What's new at NationBuilder

#Occupy for a gift economy

Posted by · October 23

In this inaugural episode of Leaders and Creators, the NationBuilder interview show, I interview Austin Guest, of ALIGN NY, and Olivia Leirer and Greg Basta, of New York Communities for Change, three of the organizers behi... Continue reading

Mobile themes + other awesomeness

Posted by · October 20

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Lots happening in the land where nations are built...Mobile themes are here! Well, only one is here so far, but it's hot (thank Jesse). It's simple to clone and make your own custom theme just like you would with the site... Continue reading

Map your supporters

Posted by · October 19

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NationBuilder engineer Jacob Green built our map turf cutter which allows nations to customize walking lists by geotargeting selected groups of voters. He's also been hard at work improving our supporter mapping features... Continue reading

Adding a BlogTalkRadio player to your universal sidebar

Posted by · October 18

NationBuilder sites have a default universal sidebar. It's very flexible and has all kinds of customization options based on whether a user is logged in or not. It's also really easy to embed a BlogTalkRadio player in the ... Continue reading

Announcing: NationBuilder's "Leaders and Creators" podcast

Posted by · October 10

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Here at NationBuilder, we consider organizing one of the world's most important jobs (and I'm not just writing that because my title is "chief organizer"). Savvy organizers are key to success, whether you're a community gr... Continue reading

Coordinating NationBuilder actions with other CMS web software

Posted by · October 10

One of the great things about NationBuilder is seamless integration between the content features of your website (content management system or CMS) and an interactive database (customer relationship management system or CR... Continue reading

Structuring powerful online actions using NationBuilder

Posted by · October 05

A popular tool for online campaigns is the mass email, sometimes known as the "thank and spank." It's a tool that has officials and agencies in an ever-escalating arms race with activists for control of their inboxes. At... Continue reading

Opportunities for consultants

Posted by · September 09

You may have seen President Obama's job speech last night, well... we're job creators too! As our customer base grows, we’re finding ourselves making frequent referrals to consultants for design, implementation, strategy,... Continue reading

Growing your coalition with NationBuilder and Google Analytics

Posted by · August 26

A number of advocacy groups using NationBuilder represent the interests of broad coalitions, and are looking to work with partners and participate in movements much larger than themselves. So how to effectively track the... Continue reading

Paypal

Posted by · July 28

Paypal is now fully integrated as a payment processor. We did the good integration too, where it's as seamless as possible flipping to Paypal's site and immediately coming back to your NationBuilder site and resuming the... Continue reading

25 cool ways for your non-profit to grow on NationBuilder

Posted by · July 21

Beyond beautiful websites, NationBuilder has an insane amount of built-in tools for leveraging the passion of your volunteers and staff - at about the cost of simply hosting a website and the ease of a wordpress.com implem... Continue reading

Five killer ways to do events with NationBuilder

Posted by · July 10

Among its many cool engagement-centric features, NationBuilder allows you to easily create events and organize them across platforms. For creative campaign managers, there are few boundaries to what you can do with online... Continue reading

Quick-to-launch site aids apartment fire victims

Posted by · July 01

When an apartment fire in Madison displaced dozens of households this week, friends and neighbors turned to NationBuilder to quickly spin up a site to take relief donations via Democracy Engine, aggregate news about reli... Continue reading

Adding Tumblr to your nation

Posted by · June 29

Update: Since Tumblr removed the embed code from its "Goodies" section, Adriel discussed this topic on a recent episode of NationBuilder Live. You can see the clip and learn how to add Tumblr to your website in a newer blo... Continue reading

Globe-trotting with NationBuilder, Twitter and Klout

Posted by · June 14

I've been road-tripping a bit lately, from CityCamp Raleigh in North Carolina to DC and Maryland for the InsideNGO annual meeting and the Health Data Initiative (rough #healthapps video here). This week, I'm out to Minneap... Continue reading