ControlShift Blog
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.
feature
Users who are still relying on the deprecated Authy strategy for two-factor authentication will now be forced to upgrade their 2FA configuration next time they access the site.
improvement
When a member signs a petition or RSVPs to an event with a partner parameter in the URL, the partner parameter will also be included in the social sharing links on the page.
feature
It's now possible to associate a petition or event with multiple partnerships.
fix
We've fixed a bug that caused an Oops page when an org admin tried to view details about an individual group member
improvement
In authenticated API calls and webhooks regarding signatures and attendees, join_partnership has been replaced with partnership_opt_ins
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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🎨 Custom branding for partners, microsites, days of action, and more!
We’re excited to announce a series of updates to ControlShift’s themes feature!
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Using Supporter Led Petitions for Distributed Message Testing
Nathan Woodhull
on August 12, 2021
I enjoyed today’s XKCD comic which made the point that “experts in everything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field” and the same is as true for supporter-led petition platforms as it is for geochemistry.
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