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Architect Interview: Eden Creative

Seth Douwsma We recently had the chance to catch-up with certified NationBuilder Architects Seth Douwsma and Zach Grantham who head up Eden Creative. In addition to guilty pleasures such as bubble baths and 90's boy ba...

Understanding support status

Every person in your database has a support status. It's either supporter, non-supporter, or prospect. Do you know how that status is set? Check out what is support status? for the full scoop. In related news, you may w...

GOTV: Using NationBuilder to find your most influential supporters

Political leaders have poured resources into the study of why and how people vote. And after years of research, this fact remains true: sporadic voters are much more likely to head to the polls if they think their friends ...

ICYMI: New NationBuilder strategy HOWTOs

We've got a bunch of new HOWTOs that highlight a variety of strategies you can use while building and growing your nation. Check 'em out! How following works How to create a tag library When to use filters vs. lists vs...

Grassroots advocacy for your nation

Grassroots advocacy encourages people to send individual messages directly to decision-makers. An app can help you streamline the process and track actions in your nation. More deets in our grassroots advocacy apps HOWTO.

Faster, error-free data entry with scannable sheets

In the lead up to election day, campaign field offices are susceptible to an all-too-common syndrome known as DEWD - Data Entry While Drunk. DEWD can result in bad data quality, high error rates, and in some cases, 50% min...

Updated API Docs

We have been really busy adding new endpoints and optimizations to our API; exports, tagging, lists etc... but often the sample JSON in our docs did not reflect these changes. Over the last few days we updated the JSON so...

Setting up a phone bank

Setting up a phone bank run by volunteers and staffers can be a vital tool for getting your community to take action. Whether it’s a follow-up to direct mail, a fundraising drive, or a GOTV operation, a phone bank can help...

API Code Samples

One of the things people request most from us is code samples so today I would like to announce the API code samples page. This page is where we will put up sample Ruby, C#, Objective-C etc... code that uses our API. Rig...

How to build a nation, Scotland edition

In February 2011, a few months before Jesse and I were set to release NationBuilder, I received an email from a guy named Kirk Torrance. He had gotten wind of what we were up to and wanted to chat about his plan for the ...

Surveys and survey pages

If you use surveys regularly, you probably noticed a recent change in their design. Surveys are now separate from survey pages. A couple of key changes: a particular survey page can be used to display different surveys...

Victory...again!

Back by popular demand, Victory has been revamped and returns as a v2 theme by the name of Victory Again! Fully responsive and carrying a staged donation page out of the box, Victory Again is a brilliant fit for political...

Maps now do clustering, auto-turfing and real-time filtering

It's almost election season, which is an exciting time for us at NationBuilder. Please enjoy these upgrades to map view and the turf cutter this Labor Day weekend! Clustering. When there are too many points on the map t...

Fight the spam!

NationBuilder has always allowed nations to self-moderate using community rules. But sometimes the content you want to get rid of is clearly just spam – and while NationBuilder does a lot of magic to prevent spam from ever...