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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. ...

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

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...

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

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...