Adriel Hampton: Wired to Share

How Does NationBuilder Compare to Salsa (DemocracyInAction)?

adrielhampton — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:36:05 +0000

NationBuilder has community action and content pages built into a full-featured and customizable CMS. Your website is directly integrated into your contacts database, as is social media. It’s just more advanced than Salsa Lab’s products like DemocracyInAction. NationBuilder also supports voter data and outreach.

Here’s what Liberal Art has to say about NationBuilder vs. Salsa+Drupal: “NationBuilder’s tool suite is competitive with competing platforms, but its tools are fully integrated into the CMS. This means less setup and easier management of your messaging and action campaigns. What’s more, social sharing functions are baked into every page, tool, and action taken by your supporters.”

Tagged: BDS, Convio, Democracy In Action, DemocracyInAction, Drupal, NationBuilder, nonprofit technology, Salsa

How Does NationBuilder Compare to Blue State Digital?

adrielhampton — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:50:17 +0000

Blue State Digital, recently acquired by UK-based marketing giant WPP, provides custom solutions for progressive campaigns.

NationBuilder is a nonpartisan community organizing system with wide adoption in the U.S., UK and Canada. It brings together social media, customizable websites with content and community action pages, and email and text blasting.

NationBuilder is an alternative for Blue State Digital for campaigns and non-profits that want to run their own actions and emails without need for costly integrations and consulting contracts.

Read what Liberal Art has to say about what makes NationBuilder different from Blue State Digital, Salsa (DemocracyInAction) and Convio.

Tagged: Blue State Digital, campaign tech, NationBuilder, nonprofit tech

NationBuilder and NGP VAN

adrielhampton — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:23:42 +0000

If you’re looking for the best political software technology platform - integrated voter files, supporter and volunteer database, online donations, voter outreach tools, social media, online political action forms and political websites that build fast and work well - skip over NGP VAN and check out NationBuilder.

Tagged: 3dna, database, donations, NationBuilder, NGP, NGP VAN, platform, political tech, political technology, Social Media, technology, VAN, voter file, voter files, voter outreach

Join Adriel Nation

adrielhampton — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:38:56 +0000

Adriel Hampton's Adriel Nation

NationBuilder Powers New Livingston for London Mayor Campaign Site

adrielhampton — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:31:08 +0000

Ken Livingston, the first elected Mayor of London and architect of the successful downtown congestion pricing project profiled in Bill Eggers’ “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon,” has launched a NationBuilder-powered digital platform centered around his campaign volunteers. Livingstone is Labour’s candidate to unseat the Convervatives’ Boris Johnson in 2012.

“YourKen.org will give thousands of volunteers the chance to actively participate in the most cutting edge and dynamic campaign London has ever seen,” Livingston said of the site.

Labour supporters on Twitter welcomed the site as “natty,” “slick,” “brilliant,” and “bloody great.”

Livingstone’s “YourKen” was designed by Ben Soffa of the UK firm Organic Campaigns.

Campaign: Ken Livingstone launches campaigning site

TotalPolitics: The launch of YourKen

LabourList: London elections – could this be a game changer?

Evening Standard: Blogger Ken follows Obama and asks Facebook users to ‘like’ him

The Conservative’s Johnson has a website built by Boston-based Liberty Concepts.

Tagged: Boris Johnson, Evening Standard, Ken Livingstone, NationBuilder

Adriel Nation – Technologies for democracy; social media for social good

adrielhampton — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:24:50 +0000

I am writing to ask you to join Adriel Nation, my network for promoting emerging technologies for better government, democracy and self-governance and for sharing opportunities to help charities around the world. All of my blogging is now on this new platform, powered by NationBuilder.

Adriel Nation has two key focuses: promoting emerging technologies for improving democratic and self governance (Gov 2.0 Radio, NationBuilder, civic tech events and more); and using social networks to create awareness of and raise funds for organizations doing social good (XBAR Gives and more).

If you join, you will also have the opportunity to suggest organizations we should be supporting and to make other suggestions for the focus of Adriel Nation.

Thank you!

Tagged: Adriel Hampton, adrielnation

Adriel Hampton at the Democratic Technology Summit #CDPIC

adrielhampton — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:57:13 +0000

http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf

CDPIC: Engaging and Building Community with Social Media on Prezi

Open Gov Summit planning session @granicus

adrielhampton — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:52:33 +0000

Open Gov Summit planning session @granicus, originally uploaded by adrielhampton.

2011: We’ve Moved!

adrielhampton — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:40:40 +0000

Follow Adriel Hampton and friends in 2011 at the new self-hosted WordPress blog, adrielhampton.com

The latest:

Eight Advanced Act.ly Tactics for Twitter Activism

Review: Bob Fine’s ‘The Big Book of Social Media’

Happy New Year!

Inbound Marketing – It Works

adrielhampton — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:10:52 +0000

“Inbound marketing” is one of the buzziest of the social media catchphrases, but that’s because it works.

I’ve been doing a lot of Web 2.0 and social media for government speaking of late, and all of the leads have come either from social media connections or contacts directly through my web outposts, from inquiries on my blog to messages on Twitter. These leads have taken me to new states and countries in the past year, and, in April, I’ll be putting a two-day workshop in Southeast Asia because I quickly responded to a conference organizer with a proposal after she found me through search engines and followed me on Twitter.

If you’re just getting started with social media marketing of your products or services, don’t get discouraged. I’d been actively blogging on Gov 2.0 for more than a year before the leads started coming in. Persistence matters.

In 2011, I’m going to be focusing on a small number of high-impact workshop and speaking engagements, events in California, and social media trainings and implementation for government and activism. It’s great to see the groundwork of many late nights of writing bearing fruit.

Tagged: events, Gov 2.0, gov20, inbound marketing, Social Media, social media for government, training, Web 2.0, web20, workshops