ControlShift Blog
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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Sync ControlShift Events to Action Network
We’ve added support to our Action Network sync to allow customers to integrate ControlShift Events and Calendars with Action Network Events and Event Campaigns via an API data sync.
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Strategies to drive petition creation
During one of our recent office hours we had the chance to show off our new petition creation flow. We also spent some time talking about the various strategies organizations can use to drive successful petition creation. For many of our organizations, petitions are the primary way that members become leaders, and we know that organizations are often interested in new ways to solicit new petitions.
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Petition Creation, Reloaded
We recently announced our redesign of the petition creation flow, and we are excited to report back on how the tests we’ve been running have performed. We’re continuously working to make the platform experience faster and better for our organizations’ supporters using A/B tests to optimize every page your supporters encounter.
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After Action Improvements
Nathan Woodhull
on April 13, 2021
Millions of people take action via ControlShift every month and we’re committed to ensuring that every supporter’s voice is made as powerful as possible.
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