Love Wins in North Carolina (on a budget)
Tue 21 Feb, 2012
A small coalition of North Carolina families came together last weekend to fight against Amendment One, the proposed measure that would define marriage as between one man and one woman in the state’s constitution. With the help of NationBuilder and plain-old kitchen table conversations, about 20 families organized to hold a very successful fundraising event.
They decided to hold a dance party because "Too much of the anti-gay amendment debate has focused on fighting hate instead of celebrating...
Displaying a List of Content From Another Page
Tue 31 Jan, 2012
Updated 1/31/12
Have you ever wanted to have content from one of your webpages show on another page on your site? For example, perhaps you’d like to pull some of your blog headlines onto your homepage? Well, there is an easy way to print content from one page onto another on your Nationbuilder website. In this post, we’ll walk you how to create this affect.
Throughout this task, there are 3 places you'll need to edit or refer to in Nationbuilder:
a new custom template, which will display the...
NationBuilder Glossary
Thu 26 Jan, 2012
NationBuilder bills itself as a Community Organizing System (COS) combining a website Content Management System (CMS) with a Contact Relationship Management System (CRM). This means that not only can you build and maintain a website with NationBuilder, but you can also use NationBuilder to organize your community of supporters or volunteers in an interactive database, managing your social media, action campaigns, face-to-face contacts, email, texting and more.
Nationbuilder is comprehensive...
Integrating Typekit with Custom Domains on Nationbuilder
Thu 26 Jan, 2012
One of the custom theming options that Nationbuilder offers its customers is an integration with Typekit. This means that you can use a handful of custom fonts such as Museo-Sans, Myriad-Pro and Lobster simply by plugging in the font name like “museo-sans-1” to your CSS style sheet. You can find more information about that feature here.
However, if you move your Nationbuilder site to a custom domain, your Typekit fonts will no longer work. To fix this issue, you’ll need to set up a new...
Exclusion Queries and Advanced Listbuilding in NationBuilder
Thu 19 Jan, 2012
Note: "Exclusion Query" means searching for people who are NOT something. Not named Smith, not donors, not in the city of Springfield, etc.
One of the capabilities that makes NationBuilder so great is its list-building functionality. However, regardless of the platform, sometimes creating and refining your lists can be tricky - particularly when you’re trying to create a list that excludes a certain group of people, rather than filtering on an inclusion basis. Lucky for us, NationBuilder has...
More Improvements to NationBuilder Look & Feel
Mon 16 Jan, 2012
NationBuilder's long list of features just got better. The folks over there are constantly making improvements to their theming and this Sunday released an update about the improvements they’ve made recently.
Firstly, they’ve implemented an easier way to add a header image to your site. Before you had to make a custom theme and modify the HTML, but now all you have to do is go into Pages > Settings > Header image and upload your header from there.
Second, they’ve added a new Focus...
8 Good Practices For Email Fundraising Messages
Sun 15 Jan, 2012
We've helped a number of our clients improve their fundraising efforts by making better use of email. There are many great resources on the web, like sites such as NTEN, NOI, Frogloop, and Network For Good.
Below is a list of eight recognized good practices for writing fundraising emails.
1. Know your audience
This is one of the most important rules in writing. It’s right up there with “show, don’t tell” and “writers write, always.”
In email campaigning, this also has to do with making...
Calendar Event Countdown Display with CSS
Wed 11 Jan, 2012
I made minor modifications to the CSS provided here to style an event countdown ("Only 5 days until...") for HK Activists. The HTML is simple; we just need the selectors for the CSS to act upon. Some of the CSS is newfangled CSS3, and the display looks fine without CSS3 too.
The display has been (briefly) tested in the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, IE, and Firefox as of January 2012.
My result:
My HTML (note that "<?php print $daysuntil; ?>" should be replaced with your number or...
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