ControlShift Blog
ControlShift Calendars 🤝 Pre-Chosen Decision Makers
ControlShift’s calendars feature makes it easy for organizations to start and manage large events mobilizations. The tools allow your supporters to quickly find events near them or be recruited to host events in their communities. Organizations around the world have used calendars to organize days of action, watch parties, lobby days, and more.
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improvement
Location searches throughout the platform now return more relevant results, by taking into account what country the member is likely in.
improvement
For embedded maps/lists with a bounding box specified, the bounding box is now taken into account when interpreting the location search.
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For organizations using Action Network, we've fixed an issue that could cause data sync delays under heavy traffic.
improvement
We've fixed an error that could happen for very large petitions when loading the signatures sources and buckets stats on a petition's admin signatures page.
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We've fixed an issue that for large petitions could cause the signatures detailed stats to not be displayed on the petition's admin signatures page.
Boost Your Events Mobilizations with Coalitions
Organizing a large series of events, like a day of action, can be a powerful way for an organization to demonstrate their reach and show the full breadth of support for their cause. However, recruiting so many events and adequately supporting all hosts can be a daunting task for a single organization to manage.
Event Library Image Above by Susan Q. Yin on Unsplash
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Scale Your Organizing With Partners and Coalitions
Few organizing wins have happened because of a single organization, and strong organizational allies can be the key to a successful campaign. ControlShift’s partnerships feature is a great way for organizations to deepen relationships with peers, find new supporters, and demonstrate a broad base of support for their campaign issues.
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Better Images for Petition and Event Pages
An issue we commonly hear from organizations is that campaigners and event hosts are often not choosing images for their campaigns/events, are choosing low-quality images, or are choosing images that have been copyrighted.
At the same time, our testing has shown the benefits of a good campaign image: petitions with images typically receive three times as many signatures compared to those without. Choosing the right image makes petition and event pages look better and more inviting, while also improving the appearance of social shares.
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Protecting Customers Sites from Bots and Malicious Actors
Successfully protecting ControlShift sites from bots and malicious actors requires multiple layers of protection. Many of these protections happen behind-the-scenes automatically. However, as online attacks increase, we think it’s important to remind organizations of the steps they can take to help protect their sites from malicious actors and keep member data secure:
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Best Practices for Event Hosts and Petition Creators
Petition creators and event hosts are the lifeblood of ControlShift, and supporting these creators as they organize their communities is the biggest driver of success for our customers.
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European Data Center
Nathan Woodhull
on December 14, 2021
We’ve always believed that customers and their supporters own their own data. We are simply stewards of that information in service of helping to make our customers more powerful in the world.
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10 Years of ControlShift
Nathan Woodhull
on December 7, 2021
We’re celebrating a major milestone, as we wrap up the year. ControlShift is 10 years old!
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Authenticate Securely
Nathan Woodhull
on November 22, 2021
We’ve improved the ways that customers can set up user account authentication within the ControlShift platform to support the requirements of the most sophisticated advocacy organizations.
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Improved Blast Email Experience
Nathan Woodhull
on October 26, 2021
We’ve been iteratively improving the interface that partners, petition creators, and event hosts use when they message their supporters over the last few weeks. We wanted to highlight all of the improvements as we wrap up the project.
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