What's new at NationBuilder

5 tips for Twitter dominance at conferences

Netroots in June From Netroots last month to BlogHer next week, I attend quite a few conferences for NationBuilder. And I love it. I meet lots of great people, tweet an abundance of interesting content, and listen to a...

The benefit of sending email from a custom domain

Photo by Ben Grey Creative Commons license via Flickr If, like me, you're old enough to remember the first time you went online, setting up an email account was probably one of the first things you did. It's such an ...

Need sweet design work? Check out 4 new certified NationBuilder Architects!

There's a ton of functionality built into the NationBuilder content management system, which allows you to create interactive pages to provide your community a robust digital home. We've also provided hundreds of design th...

Telling your story begins with your website

Explore the NationBuilder theme gallery to enhance your visual story An organization's story incorporates the common bond that draws people together and the current action needed to achieve its mission. Articulating yo...

Malala Day declares every child's right to an education

The Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai in the head last October for having the temerity to expect unfettered access to education. Support for Malala poured in, and the Malala Fund was launched with the support of Vital Voices...

Optimizing your content for social media

We're constantly coming across great media and content on our customers' websites - videos, stories, event photos, blog posts. But creating great content isn't enough to drive traffic to your site. You have to find ways to...

Use Facebook to grow your nation with ActionSprout

Shawn Kemp, ActionSprout co-founder One of the fundamentals of building and nurturing the community who will help you achieve your goals is reaching people where they are already gathering. This means that to reach you...

With a new organizing platform, Movement for Change will help leaders connect

Movement for Change's new website on the Aware Movement for Change is using community organizing to reconnect people's everyday lives with politics. With local chapters across the United Kingdom, they needed an online...

Grow your community with text messaging

There are a variety of ways to use your nation's virtual phone number to connect with prospects and supporters. Using one of these tactics can give your nation a great boost — viewing them holistically and as an organic ex...

Beautiful, powerful new websites launching on NationBuilder

Here at NationBuilder, we get really excited about new sites launching on the platform. We email them to each other, tweet about them, take screen shots of their homepages and gush over how they keep getting better and bet...

Get efficient! Volunteer Management tips from the field

Volunteers with A Big Project in Valenciennes, France At NationBuilder, I work with campaigns of all sizes. Consistently, I have noticed one thing: regardless of size, many campaigns are not using the simple but extre...

Transparent communities achieve goals faster

Photo by opensourceway, Creative Commons license via Flickr A lot of organizations and movements are built around a hierarchy that obscures access to information. At each level, a supporter receives expanded access to...

Fire up your nation's MVPs with social capital and leaderboards

Social capital (also called "political capital" or "PC") is NationBuilder's currency system. With a little bit of planning and some creative thinking, you can use political capital (or whatever you'd like to call it in you...

Growing roots in the heart of the Silicon Valley

Ask a Sista filled the house on Saturday What a weekend. Sunday morning there's a feeling of sadness in the air and I find myself asking "what happened?" The information and socializing at Netroots moves so quickly: a...

NationBuilder at Netroots Nation: Do you know the way to San Jose?

The drive was long. Chandler, my lovely coworker, and I were on our way to Netroots Nation in San Jose. We grew bored pretty fast so to occupy ourselves, we sang pop-forty songs and made a few stops at California tourist d...