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NationBuilder on the doorstep - canvassing and much more

Knocking on doors and speaking to voters is an essential part of any successful election campaign. At NationBuilder, we’ve developed tools to help you do that. These work with your people database, so that you can take wha...

People: the (not so) secret ingredient in winning campaigns

Just over a year ago, I met Nancy Cooke, Director of Political Operations with the PC Party of Manitoba. I quickly learned that her leadership is a driving force behind the party’s organization and modernization - she even...

The One Question I Ask Every Candidate Before They Run

I grew up in a political family. My father was a journalist who became a community organizer, and he wrote several manuals on grassroots organizing and how to win political campaigns. My mother was a teacher who became an ...

If your goals dashboard looks like this, you're doing it wrong

5 Things You Need to Know about Digital

I just celebrated 18 months at NationBuilder. I know it doesn’t sound like a long time, but time flows differently at a fast paced tech start-up. When I first started in September 2014, a number of more senior staff talke...

Track ladders of engagement with Paths

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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...

The best political websites of 2015 chose NationBuilder

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. ...