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NationBuilder Architect. Documentary filmmaker. Producer (PMD) at the Scottish Documentary Institute. Co-host of The D-Word.

NationBuilder for Film Websites

As Producer of Marketing and Distribution at the Scottish Documentary Institute, I've been buiding various film websites based on NationBuilder. With SDI's Virtuous Circle initiative, we're testing new tools and strategies for audience engagement, with generous support by Creative Scotland.

My background is in documentary film and television, mostly doing cinematography for others, but also some work as a filmmaker, most notably Upstream Battle – shown at more than 30 festivals around the world, winning a number of environmental and human rights awards.

As co-host of The D-Word for more than ten years, I feel like we've been at the forefront of social and professional networking among documentary filmmakers since the early days.

Now also a certified NationBuilder Architect, I'm available for hire through SDI Productions Ltd. for consultations and implementations on your own sites. 

I look forward to hearing from you!


Ben Kempas commented on What liquid variables are available in an email blast? 2013-06-11 12:06:45 -0700 · Flag
Can you add a variable for the recipient’s city or country? That would be really handy when asking people to do something where they are.

Julie Niemi tagged Ben Kempas' Cloning an event should result in draft event page, not a live one. with Website 2013-05-28 10:13:11 -0700

Cloning an event should result in draft event page, not a live one.

There are usually a number of modifications to make to a cloned event, so it would make sense not to have it go live as soon as you make the clone.


Ben Kempas commented on Event radius defaults 2013-04-24 08:18:58 -0700 · Flag
Have you found a solution to this? We’d like to change these distance_radio_buttons too, with a wider default value…

Ben Kempas commented on Fix the "Create New List" button in Advanced Search 2013-04-13 11:56:21 -0700 · Flag
I agree this is quite annoying. Hope a fix is in the works?

Ben Kempas commented on We would like to award social capital for opening an email. Thanks! 2013-04-13 11:50:27 -0700 · Flag
Not an urgent one to us but definitely an interesting suggestion. This would be tricky though if the capital was set to be shown on the front end though, and I as a user could see what I get awarded for… I could feel a little bit too supervised…?

Ben Kempas commented on Turning off sidebar for custom templates 2013-04-13 11:44:45 -0700 · Flag
Important suggestion. I’ve run into the same problem on two sites.

Ideally, there would be a choice in the Site Settings for any newly created pages – by staff or users – that would make them one-column or two-column by default.

Ben Kempas tagged Add respective event URLs to calendar CSV exports with Important 2013-04-23 03:59:36 -0700

Add respective event URLs to calendar CSV exports

This is picking up on this question which doesn't seem to have been turned into a feature suggestion yet.

We'd quite like to run all of our event management through NationBuilder so the CSV exports that get posted elsewhere should definitely feature the corresponding URLs for each event. 

As we're dealing with more and more screenings for our films, it will become more and more important to export these in batches without the need for further editing.

As endorsed elsewhere, it will also be crucial to us to have the country of the venue added to the CSV.

Should be easy, no? :-)


Ben Kempas commented on Add country code to event-export CSV 2013-04-13 11:25:49 -0700 · Flag
It is not clear to me why this hasn’t been implemented yet, as it’s quite annoying to have to add countries as well as event URLs manually.


Ben Kempas commented on How do I connect a NationBuilder event with a Facebook event? 2013-04-26 06:55:03 -0700 · Flag
So it’s not clear why a NB site wouldn’t be able post an event to its default broadcaster’s Facebook page. The link I sent you suggests Facebook would allow for this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#events

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