What's new at NationBuilder

New official theme: Resolve

Resolve theme. Click to zoom. If you take a look in the theme area of your control panel, you'll notice there's a new official theme available called Resolve. I just finished this up and am really happy with the resu...

Funding announcement

We are thrilled to announce that we just closed $500,000 in funding from a handful of angel investors including Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the chief online organizer for Obama's 2008 campaign. Ramin Bastani o...

New screencast on customizing sidebars

The excellent nation builders over at Richir Outreach put together this screencast on how to customize sidebars. Well done! And thanks for sharing it with everyone. They've been doing some great stuff over at Action NC...

Revolution in Scotland

The Scottish National Party was down 15 points in the polls to Labour in February when Kirk Torrance approached me about using the still-in-alpha NationBuilder to power a new snp.org website and their plans for a social me...

Adriel Hampton: I am NationBuilder

It was one of the more artful job descriptions I've read: A description of a person – a personality, not a set of qualifications, endorsements and achievements held together by a resume or some faceless candidate. "Chief ...

Cloudy

As you probably noticed, NationBuilder along with many sites on the internet, including Reddit, Quora, Foursquare, and others, were down all day long yesterday. Many sites are still down 26 hours later (we were down for a...

Simple image sliders

We noticed several people trying to install jQuery image sliders to feature specific content. This can be a hassle to setup, so we decided to make it super simple and built this feature into NationBuilder. Here's how it w...

We are hiring a Chief Organizer

UPDATE 4/25: We found our person, we will announce who it is soon. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to apply. We are looking for an experienced organizer to help grow our community of nation builders. The p...

NationBuilder on TechCrunch

NationBuilder was featured on the highly acclaimed technology news site TechCrunch yesterday. Click here for the article.

NationBuilder launch

Thanks to the over 120 people who attended our live sneak preview event earlier today. In case you missed it, here's a rerun of the live stream. Please skip to around 1:18, as that's when the stream starts: NationBu...

Live sneak preview: Wednesday, April 6th at 4pm ET

We are launching next week! NationBuilder will officially be in public beta as of next Thursday, April 7th so anyone will be able to sign up and start nation building. Jim will be hosting a live video stream event right ...

Removed individual following/unfollowing activities from stream

You know how the activity streams in the control panel for some individuals gets totally overwhelmed with following/unfollowing activity? I turned it off. This does not impact the follow/unfollow of your broadcasters on T...

RSVP via text message

You can now set up keywords so people can RSVP for an event just by texting you. Just go into event details for that page and click on "text keywords." You can then specify a keyword, like say GARDEN for a community gar...