What's new at NationBuilder

What's new in Liquid 3

Last week our engineers updated our version of Liquid to the latest build, making several new filters available for use in our templates. Filters are methods that can modify the output of numbers, strings, variables, or ob...

Logging Contacts - Politics with a Personal Touch

Every campaign's main priority is tracking their supporters and getting them to the polls, whether by 1s vs 5s, volunteers or donors. While tracking by numbers is the most streamlined way to do it, you can go a long way in...

Volunteer management and tracking comes to NationBuilder with our newest integration

Golden is an easy to use mobile and desktop app that lets you effortlessly onboard and manage volunteers and works seamlessly with your nation. This integration will eliminate all paperwork and manual processes of recruiti...

Control panel links now prompt you to login if you aren’t already.

As expected! If you have a link to a saved list, for example, you will be prompted to sign in before you can access it. It was giving an error and it has been fixed.

Editing your ‘rules’ was leading to a burst pipe - now it does not

Remember the rules you set up when you started your trial? Editing them in website > pages > rules was leading to a burst pipe - this is fixed!

Embed.ly update - better integration plus Instagram & Facebook embedding

We know that creating and formatting content can be super time consuming. A great way to quickly add media to your pages is to embed a link quickly with embed.ly! All you need is the link (on it's own line with no formatti...

No more Gmail broadcasters

As of April 29, 2016, you will no longer be able to create broadcasters with @gmail.com email addresses. In June, Google will stop delivering email not sent through its Gmail applications. Like AOL and Yahoo, Google will u...

We updated to Liquid 3.0.6

This afternoon our engineers updated our Liquid to 3.0.6! We will write a much longer blog post with the all the details soon - but in the meantime you can check out the Liquid docs to get all the exciting details!

Update to iOS SDK that includes new endpoint methods and incorporates SFSafariViewController to ensure iOS app passes Apple's review process

The latest iOS SDK update fixes issues apps ran into with Apple's review process. The previous version of the SDK used Mobile Safari so users were redirected to Safari to login and then sent back to the app. This update us...

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...

Field canvassing just got easier with Polis!

Tired of spending hours targeting houses, building walk-lists, and managing data? Polis automates these processes in a beautiful, easy-to-use mobile canvassing app that is now available on the NationBuilder app directory. ...

NationBuilder hosts FFLA Graduation

This past weekend NationBuilder was thrilled to host the Front Line Leaders Academy graduation ceremony. photo by Elizabeth Loza The Front Line Leaders Academy is a leadership development program offered every year b...

Product updates - April 25th edition

Along with a few burst pipe fixes on individual nations here’s the big stuff from last week: Clicking ‘sign out’ on nations with custom domains was bringing people to a sort of scary ‘your connection is not private’ page...

Email update: Emails sending as expected

This morning (Monday AM Pacific Time) emails sent from NationBuilder were delayed due to our email vendor having some unexpected downtime. Everything is back up and running and emails from this morning have been sent. If ...

Silo’d teams will kill your organization. Transparent goals will save it.

NationBuilder solves a really devastating technical problem for our customers. Our newest feature is solving a cultural one. In our years of working with advocacy organizations, nonprofits, political campaigns and brands, ...