1. Not promoting it   The first tip is super-straightforward, but it is so important yet so often overlooked that it is worth mentioning first.  Once you create a Facebook page it…

We've always really liked the way the portfolio section of our website works.  Even though we've redesigned our site several times over the years, we've kept the same layout and functio…

Last night I had the pleasure of giving a talk on 'Functional Programming' techniques in JavaScript and PHP with an emphasis on the popular libraries underscore.js and underscore.php. The even…

UPDATE: This article is a follow-up to an earlier article on our blog about the NGP contribution API written by Eli Van Zoeren. We have since updated the code we use to integrate with NGP's …

One of the joys of programming is that no matter how simple a problem may seem there are always tons of ways to solve it. It can be good practice to go back and revisit fundamentals by solving…

A little while ago, we received a form submission on our website that struck my curiousity: Hi, I just wanted to let you know that you have a broken link on an old entry of yours, here:w…

A lot of people, including us, are putting more emphasis on mobile website design because of the increasing frequency of readers viewing content on mobile devices. People are doing much more…

2011 was an exciting (and fast) year for NMC!  Our company added new team members, launched sites for organizations around the world, strengthened our product offering, and sparked some e…

We recently built a mobile website for YourTown CMS in partnership with Liaison Design Group. We've had increasing demand for mobile web development lately, and we're particularly excited to…

As one of the most popular CMSs in the world, Wordpress is used everywhere, from the smallest non-profits to top political campaign websites. Unfortunately there are a lot of very common mist…

We're excited to announce that clients for whom NMC acted as the primary online campaign consultants went 8-2 in this year's general elections!  We had races across the country and are pr…

We are excited to announce that our team has moved to a new location in downtown Carrboro.  We spent the previous three years in a building about a mile away from our new location -- ou…

Campaign season is heating up so much that it's easy to forget that there are still 13 months until the 2012 election.  While challengers need to be working to raise their name ID, spre…

We're looking for a marketing intern to start more or less immediately. We really pride ourselves on providing a valuable, fun, and paid internship experience. If you found this and don't k…

Tomorrow, I'll be traveling up to Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire to participate on a panel about the evolving role of social media in political campaigns.  The panel is called "Cli…

Last week we released a mobile client for the website Hacker News. We've been huge fans of the site since our earliest startup days and most of us check up on it at least a couple times a we…

Earlier this year, we saw an opportunity to build a site where businesses could post and share local news and press releases. Many of the sites in this space were badly outdated, too commercia…

We recently designed and developed a web application for a United Auto Workers (UAW) internal campaign. Learn how we send supporter registrations to Salsa Labs' API with PHP and cURL.

Today we're launching a brand new version of the New Media Campaigns website.  Since we launched over five years ago, there have been a total of five versions, the last version lasting …

New Media Campaigns recently spoke with members of the local chapter of the Legal Marketing Association during their monthly meeting. While the entire conversation centered on social media and…