;div&amp;rdquo;  html tag that was producing a script error at the bottom of the page.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;News Service: Names and contact details of the persons who do not belong to the organization are not shown.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Newsletter Service: The language option is not required in the user subscription form to the newsletter.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
 At the moment we are working on the improvement of the Kernel. We expect that in 3 weeks we will be able to update the lastest version, and it will allow us to develop new applications more efficiently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/10/03/03</guid>
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            <title>Show Room: New web service to finance projects.</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/07/17/02</link>
            <description>Very often, non profit organizations have certain projects that can not develop or even be born due to a lack of financing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iwith.org/showroom&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Show Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that Iwith.org will make available to all organizations, allows to include in every organization&amp;rsquo;s website &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;the best platform to show projects, and look for financial donors in a very simple and transparent way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/07/17/02</guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Upgrade in the News Service: Quick copies</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/07/24/03</link>
            <description>Some little improvements have been made concerning the News Service:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;you can easily copy a news to publish it in a different section&lt;/span&gt; from the original. This is useful for organisations that wish to publish the same news in different sections, for instance in the sections &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;News, International or Adoptions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have also improved the way the  &quot;all languages&quot; function works in blog mode.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>ramon@iwith.org (Ramon Bartomeus)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/07/24/03</guid>
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        <item>
            <title>Automatic e-mail answer “I am away on holiday&quot;</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/04/12/03</link>
            <description>Before leaving for holiday, you must remember to configure the &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;automatic message&lt;/span&gt; &amp;ldquo;I am away on holiday&quot;.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>laia@iwith.org (Laia Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/04/12/03</guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Improvements in Newsletter, RSS and News Service.</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/14/02</link>
            <description>We have improved some services:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Newsletter&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;News&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt; RSS/OPML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
And we have solved some faults.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/14/02</guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Improvements and patches in different modules</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/06/02</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We have improved different modules:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul type=&quot;disc&quot;&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;WYSIWYG      Editor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: new version, faster and new functionalities.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Single Sign On&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;: more      efficient and process rate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CSS Styles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;: a bug      has been solved: to save the predefined styles of applications from      administration. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HTMLEditor: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;an error has been solved in the detection of      editable modules. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PopEditors: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;more security control to avoid unauthorized use      of them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
We expect these improvements will be of your interest.&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/06/02</guid>
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        <item>
            <title>Now you can have your PodCast</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/05/02</link>
            <description>As simple as publishing your news, Ab·Core allows &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;PodCast, VideoCast &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;PDFCast&lt;/span&gt; broadcasting without needing a portable player.&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/06/05/02</guid>
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            <title>Improvements in Stakeholders and google maps services</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/05/22/02</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Stakeholders&lt;/span&gt; service has been improved becoming more flexible and able to manage a great number of categories and stakeholders in an easy and quick way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Besides, we have included the service &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:void(window.open('http://maps.google.com/','','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=yes,dependent=no'))&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, which allows defining a stakeholder&amp;rsquo;s Latitude and Longitude in order to situate it on a map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/05/22/02</guid>
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            <title>How to setup the Gmap (google maps) system</title>
            <link>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/05/22/05</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This article explains step by step everything you need to know to configure the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;javascript:void(window.open('http://maps.google.com/','','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=yes,dependent=no'))&quot;&gt;Google maps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;service in Ab·Core.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear='all'&gt;</description>
            <author>joduba@iwith.org (Jordi Duran i Batidor)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
            <guid>http://www.abcore.org/news/en_US/2006/05/22/05</guid>
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