# Blog

> Product updates, compliance guidance, and thinking on the craft of public affairs.

- URL: https://lobster.ist/blog/
- Language: English
- Also in Finnish: https://lobster.ist/fi/blog/

- [Lobster speaks MCP now — let your AI agent run the routines and free yourself for the real work](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobster-speaks-mcp-now-let-your-ai-agent-run-the-routines-and-free-yourself-for-the-real-work/) — 2026-06-26 — Lobster now speaks MCP: connect the AI assistant you already use to handle routine public-affairs record-keeping while you focus on the real work.
- [Lobster makes Transparency Register reporting effortless](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobster-makes-transparency-register-reporting-effortless/) — 2025-09-19 — Lobster’s bulk transfer feature makes biannual Transparency Register reporting faster, easier and more reliable.
- [Automating Transparency Register Reporting: How Smart Organisations Use Lobster to Save Time and Ensure Compliance](https://lobster.ist/blog/automating-transparency-register-reporting-how-smart-organisations-use-lobster-to-save-time-and-ensure-compliance/) — 2025-05-21 — How smart organisations use Lobster to automate Transparency Register reporting, saving time and ensuring compliance.
- [GDPR-Compliant Stakeholder Data: A Simple Maintenance Routine for Political Stakeholder Tracking](https://lobster.ist/blog/gdpr-compliant-stakeholder-data-a-simple-maintenance-routine-for-political-stakeholder-tracking/) — 2025-02-18 — A simple twice-yearly maintenance routine, powered by Lobster’s GDPR tools, keeps your political stakeholder data compliant.
- [CSRD is Coming – Is Your Organisation Ready?](https://lobster.ist/blog/cscr-is-coming-is-your-organisation-ready/) — 2024-11-25 — The CSRD’s ESRS G1-5 disclosure requires structured reporting of lobbying activity — here’s how Lobster helps you prepare.
- [Lobster’s New Summary Report: Get a Comprehensive View of Your Lobbying Efforts](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobsters-new-summary-report/) — 2024-09-12 — Lobster’s new summary report gives you a clear overview of where your lobbying has been directed and who you’ve met.
- [Navigating Transparency: SuomiAreena 2024 and the New Finnish Lobbying Laws](https://lobster.ist/blog/navigating-transparency-suomiareena-2024-and-the-new-finnish-lobbying-laws/) — 2024-06-24 — SuomiAreena 2024 meets Finland’s new Transparency Register law, and Lobster’s Quick Report makes compliance effortless.
- [The Transparency Register is Coming – Is Your Organisation Ready?](https://lobster.ist/blog/the-transparency-register-is-coming-is-your-organisation-ready/) — 2023-06-20 — Finland’s statutory transparency register arrives in 2024 — here’s how your organisation can prepare with Lobster.
- [Introducing Pinning to Timelines](https://lobster.ist/blog/introducing-pinning-to-timelines/) — 2022-09-13 — Lobster now lets you pin news, tweets and links to project timelines, giving your team a full picture of what’s happening.
- [Bring Your Political Monitoring into the Digital Era](https://lobster.ist/blog/political-monitoring/) — 2022-06-03 — Bring political monitoring into the digital era and let Lobster automatically track the stakeholders, news and topics relevant to your work.
- [Update Comments for Better Team Communication](https://lobster.ist/blog/update-comments/) — 2022-04-27 — How Lobster’s Update Comments keep your team informed about the progress being made on your lobbying work.
- [10 Benefits of Using Lobster](https://lobster.ist/blog/10-benefits-of-using-lobster/) — 2022-03-07 — Now that your organisation uses Lobster, here are ten ways it makes public affairs work faster, better coordinated and easier to report.
- [What is the GDPR footprint of your advocacy work?](https://lobster.ist/blog/what-is-the-gdpr-footprint-of-your-advocacy-work/) — 2021-11-11 — Know your GDPR footprint and keep stakeholder data compliant with the new Lobster GDPR Audit feature.
- [The Danger of the Forgotten Stakeholder List](https://lobster.ist/blog/the-danger-of-the-forgotten-stakeholder-list/) — 2021-09-02 — A forgotten, outdated stakeholder list is a real GDPR risk, here are best practices to protect your organisation.
- [Successful Lobbying Teams Plan, Measure and Learn](https://lobster.ist/blog/successful-lobbying-teams-plan-measure-and-learn/) — 2021-03-05 — Research shows that successful public affairs campaigns are planned, measured and data-driven, not improvised.
