Blog-events

Blog-events

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, visits NationBuilder

Last Friday, we welcomed Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, to the NationBuilder office as part of his nationwide book tour. Founded in 2005, Reddit is not only a platform for social news, it’s also one of the internet’...

Helping code the future of South LA teens with URBAN TxT

Arion teaching teens and parents at URBAN TxT Last Saturday, I spent the day with URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT), a revolutionary nonprofit in South Los Angeles that I've been volunteering with since Apri...

Jim Gilliam talks "bravery" at Creative Mornings LA

On November 8th at 7:30am, dozens of young creatives lined up outside Flagship's Kim Sing Theatre on the edge of Downtown LA to attend Creative Mornings, LA - a showcase of what makes Los Angeles one of the most creative a...

Taking the UK by storm at the party conferences

Emily in London The party conference season kicked off this week in the United Kingdom and we're really excited to take part in it this year. From Bournemouth to Glasgow to Brighton and Manchester, Henry and I will be ...

Showing off NationBuilder Magic at Magic Market Week

Magic in Las Vegas! NationBuilder has customers everywhere. We cover politics, back room bars, restaurants, bridges and activists. As an organizer, I get sent to some very interesting conferences. I've been at NationBu...

What's happening at BlogHer13?

Currently, I am sitting in a room of 600+ women, listening to the Pioneer Woman tell her journey of growing up in Chicago, living a single city life, falling in love and moving to rural Oklahoma. Like many women at this co...

Growing roots in the heart of the Silicon Valley

Ask a Sista filled the house on Saturday What a weekend. Sunday morning there's a feeling of sadness in the air and I find myself asking "what happened?" The information and socializing at Netroots moves so quickly: a...

NationBuilder at Netroots Nation: Do you know the way to San Jose?

The drive was long. Chandler, my lovely coworker, and I were on our way to Netroots Nation in San Jose. We grew bored pretty fast so to occupy ourselves, we sang pop-forty songs and made a few stops at California tourist d...

Dan in London, encouraging women in STEM

Our VP of Engineering, Dan Walmsley, participated in the Ungrounded flight from British Airways last night. The 'hackathon' involved getting 100+ innovative thinkers on a plane and forcing them to chat without wifi about e...