Nationbuilder incorporates so many best practices, that I wonder if you will consider developing A/B testing support for web pages.

(I see that A/B Subject Line Testing is 'Planned'  at http://nationbuilder.com/jerimee/a_b_subject_line_testing

The event system works great - would be good if there could be a function to (optionally) add to events to export to Outlook/Google Calendar/etc.

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A new page that would allow an organization to set up form-emails on to send to elected officials for the organization to send to their elected official would be a great feature. 

Here's an example: http://leadnow.ca/robocall-fraud. 

An option for events to be "private". I.e. they don't show up on any events pages, they can't be accessed without the URL being sent to them, etc.

We'd use them for private donor events we host so that we can still give a web address with details, as well as an ability to track RSVPs and donations through codes, etc. But they could only be accessed by those we explicitly invite (through e-mail blasts, or private e-mails from hosts, posted invitations etc.).

It would be great if people visiting our NationBuilder blog & news blog were offered a feature that would allow them to republish stories and blog content by clicking a button that generates quick code to paste to their own site or blog. One good example can be found at ProPublica.org: http://www.propublica.org/about/steal-our-stories. In our case, this would be tremendously helpful as the State Integrity Investigation reporters in each state publish follow-up stories regarding the Corruption Risk Data we'll be presenting shortly. The ability for our media, invetigation partner, and public community to easily republish from our site means increased chance for greater sharing with more people. We're all about that. Thanks!

Michelle Powers Godfrey, State Integrity Investigation

PRI, Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity

My organization sells t-shirts and bumper stickers to offset some of our costs. I think it would be great if NB had a "store" page-type, so the defaults would be set up for people to buy stuff. Right now, the best workaround seems to be making an "event" page and charging "tickets" (explaining in the text that these are actially t-shirts, not tickets they are buying).  I think that adding a "store" or marketp,lace functionality to nationbuilder would be helpful for campaigns as well as non-profits & companies.

When you export a CSV file on an event to view RSVPs it has a number of columns, one of which is "guests_count". This has caused confusion a number of times I have on-sent this file to a number of our organisers. They think this is the "total" for that guest, when really it's "guests_count" plus 1 (the original RSVP).

Is it possible to include a column "total_rsvps" (or similar) so it is clear how many in that guest's party?

I'd like to be able to "like" the comments that supporters leave on my posts, especially on blog posts (but for pages too).

2 Suggestions:

1) It would be great to have a link to "Re-edit" when you're customizing a theme after you go to preview. If you don't like the preview, it seems that the only way back to the html code is via several steps.

2) Whenever I go into "preview," it always go to the "about" page which is not usually where I need to preview. If that was adjustable, it would also save time.

Thanks for considering!

... would improve the navigation. Include the 8 items that appear on the main community page. 

Does NB allow for A/B subject line testing? If not, this feature request is likely a duplicate.

A/B subject line testing is a known best practice for email outreach. A feature to make this easy would benefit our nations.

Is there a way to make a page read-only for everyone but the author(s)? It seems the only permission is viewable or not viewable based on role.

I'd like to have multiple blogs on a site (one for each person or "group" and let the author or group be able to create a new post but others could only comment (if commenting is turned on). This would be handy for giving teams their own turf. Sometimes a little control is helpful.

I'm not expecting the control of a forum like phpBB or SMF, just the basics to control who can author on a given page.

It would be great to be able to add/edit tags in the call mode interface. While writing some call scripts, I have to tell people just to take notes and then process it as another step during data entry. It would be nice to be able to capture tags at the time of calls.

In addition to tracking "yes" vote pledges, please add a way to track people who have already voted prior to election day.

Would be great to have some way to dismiss already-read content in these suggestions and help questions. Either by marking it read, or just having a "close" button, so that more content would filter down at the bottom.

with all these recent suggestions, I'm trying to get at the "overwhelmed" feeling I get when trying to process the content that appears across so many multiple-paged pages. So, key concepts across my recent suggestions are: filtered search, and dismiss (or close), and fewer mouse clicks

I didn't realize I'd want features from old-fashioined forum tools, but marking things as "read" (perhaps by color or dot) is a tried and true tradition. The new-fangled feature I imagine now, is just a placeholder (closed accordian) for closed (already-read) content, with new stuff from the next page coming int to take its place. All for fewer mouse clicks, and assistance to the likely-overwhelmed-by-so-much-content reader.

Where I am (Raleigh) most all local elections (City Council, County Commissioners, School Board) are in off years.  The voter data for those elections can be very different than regular election years.  Including that data for sorting is critical to parse usable lists.  Even if there was an easy way to import the off year data, that would work, but we are having a hard time doing that. 

It'd be great to be able to search suggestions. is there already a way to do this??

In some nations, especially in the context of political campaigns, there are some people who need to be handled with special care. It would be great to be able to flag these individuals with a VIP status that would be visible in the icons that show up beside someone's name. For example, it could be a yellow star.

To abstract this one step further, perhaps this could be implemented as as custom tag-icon mapping, similar to how NB lets you customize contact types, methods and statuses. 

For users who aren't comfortable with HTML, editing _sidebar_2.html to add an item to a blogroll is a high bar. It would be great to have a simple interface for adding a blogroll. (Meantime, I'll create a blogroll page that'll be imported into the sidebar.)

When donating, the option to add a note, or to self-assign a category. For example, we have multiple options of where the donation can go to, this gives the user the option to specify which project/grantee to distribute their money to.