ControlShift

12/27/2023

As 2023 draws to a close, we're taking a look back on some of the great organizing work our partners around the world did in the last year! Check it out:

As 2023 comes to an end, we’re taking some time to look back on all of the amazing organizing work that’s been done over the last 12 months. As is often the case, the last year saw a lot of hard fought battles. Organizing work is never done, and it’s important for us to pause to celebrate the ...

05/15/2023

Events mobilizations can be a powerful way of demonstrating your supporters' commitment to a cause.

We've released new features to make coalition-led event mobilizations even more powerful.

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 organizatio...

03/17/2023

Partnerships are a great way for organizations to scale their organizing, find new supporters, and demonstrate broad support for an issue.

ControlShift's partnerships features are now even more collaborative – supporting multi-partnership 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 bas...

03/14/2023

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In our testing, a picture is worth three times as many petition signatures and increased conversions from social sharing.

That's why we've integrated with a free image library to help leaders choose the best images for their petitions and events. Check it out!

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...

12/14/2021

New ControlShift customers can now choose whether their data is stored in Europe or North America. Read more:

https://www.controlshiftlabs.com/2021/12/14/european-data-center.html

12/13/2021

We're celebrating a decade of making social movements and causes more distributed and participatory at ControlShift:

https://www.controlshiftlabs.com/.../controlshift-at-ten...

It's been an honor to have been able to serve so many of you and make your supporters a bit more powerful in the world for this long. Thank you.

07/14/2021

Our data sync for ActionNetwork now supports Events and Event Campaigns in addition to Petitions.

We’ve added support to our ActionNetwork sync to allow customers to integrate ControlShift Events and Calendars with ActionNetwork Events and Event Campaigns via an API data sync.

07/09/2021

We wrote up all of the strategies we could think of that organizations use to solicit the creation of new petitions:

https://www.controlshiftlabs.com/2021/07/01/strategies-to-drive-petition-creation.html

Are there any that we missed?

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 beco...

06/29/2021

We redesigned the user interface that supporters use to create their own petitions.

The result? A 23% increase in member led campaigns for progressive change:

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 eve...

05/03/2021

Join us tomorrow on Zoom learn about organizing days of action and other sorts of distributed events using ControlShift:

Join the ControlShift team's office hours. During this call we'll talk about calendars, but we'll also have time for questions. The calendars feature allows organizations to support days of action or other groupings events. These events normally share a theme, have their own lookup page, and their o...

04/13/2021

Through careful design and A/B tests we've refined the experience supporters have after they sign a petition or attend an event.

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.

03/18/2021

We wrote up a getting started guide for others to learn how progressive advocacy organizations are using ControlShift to transform their organizing program into a scaled, distributed, and member-led force for change.

Insights on getting started with member led petitions with both audience growth & deep engagement as goals:

Download this guide for examples, checklists, and tips to transform your organizing program into a scaled, distributed, and member-led force for change.