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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.

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

Sync ControlShift Events to ActionNetwork 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.

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?

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 beco...

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:

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 eve...

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:

Getting Started with Distributed Organizing: Petitions Download this guide for examples, checklists, and tips to transform your organizing program into a scaled, distributed, and member-led force for change.