- [Lobster’s Stakeholder Profiles – All the relevant up-to-date information in one package](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobsters-stakeholder-profiles-all-the-relevant-up-to-date-information-in-one-package/) — 2021-03-04 — Lobster's stakeholder profiles gather all the relevant, up-to-date information on politicians and officials in one package.
- [Lobster’s Twitter integration: Never miss an opportunity for conversation](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobsters-twitter-integration-never-miss-an-opportunity-for-conversation/) — 2021-02-08 — Lobster's Twitter integration tracks the tweets of political stakeholders so you never miss an opportunity for conversation.
- [Lobster reports: The Big Picture of Your Organisations Stakeholder Activities](https://lobster.ist/blog/lobster-reports-the-big-picture-of-your-organisations-stakeholder-activities/) — 2021-02-03 — Meet Lobster's new and improved reports that give you the big picture of your organisation's stakeholder activities.
- [Calendar Exports Now Available at Lobster](https://lobster.ist/blog/calendar-exports-now-available-at-lobster/) — 2021-01-19 — Lobster now lets you export any action to your own or shared company calendar at the push of a button.
- [Evolution of the Lobster user interface](https://lobster.ist/blog/evolution-of-lobster-user-interface/) — 2020-10-07 — A tour of the user interface improvements shipped with the project goals release, from cleaner tabs to inline editing.
- [Lobster’s Search](https://lobster.ist/blog/global-search/) — 2020-05-22 — An overview of Lobster's quick and extended search, powerful filters, and multipick tools for finding and acting on any data.
- [Adding organisations to a project](https://lobster.ist/blog/adding-organisations-to-a-project/) — 2020-05-15 — How to add organisations to a project in Lobster using the ready-made organisation database and the Organisation Picker.
- [Adding stakeholders to a project](https://lobster.ist/blog/adding-stakeholders-to-a-project/) — 2020-05-10 — A step-by-step guide to the four ways you can add stakeholders to a project in Lobster, including the Stakeholder Picker.
- [Adding connections between stakeholders](https://lobster.ist/blog/adding-connections-between-stakeholders/) — 2020-05-01 — How to add and visualise connections between stakeholders in Lobster, including assistants and political advisers.
- [Adding a stakeholder](https://lobster.ist/blog/adding-a-stakeholder/) — 2020-04-30 — A step-by-step guide to adding a new stakeholder in Lobster, from name and contact details to description and CV.
- [Adding a stakeholder to organisations](https://lobster.ist/blog/adding-a-stakeholder-to-organisations/) — 2020-04-30 — How to connect a stakeholder to one or more organisations in Lobster and set their current and primary positions.
- [Action and how to create one](https://lobster.ist/blog/action-and-how-to-create-one/) — 2020-04-02 — Actions are the stakeholder meetings and events at the core of lobbying work in Lobster — learn how to create one.
- [TODO and how to create one](https://lobster.ist/blog/todo-and-how-to-create-one/) — 2020-04-01 — TODOs help your team plan and delegate project tasks in Lobster — learn how to create one and work with it.
- [Project and how to create one](https://lobster.ist/blog/project-and-how-to-create-one/) — 2020-03-31 — Projects are where lobbying work happens in Lobster — learn what a project is and how to create one under a theme.
- [Theme and how to create one](https://lobster.ist/blog/theme-and-how-to-create-one/) — 2020-03-31 — Themes are broad strategic lobbying goals in Lobster — learn what they are and how to create your first one.
- [Theme-Project-TODO-Action](https://lobster.ist/blog/theme-project-todo-action/) — 2020-03-30 — Themes, Projects, TODOs and Actions form the backbone of Lobster's lobbying process — here's how the four building blocks fit together.
- [Improved timeline](https://lobster.ist/blog/improved-timeline/) — 2020-03-22 — A refreshed Lobster timeline gives a clearer overview of actions, events and TODOs across themes, projects, stakeholders and organisations.
- [Master data: Organisations](https://lobster.ist/blog/master-data-organisations/) — 2020-01-28 — How Lobster's Master Data organises governmental and non-governmental bodies, their sub-organisations and the stakeholders attached to them.
- [Master Data package helps to focus on the right stakeholders](https://lobster.ist/blog/master-data-package-helps-to-focus-on-the-right-stakeholders/) — 2019-10-28 — Lobster's up-to-date Master Data package gives ready-made profiles of MEPs, ministers, commissioners and officials so you can focus on advocacy.