What's new at NationBuilder

Expanded options for managing people tags

Tags in NationBuilder are a very simple feature, perhaps deceivingly so. They are an attribute of people in nations, but their use cases are so expansive that we've decided they deserve their own set of endpoints. NationB...

August 2013 API Rate Limit Changes

We recently made changes to our pricing structure and as a result, our API rate limit is changing tomorrow, August 22, 2013. Previously, we had an hourly limit of 600 requests per hour for each nation. As nations grew, we ...

Showing off NationBuilder Magic at Magic Market Week

Magic in Las Vegas! NationBuilder has customers everywhere. We cover politics, back room bars, restaurants, bridges and activists. As an organizer, I get sent to some very interesting conferences. I've been at NationBu...

What am I called to do? Investigating the 'story of self'

We all have a story to tell. Let me give you a little of mine: When I was 18, I graduated from high school and didn't know where to go from there. I knew college wasn't for me quite yet and I knew working as a waitress and...

9 ways to attract people to your nation

Photo by James Cridland, Creative Commons license via Flickr Every generation has a unique identity. Or so marketers who make a living crafting unique selling points for each generation say. The Chronicle of Philant...

The lone female on the LA City Council

Nury Martinez (left) won her LA city council seat in a runoff against Cindy Montañez (right). In a strange twist to local politics, men were elected to fill fourteen city council seats and all three city-wide position...

NationBuilder <3 Designers

Three and a half years ago, Jesse Haff -- the cool kid down the street who introduced me to SimCity when I was eleven years old -- joined NationBuilder as co-founder, lead designer and employee #2. I had been coding for mo...

What's happening at BlogHer13?

Currently, I am sitting in a room of 600+ women, listening to the Pioneer Woman tell her journey of growing up in Chicago, living a single city life, falling in love and moving to rural Oklahoma. Like many women at this co...

Stop blogging in the dark

BlogHer starts on Thursday! And in preparation, I've been thinking a lot about blogging with NationBuilder. Like most bloggers, I try to maintain a consistent schedule of posts, mostly 3-4 entries a week, while also connec...

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...