What's new at NationBuilder

Angry deer hunters take to the internet over Walker policies

Wisconsin's for a while been one of NationBuilder's more active customer bases. Not only has it been one of the hottest places in the country for grassroots activism over the past year, until earlier this month it was the...

SB 1002: You don't ask permission to lead

Before joining NationBuilder as chief organizer, I spent most of my free time advocating for better government through technology and transparency, goals that fall under the loose umbrella of what many call "Government 2.0...

Uptime reports for your nations

You can now track NationBuilder's uptime and page load time around the world and around the clock. NationBuilder's public uptime report is provided by Pingdom and updated on the minute. All of your nations wi...

New email notification settings

We've upgraded how email notifications work to provide more flexibility, and help you keep up to date with the people who matter most to you. For instance, you now have the ability to get email notifications whenever some...

Blistering Rails Performance, Part 2: Garbage Collection

This is the second in our series of Rails Performance blog posts, focusing on the Ruby garbage collector. In case you're wondering if this one results in better performance, I present Exhibit A: Our average response time o...

Major investment

The power of organizing people online has had a deep personal impact in my own life. I was determined to figure out a way to bring that power to everyone, but I quickly learned that the only way to make that happen was to ...

Click-to-call with NationBuilder and Google

Update: 11/11/19 Skype has sunsetted it's click-to-call feature, so this feature is only available via Google Voice. NationBuilder makes it easy to create a computer-based phone canvass (here's a how-to video on using the ...

SOPA strike, Chris Dodd meets the Internet - Colin Delany

In what's being called the largest protest in the history of the Internet, web giants like Google, Wikipedia and Mozilla helped drive Internet users to the phones, emails and faxes on Jan. 18 to protest anti-piracy bills...

Liberal Art: Social media, campaign tools, winning websites - with NationBuilder

Liberal Art, the DC design firm behind sites like the California governor's JerryBrown.org and League of Conservation Voters's LCV.org has announced a new NationBuilder-powered offering that bring national-level design and...

Case study: Winning online for less than $250 an election

I just finished reviewing attributes of NationBuilder 2011 campaign customers, and the results are a huge validation of our vision: municipal candidates actively using NationBuilder won most of their races, and the average...

NationBuilder live training webinar

Based on popular demand, I'll be hosting another free live webinar this Thursday, at 3:30 p.m. EST, 12:30 Pacific. Sign up here, as space is limited. Your feedback says that custom theming guidance is a big need, so be su...

Our gift to you - new "Focus" website theme

As we close out the year here at NationBuilder, we've got a great gift for you from the workshop of ace designer Jesse Haff. The new "Focus" theme is free for our customers as one of our official templates, and features ...

"I'm proud of my work with ACORN" - Lessons from the rise and fall of an organizing giant

I first met Nathan Henderson-James in his role as an advisor to some of NationBuilder's early advocacy customers. Over the past year, I've met and talked to organizers across the U.S. who trust Nathan for his level head an...

Scottish sovereignty and the Facebook Nation - Kirk J. Torrance

Kirk J. Torrance is one of the digital strategists who helped lead the Scottish National Party to its most sweeping victory in history this past spring. Newspapers in the U.K. called the SNP's win a "Facebook revolution....

"People don't see politicians as people"

He's been called "The worst person in the world" by Keith Olbermann; he's opening a new office in San Francisco, and he's got a "man blog" that mixes Sunday School, Pulp Fiction and whiskey reviews. In the latest episode ...