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Digital organizing for restaurant owners: How to build a community of regulars

Think about your favorite restaurant. What draws you to the place? Mine is a humble downtown Los Angeles restaurant, Maccheroni Republic. The chef there turns out a Bolognese that braises in my mind when I haven’t had it ...

Even more ways candidates gain a big advantage using NationBuilder

Earlier this month, I highlighted five advantages campaigns reap when organizing with NationBuilder. Today I'm rounding out the top 10 with five additional tips to strengthen the impact of your next campaign. Here's a...

10 ways candidates gain a big advantage using NationBuilder: Part 1

Like many lifelong organizers, I got my start working on political campaigns. What started as helping a student get elected to the local city council in college quickly accelerated into managing Congressional races. I...

Your solidarity megaphone: NationBuilder for unions

United Voice of Queensland Big Steps campaign rally Digital organizing is the future of union organizing. Amplifying your union's online voice around current issue-based or political campaigns is how middle class worke...

What am I called to do? Investigating the 'story of self'

We all have a story to tell. Let me give you a little of mine: When I was 18, I graduated from high school and didn't know where to go from there. I knew college wasn't for me quite yet and I knew working as a waitress and...

Stop blogging in the dark

BlogHer starts on Thursday! And in preparation, I've been thinking a lot about blogging with NationBuilder. Like most bloggers, I try to maintain a consistent schedule of posts, mostly 3-4 entries a week, while also connec...

5 tips for Twitter dominance at conferences

Netroots in June From Netroots last month to BlogHer next week, I attend quite a few conferences for NationBuilder. And I love it. I meet lots of great people, tweet an abundance of interesting content, and listen to a...

Use Facebook to grow your nation with ActionSprout

Shawn Kemp, ActionSprout co-founder One of the fundamentals of building and nurturing the community who will help you achieve your goals is reaching people where they are already gathering. This means that to reach you...

With a new organizing platform, Movement for Change will help leaders connect

Movement for Change's new website on the Aware Movement for Change is using community organizing to reconnect people's everyday lives with politics. With local chapters across the United Kingdom, they needed an online...