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Connect to social media champions to grow your nation

Social media offers all kinds of opportunities for expanding your organization’s reach. While maintaining an official presence on different platforms is a great first step in this process, engaging your supporters' network...

Transforming Los Angeles: Q+A with the urban planners behind MyFigueroa

There's a shift happening in Los Angeles. What's historically been known as a sprawling car-centric city is being transformed into a web of transit connected, bike-friendly and walkable communities. This is no small feat. ...

Why should small businesses use NationBuilder?

Hangar Underground, NationBuilder small business customer In my five short months at NationBuilder, I've helped our organizing team connect with thousands of politicians all across the country to introduce them to the f...

Pivot Legal says 'NationBuilder changed everything'

This week, Peter Wrinch at Pivot Legal published a post titled 'NationBuilder changed everything' on the Strategic Pivot blog. I'd like to share his story with you. A couple of years ago, Peter was looking for a technol...

NationBuilder Partner Spotlight: PowerThru Consulting

Yesterday on NationBuilder Live Adriel Hampton highlighted the work of NationBuilder architect PowerThru Consulting. In this clip, Adriel talks about how PowerThru helps its clients build their supporter base using e-mail ...

Setting up your website

When you're just starting your nation, creating your website is a great way to begin reaching your prospects and supporters. In this video from NationBuilder Live, VP of Community Adriel Hampton explains how to switch betw...

Historic raise for Australian childcare workers won with digital organizing and NationBuilder

This post was written by Steven Miles, Coordinator of Comprehensive Campaigns for United Voice Queensland. It was originally published on the blog of cStreet Campaigns, a NationBuilder architect and expert, who kindly let ...

Nation building 101: Organizing people with tags and filters

The key to organizing supporters in your nation is being able to slice and dice them into useful categories that you can target with specific messages and calls to action. Want to send a text blast to all the volunteers wh...

Remove slacktivist from your vocabulary

As soon as people figured out the internet could be used to engage people in a cause, backlash began against this new form of activism. Actions like signing an online petition, sharing a story on Facebook, promoting a caus...

Going to NTEN? We would love to see you there!

Greetings folks of the NationBuilder blog! Julie Niemi here. I am an organizer with the NationBuilder Community team and I will be roaming the Minneapolis metro area from April 10-13 for the NTEN Conference. Look for me. I...

Remember to be social in social media

On NationBuilder Live we regularly discuss blog posts and articles that can help you be a more effective nation builder. On yesterday's show we talked about three articles on social media strategy. Stephen Sheperd from iMe...

Unifying your website, database and social technologies to empower your supporters

Greenpeace India activist, Brikesh Singh I’ve spoken to a lot of nonprofit organizers recently, and they’ve all had a similar complaint: it’s incredibly overwhelming to navigate the complex web of social media platform...

Video tips: Optimize your site to find and engage supporters

Your website is the gateway to your nation. One of the keys to using NationBuilder effectively is creating great looking websites that help you find and engage new supporters. That's why we make sure to cover different web...

Using the new support page

We've just updated our support home page at NationBuilder.com, making it easier to find our most popular how-to content and to review important questions and answers. The new support hub highlights the most popular how-...

Humanize your day

A lot of interaction these days happens online. You probably spend a significant portion of your day reading and responding to email. You may even have a system for sorting your email - by project or topic. And sometimes, ...