What's new at NationBuilder

Differences between US and European field mapping

‘Fields’ (in other words individual categories of data which you import from your .csv files into NationBuilder) are the cornerstone of your database. It’s essential they are well labelled and contain the right format of d...

How to look after your people - a European perspective on strategic relationship management with NationBuilder

You’ve set up your nation, you’ve imported your people, you’re pumped for the next step. What now? How to engage the people in your database? This blog post will shed light on how to best look after your people, how to bes...

Australian Federal districts for NSW, ACT, and WA updated

Just in case you missed it - we updated Federal districts for NSW, ACT, and WA in Australia. We also added State Electoral Districts and Local Government Areas for WA recently. NSW, ACT, and WA were redistricted in 2016 so...

Policy update: OAuth required for authentication with all apps that integrate with NationBuilder's API

Starting today OAuth will be required for applications to be listed in the NationBuilder App Directory. Existing applications that require the manual generation of test tokens will have until July 1, 2016 to become complia...

Want to ascend as a communications pro? You’ll have to get really good at data.

If you work in advocacy, nonprofits or public affairs, your title has the word ‘communications’ in it, and you’re not hungry as hell to get better at all things data, you’re falling behind. Fast. You’re a storyteller at h...

One day, seven elections

It’s has been a political jamboree here yesterday and today 6th May in the United Kingdom with seven different rounds of elections in just one day. In the political space, this has been one of our busiest times of the year...

Optimize Us!

I was recently in a casual conversation with an advocacy organization about increasing their digital work. The Executive Director seemed quite stressed and a little overwhelmed at the prospect of changing their communicat...

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!