Legislata for Campaigns
Here’s what Legislata is and how it can help you
“‘Campaigns are chaos. It’s normal!’ No… it doesn’t have to be like this!” - Campaign Manager, State-level election
Running without all the hassle
Political campaigns are major undertakings performed in a small and intense time window. You have to connect with voters, civic leaders, other elected officials, and the press. For many candidates, this is done on a shoestring and fit in around your existing work. While there are existing software solutions for voter outreach and fundraising, we know that there’s a lot more to campaigning than that.
Here are three ways that Legislata can help those on the ballot:
Coordinate work across a widespread team
Keep track of notes and press clippings
Get your message out there
Coordinate work across a distributed team
There are not many areas in which the work of political campaigns were decades ahead of the rest of society, but running distributed teams is one of them. We may still rely on printed out call sheets, but other companies moving to abandon the single office would do well to look to how political campaigns managed field offices, volunteers met in their own homes, and national organizations managed millions of voter contacts during a pandemic.
Keeping everyone aligned can be a challenge in this environment. Luckily, Legislata makes it easy to delegate tasks to your entire team, have visibility on progress, and see what areas are causing the most work. Get away from the constant back and forths or searching for who said they’d do what and let our tasks view give you the headspace to focus on what matters.
Keep track of notes and press clippings
Running a campaign is not simply cutting turf and knocking on doors. Strategy meeting notes, drafts of press releases, policy briefings, prep for tomorrow’s meetings - all can mean drowning in paper (or the digital equivalent). Finding what you need later can be impossible - especially if you didn’t take the notes yourself and they were emailed to you or sent as a link in a message. It can be even harder to keep track of news items you need to be aware of, like press clippings.
Luckily, Legislata lets you keep and share notes and anything else you need to remember. Even better, everything can be associated with the legislation, issue, category, person, or organization it relates to. No more searching through a dozen folders to find the agenda from the meeting about potholes only to remember it’s in you inbox. A quick filter for “potholes” in your Legislata office and there you have it.
Even better, you can receive an alert on anything that’s of particular importance to you. If you’re a comms director and you want to be alerted everytime someone sees a press mention, no more need for texts, emails, or messages to let you know about it. Whoever sees it first can create a post in Legislata, tag it with “press hit”, and you’ll be sent a notification. Minimal fuss for maximum productivity.
Get your message out
We help you share and collaborate with others - including staying up to date with what’s happening in your networks and letting others know what you think.
Join an offices about your political networks, from geography to issue-based, or create your own if one doesn’t yet exist. Upload your statements, press releases, testimony, or events and tag it with what they relate to. Everyone else will see what you have to say and those who care enough about those issues to have set up alerts will be notified.
No more sending out a press release on infrastructure and hope it get picked up by the press so infrastructure enthusiasts see it. Upload it, tag it “infrastructure”, and they’ll get an alert instantaneously. Or if you have to change the time of a campaign event, load it with “time change” and ensure that journalists know the right time to show up.
You can also email your statements to statements@legislata.com and we’ll post and tag it for you.
How to sign up?
If you want to get started right away, you can go to app.legislata.com and create an account (currently, it only works on desktop, not mobile). You can also request to join offices sharing information about different geographies, or create your own and invite others to follow you.
It’s free to join and you can select Team or Pro in the Office page to start your free four-week trial of those premium tiers.
Additional tidbits
A full user guide is available here.
A tutorial video series is here.
You can check out our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy (and Privacy Policy for California) and our FAQs to learn more about it.
You can request a personal demonstration here.
