People | NationBuilder HOWTOs

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Managing relationships: paths, filters, and logging contacts

Communities are created through relationships, which is why we made it possible for you to track & manage relationships within your nation.

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Logging contact for an organization

Its helpful to have a record not only of individual contacts, but a history of every time you have contacted a person at an organization.

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Prepping volunteers for a phone bank

Setting up a phone bank run by volunteers and staffers can be a vital tool for getting your community to take action.

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Campaign: Cut turf and print walk sheets

NationBuilder's turf cutter tool allows you to quickly save people from a map area to a list. These lists can be used to print walk sheets.

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Reengage your nation

It’s important to keep in touch with people in your nation, while understanding who they are and the best way to communicate with them.

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Basics

Understand the elements of a person's profile

A person's profile serves as the central hub for all of their information and their relationship with your nation.

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Create and edit a profile

A profile serves as the central hub for information on a person. As a person engages with your nation, their profile updates in real time.

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Viewing people in your nation

You can view people in your nation in a variety of ways within the People section.

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Organization profiles

In addition to individual profiles, your database can include profiles for organizations (i.e. corporations, unions, non-profits, etc.)

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How support status is determined

Every profile in your database has a support status: supporter, non-supporter, or prospect, which can be edited as people interact with you.

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Understand default paths

When a feature is enabled within a nation, a corresponding path and goal are automatically created. These are the descriptions for each.

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View and edit default paths

When a feature is enabled within a nation, a corresponding path and goal are automatically created. These paths can be edited.

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Create a path

A path is step-by-step workflow to complete a chain of actions. Paths define reasons for engaging supporters.

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Manually move people along paths

A path is a step-by-step workflow in which a person completes (moves along) various steps toward completing a larger goal.

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How to use permission sets with paths

Permission sets allow you to assign tasks to specific control panel users without giving them access to other sensitive areas of data.

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Batch update a path

Paths can be updated, abandoned, or completed using batch update. This means that the same action will be taken for everyone on a list.

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Using NationBuilder to manage your data

Data is handled securely for each customer in their own private database.

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Gather profiles

Tracking relationships

Learn the key features designed to track relationships, grow your supporter base and achieve your mission!

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Tracking relationships between people and organizations

Communities are created through relationships, which is why we made it possible for you to track relationships within your nation.

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Filters vs. Lists vs. Tags

There are many ways in which you can organize all of the people in your database using filters, lists, and tags.

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Create a tag library

Setting up a library of tags is key to organizing your data effectively.

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How to use tags

Tags are virtual sticky notes added to profiles to describe a characteristic that can help you target people with what they care about most.

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Create a list

Lists are a static way of organizing people in your database.

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Remove people from your database

Infrequently you may need to delete a large batch of people from your database. You can do this using a list.

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How to use lists and batch actions

Once you've added people to a list, use it to batch update them (e.g. add a tag to everyone), create/print walk sheets, and more

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How to use householding

Householding is the process of grouping people who live in the same house or apartment.

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How recruiters are tracked

Every profile/donation in your nation can include a recruiter. These actions can be rewarded with social capital & tracked in Leaderboards.

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Create and publish leaderboards

A leaderboard is a public ranking of the supporters who have taken actions towards achieving your nation’s goals.

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Target people

How to target people

Use filters to segment your people database, focus your outreach, and personalize your communications to key groups of supporters

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Filter categories

When you click on Add criteria when creating a filter, you are provided with a dropdown list of categories to find specific people.

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How to use relative date ranges in filters

You can search your people database using relative date ranges to see when certain actions were taken.

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Find people and pages with quick search

The search bar at the top of your control panel allows you to quickly find people, organizations, and pages in your nation.

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How to use map view and turf cut

Map view helps with planning in-person activities. Using the turf cutter in map view, you can quickly save people from a map to a list.

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How to target households

With householding, you can filter for doors to knock based on the traits of multiple residents (e.g. 1 active voter + 1 inactive voter)

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Contact people

Logging contacts

By logging all contact in your nation, transparency is enhanced & a historical record is built. This is a key factor in building community!

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Create a survey

Surveys are a great way to gather information from prospects and supporters.

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Priority level

Priority level is a way to rank the relative importance of individuals within your people database.

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How to use scannable sheets

Scannable sheets minimize the time needed to enter data collected during a phone bank or door knock. The sheet can be scanned and imported.

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Set up a phone bank

Setting up a phone bank run by volunteers and staffers can be a vital tool for getting your community to take action.

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Print a call or walk sheet

You can print call/walk sheets for volunteers to record interactions and enter the results later.

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How to promote volunteer opportunities

This will guide you through how to promote and setup volunteer opportunities on an event calendar for easy access.

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Data

How following works

The follow feature allows you to listen to your nation to be aware, in real time, of what is happening with pressing issues or people.

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How to edit primary address

A person's primary address is the person's primary location. It is used to place the person on a map as well as define households.

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Geocoding addresses

Geocoding is the process of connecting an address in your database to a location on a map.

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Find and delete Twitter followers

People who interact with a broadcaster's Twitter account are automatically imported into your nation, this functionality is editable.

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Merge duplicate profiles

Sometimes duplicate profiles are created for the same person or organization. You can merge these in a couple of different ways.

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Remove a profile

There are several ways to deal with problematic people in your database.

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How to download a person's data from their profile

NationBuilder provides the ability for a control panel user to download all of the personal data for a given person.

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Create and store a digital will

A digital will is a statement about whom will take ownership of a person’s information should they be involved in a catastrophic event.

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How to use recurring Twitter imports

Recurring Twitter imports pull people who follow a Twitter account into your nation.

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How auto-districting works

When you have enabled voter features, you have the option of auto-districting each person's voting districts.

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Share data with other nations

Sharing data with other nations can be a messy process. Tag sharing eliminates the hassle of exporting and importing data between nations.

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How to accept a shared tag

Tag sharing eliminates the hassle of exporting and importing data between nations. You need to be aware that a tag share is coming.

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Reviewing changes to shared tags

You may want to view any changes the sharing nation has made to a tag as it will affect data in your nation.

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Edit or stop a tag share

Tags shared between nation can be edited or stopped.

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