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Track ladders of engagement with Paths

Posted by · April 06
When I started working on campaigns, a ladder of engagement was a sheet of butcher paper on the wall of the campaign office. We’d draw crooked black lines segmenting the paper into three or four sections. Each section had ... Continue reading

8 especially special things to know about special districts: John Oliver edition

Posted by · March 09
Sunday night, as we put the finishing touches on hundreds districts for the launch of Run For Office, a searchable by address database of all the elected positions in the United States, my colleagues and I were shocked to ... Continue reading

American Airlines is suing GoGo, and it’s a huge opportunity (for American, that is — GoGo is pretty much screwed)

Posted by · March 02
  GoGo Inflight Internet is horrendous. No one is really sure how the most awful wifi service imaginable monopolized the market and signed contracts with twelve of the largest airlines on the planet. All we know is it’s he... Continue reading

The best political websites of 2015 chose NationBuilder

Posted by · February 23
Congratulations to NationBuilder Architects The Beag Co., GO BIG Media and PowerThru Consulting for their Reed Award wins last week! For the second year in a row, a best website of the year was created with NationBuilder. ... Continue reading

Sync your voter file with UberMedia and advertise directly to their mobile device!

Posted by · February 22
Advertising is a huge part of any political campaign. Traditionally, political advertising focused on direct mail to get candidate messages to voters but, in today's digital age, targeting ads on a format your voters use a... Continue reading

Conservative campaigns have a new mobile canvassing option that integrates with NationBuilder!

Posted by · February 12
TRC is an easy-to-use mobile canvassing app with native and web clients that run on all devices. It is geared towards conservative campaigns and the app fully integrates with NationBuilder. With TRC you can pull lists of v... Continue reading

Learn how to run for elected office

Posted by · January 04
You want to run for elected office – you’ll need a team of experts, a big budget, and years of experience leading up to this moment. But, not really. We’ve gathered all the information for you so you can run for office rig... Continue reading

NationBuilder CEO: "We strongly believe in making voter information more accessible to political campaigns."

Posted by · December 28
Los Angeles—Today, NationBuilder founder and CEO Jim Gilliam released the following statement after Chris Vickery found a database of U.S. voters inadvertently accessible on the internet. “While the database is not ours, i... Continue reading

The forever campaign: using NationBuilder after Election Day in 3 steps

Posted by · November 11
It’s the Wednesday morning after election day. You’re tempted to turn the lights off on your campaign and pack up – but politics doesn’t have an off switch. Win or lose, the infrastructure of supporters, donors, and volunt... Continue reading