It's not uncommon for words that you thought you knew the meaning of to take on a different connotation when relating to computers. "Embed" doesn't just mean snuggle down into a mass of pillows, there's an actual tag called "embed" which performs a specific (albeit similar) function. Another word coders have misappropriated is "nest." In coding HTML you will often want to do several things to one object. In the case of a website, the simplest example is a piece of text. The example I'm going to give you with HTML is not something you will necessarily do anymore, because you can more cleanly accomplish it with CSS, but it will serve for showing the properties of nesting.

Let's say you have some text.

Hello World.

Being a diligent coder, you surround your text with paragraph tags, like so:

<p>Hello World.</p>

And maybe you are really excited about this text, and you want it to be bold. Here's where we have to start worrying about nesting.

In about three hours, our first day on the campaign trail will be complete. So far, it has been a fun ride - and there's 59 more to go...

For years now, some form of a Richir Outreach NationBuilder Field Guide has existed as part of an alternate reality. Today, it is closer to a reality than ever before. Throughout our tenure working as a custom NationBuilder shop, we have come across hundreds of well-meaning social justice organizations that wanted to continue their activism online - but didn't really know where to begin. These organizations have world-changing goals and shoe-string budgets. Typically, these organizations are trying to maximize their donors' dollars to serve their mission. Here's what we think - web development for activism shouldn't get in the way of that.

Americans for Prosperity, a national conservative group funded by the Koch brothers, has been “accidentally” sending out misinformation to North Carolina voters and, in some cases, their cats. The News & Observer reports that the information is labeled as an “official” form, and includes conflicting and sometimes incorrect information. It’s almost as if it’s designed to confuse voters rather than help them.

Tell the Koch Brothers and Americans for Prosperity to get out of our elections by signing this petition.

You can also check out the internet’s amusing response to this at votingcats.tumblr.com.

If you are not sure whether you are actively registered to vote, you can enter your name on the North Carolina State Board of Elections Voter Search page to check your current status.

This is a simple example of a webhook in Nation Builder. This webhook is set to be triggered anytime a person is changed. Our script simple decodes the data Nation Builder sends, and sends an email containing some of the data from the person changed. Note that this expects a "Version 4" payload from NationBuilder.