Adriel Hampton at NationBuilder

Adriel Hampton commented on Mailbox set up for other email hosts? 2012-11-08 07:31:49 -0800 · Flag

Lisa, additionally note that if you are using NationBuilder for your website, there is no need to pay for another host (NationBuilder sites cannot be hosted by other providers), or for another mail provider. You can use multiple NationBuilder Mailboxes with our email add-on at no per-use charge, and you can also use up to 10 free Google Apps email addresses free – http://nationbuilder.com/how_do_i_set_up_free_gmail_with_a_custom_domain_on_nationbuilder

Adriel Hampton commented on Transferring images from blog to a non-blog page? 2012-11-04 18:22:57 -0800 · Flag

Jon, if you answer others’ questions, you’ll gain currency. There are lots of ways to earn and spend political capital, some as simple as paying an invoice. Glad that Lilia’s answer was helpful!

Adriel Hampton commented on Assign Point Person By Region 2012-10-30 15:53:04 -0700 · Flag

Nicole, you should definitely check out subnations, which are designed for large organizations like yours.

Adriel Hampton commented on Is there a way to make custom form fields in the event registration? 2012-10-16 07:39:26 -0700 · Flag

Patrick, upon completion of the event signup, under “Event settings” you can specify a new page to direct your signups to – using a survey page type, you can customize questions for multiple choice and short answer.

Adriel Hampton commented on Form 2012-10-16 07:36:27 -0700 · Flag

Patrick, the easiest thing to do is direct your volunteers to a survey page after finishing the volunteer signup. Directing automatically to a new page upon completion of the first form is an option under “Volunteer settings.”

With the survey page type, you can create the kind of short answers you’d like to collect, and it’s easy to review and even export them. Be sure to set correct privacy settings when creating the survey, based on whether or not you want participants to be able to publicize their answers.

Adriel Hampton published Using NationBuilder as a personal CRM in Blog 2012-10-13 13:50:49 -0700

Using NationBuilder as a personal CRM

As of an hour ago, I've got 37,042 email and social media contacts in my personal NationBuilder database (maybe more like 35,000 total people - I've been a bit lazy with my deduping). And this isn't just a numbers game - my nation is a foundation for things I want to get done in the world, a personal version of the customer relationship systems (CRM) that companies like Salesforce and Microsoft provide for large businesses. It's tailor-built by me as essential infrastructure for organizing my supporters, contacts and prospects from around the world.

I've created a website with a signup page and mission statement, a custom volunteer page, and a set of database tags that allow quick targeting of messages to specific groups. I know how many of my people came from Empire Avenue (352), Google+ (249) and LinkedIn (2,074) and from signup lists for San Francisco Bay Area civic tech events (456). I tap into my nation when I want to do something like push a petition and rally support for an issue I care about (118 people signed my recent petition for an open data legal standard in California).

Using NationBuilder's lists feature, I can retarget emails to my strongest supporters - after I send an email, I grab the list of people who opened it and create a new list for a followup call to action.

I also create custom filters of my Twitter and Facebook connections to sort by Klout and by PC (NationBuilder's currency) and target by geography - like, in advanced search, selecting on the default section the "Following broadcaster" dropdown for my account, then under address, a city.

Once you've created a search, you can save it as a filter and then under People you can select that filter and "sort by" in the dropdowns to see those folks organized by Klout or by PC (the metric for a person's engagement level or network value within your nation). This is really useful for stuff like making sure you touch base with key connections while traveling - sometimes I use it just to identify and say "hi" with a tweet to influential connections in a city I'm in.

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Adriel Hampton commented on Server needed 2012-10-09 19:53:05 -0700 · Flag

Please follow the instructions here: http://nationbuilder.com/can_i_use_my_own_domain_name

Adriel Hampton commented on Multiple parties when building Lists. 2012-10-09 08:15:45 -0700 · Flag

Mike, to create a multi-part list like this, you can use the list building function to add your searches together. Make sure a new list is selected in the cart in the upper right of your control panel, click the “+” symbol next to your first select, then create the second select and hit “+” again to add it to your list. There’s more info on this at http://www.nationbuilder.com/how_to_batch

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