What's new at NationBuilder

"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 ...

Steve Jobs called her campaign 'bullshit'

How do grassroots activists influence the policies of the world's larget corporations? Shareholder actions, spectacle, letters from religious leaders and thousands of regular folks, for a start. In the latest episode of N...

#Occupy for a gift economy

In this inaugural episode of Leaders and Creators, the NationBuilder interview show, I interview Austin Guest, of ALIGN NY, and Olivia Leirer and Greg Basta, of New York Communities for Change, three of the organizers behi...

Mobile themes + other awesomeness

Lots happening in the land where nations are built...Mobile themes are here! Well, only one is here so far, but it's hot (thank Jesse). It's simple to clone and make your own custom theme just like you would with the site...

Map your supporters

NationBuilder engineer Jacob Green built our map turf cutter which allows nations to customize walking lists by geotargeting selected groups of voters. He's also been hard at work improving our supporter mapping features...

Adding a BlogTalkRadio player to your universal sidebar

NationBuilder sites have a default universal sidebar. It's very flexible and has all kinds of customization options based on whether a user is logged in or not. It's also really easy to embed a BlogTalkRadio player in the ...

Announcing: NationBuilder's "Leaders and Creators" podcast

Here at NationBuilder, we consider organizing one of the world's most important jobs (and I'm not just writing that because my title is "chief organizer"). Savvy organizers are key to success, whether you're a community gr...

Coordinating NationBuilder actions with other CMS web software

One of the great things about NationBuilder is seamless integration between the content features of your website (content management system or CMS) and an interactive database (customer relationship management system or CR...

Structuring powerful online actions using NationBuilder

A popular tool for online campaigns is the mass email, sometimes known as the "thank and spank." It's a tool that has officials and agencies in an ever-escalating arms race with activists for control of their inboxes. At...

Opportunities for consultants

You may have seen President Obama's job speech last night, well... we're job creators too! As our customer base grows, we’re finding ourselves making frequent referrals to consultants for design, implementation, strategy,...

Growing your coalition with NationBuilder and Google Analytics

A number of advocacy groups using NationBuilder represent the interests of broad coalitions, and are looking to work with partners and participate in movements much larger than themselves. So how to effectively track the...

Paypal

Paypal is now fully integrated as a payment processor. We did the good integration too, where it's as seamless as possible flipping to Paypal's site and immediately coming back to your NationBuilder site and resuming the...

25 cool ways for your non-profit to grow on NationBuilder

Beyond beautiful websites, NationBuilder has an insane amount of built-in tools for leveraging the passion of your volunteers and staff - at about the cost of simply hosting a website and the ease of a wordpress.com implem...