Suggest a feature for NationBuilder
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Phone App
It would be wonderful instead of having to re-enter information from the call and walk sheets to have it on a phone app. As a campaign manager often I can get volunteers to canvass, but then they go to their kid's game or to the store and forget to bring back the sheets for several days (if ever.) Between houses you could state the interest levels on the phone and be done.
directory of services
I'm creating a central repository of social services available in the Dallas area. I would like the representatives from those areas to be able to join the DallasCares nation, quickly create a profile for their organization, tag it and then ideally leave and never have to think about it again -- just keep their organization's Facebook page up to date and then DallasCares will be up to date. If I can't have THAT, then I would like at least for the reps from those organizations to be able to easily update the DallasCares nationbuilder listing for their organization. I believe this service is needed not only for Dallas, but for every single city and town in the US, and it would be great if there were ONE nationbuilder that was searchable by zipcode and tag say "76238 domesticviolence" or "49530 foodbank". PRINTABLE results would enable first responders (cops, teachers, preachers) to have up-to-date info at their finger tips (the printed version shoudlinclude a promiment URL and date pritned) to hand to those in need (who often do NOT have internet access or the life stability to visit a library and use the computers but are in actual crisis). Thanks!
Option to schedule blogs and emails
It'd be great to be able to schedule blog posts and emails, so they can still be sent if I'm busy doing other things or away from the office.
Also, having a wysiwyg editor for emails and pages would be super helpful (i.e. being able to change font sizes, styles, and colors without going into html; moving pics without messing up the formating, having spellcheck, etc.).
Auto-assigning point people by city, county or zip code
Hi. We are a statewide organization with more than 100,000 members. It'd be really helpful to us if we could auto-assign point people by location. Thanks!
Improve "First Imported from file"
I believe "first imported from file" origin query only displays the past 20 imports. So you can't query on an origin file older than the last 20. Additionally, the imports screen only show the last 20. We need to have all exposed, not just the last 20.
Inline Image Upload
I think it would be a little more efficient to allow inline image uploading. Currently my users and I have to click on the "Files" section of the page we are working with and upload a file there, then switch back to content and select the files from the drop down.
It would be very helpful to be able to do this from within the content page.
Thank you
Add Search to Suggestions
It'd be great to be able to search suggestions. is there already a way to do this??
Send test blasts to teams
We were sending a blast email today and had to input five different people's emails into the "send test email" field several times. I know it's kind of minor, but having the option to send the test email to a particular tag (everyone on the team) would be very convenient.
Rename Political Capital Points
It'd be great if we were able to rename PC and call it whatever we'd like. This would be great for those of us who are not using NationBuilding for a political campaign.
Mark supporters even w/o email
I just imported a big list that we're calling -- turning them from prospects to supporters. It appears I cannot mark a prospect as a supporter unless the person has an email address. This seems needlessly limiting -- we have a phone number and address and can certainly interact with this person in the future. It would be great to know they have opted-in.
Brad, email the documentation of which nation and import to help@nationbuilder.com and we'll take a look.
When a record is deleted it should be reflected on the dashboard
When a record is deleted it should be reflected in the main dashboard feed. That way is someone were to get into the database with malice and start deleting records, you would at least know that it is happening. When someone is taken off as a volunteer it is recorded, so it is basically just the same principle.
More options for grouping people
I'm doing some work organizing a public school community to support a ballot measure for school funding. The clear way to organize the community is via the schools -- each elementary school has its own defined group of people that all become friends. Classroom parents tend to be beceom friends and their kids stay in the same classrooms as they age.
This was our first NB campaign, and the platform has been super helpful. But we're finding it very cumbersome to track these groupings together. Tags work, but it's really messy. If NB had some sort of team grouping feature (more robust than just a point person), that would be fantastic. Even better would be a team space where these groupsing could communicate with each other, have their on page, etc.
Paid MailChimp Synch option
NationBuilder is a great tool but one has to admit that it is not as mature or feature rich when it comes to bulk emailing as something like MailChimp.
I suggest NationBuilder offer a paid option which synchs with a MailChimp account (MailChimp has the API hooks). That would offer NationBuilder customers the full power of a mature bulk email tool without eating into NationBuilder’s business model.
duplicate address data across location buttons
Every person recorded in NationBuilder has a suite of geographic address options such as “Home”, “Billing”, “Work”, “Mailing”, “Facebook” and “Twitter.”
Please create a way for us to duplicate an address entered under one button into the fields under one or more other buttons.
Also, if an address is logged as "home" but is in fact "work" for example it would be handy to be able to change that designation without repeatedly cutting and pasting and deleting.
Email gmail/hotmail contacts
It would be useful if our supporters could login to their webmail through our Nation Builder website so that they can select contacts from their address book and send a recruitment email to them through the website.
Being able to edit comments...
...would be great (if only to make them look nicer when people use too many line breaks...)
way to control duplicate petition entries etc
If someone signs a petition twice using different email addresses (by mistake) and we later deduplicate them, the duplicate petition signatures remain.
I suggest that this is not the most sophisticated way to manage petition lists and a way to detect duplicates and to deduplicate such entries would make petitions etc more credible.