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Update Comments for Better Team Communication
A Central part of Lobster’s user interface is the Update Comment. Update comments will help your team members communicate the progress being made. The comments you write will be visible to your team members in the notifications menu, notification emails, and in the weekly email digest. How do Update Comments work? Every time you edit…
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10 Benefits of using Lobster
Now that your organisation has started using Lobster, what are the ways this new tool can make your work easier? We listed a few: 1 Easy access to up-to-date political stakeholder data will save your precious timeThe core of Lobster is the stakeholder data, which is kept meticulously up-to-date. With the key information in one…
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Lobster’s Search
Lobster is all about information, and the global search is the key to find the appropriate data. Lobster’s search has powerful capabilities to filter and find any object on Lobster.
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Adding organisations to a project
Organisations are vital for lobbyists as stakeholders get their mandate to, for example, draft legislation by their position in a given organisation. Lobster has a ready-made database of organisations and organisation structures. The database and additions to it give the possibility to easily add organisations to projects. This article describes the way organisations can be…
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Adding stakeholders to a project
Adding stakeholders to a project is possible from three places on Lobster. Project’s overview page Project’s stakeholder tab Stakeholder’s Projects tab From the organisation’s project tab (add all organisation’s stakeholders) This post will walk you through with each of the options, and you can click items on the above list to jump to the method…
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Adding connections between stakeholders
Lobster has a feature to illustrate connections between stakeholders. This can be useful, for example, when there is a need to see if Lobster’s user is well enough connected to the key players in her field, or there is a need to illustrate to a client or a board member the connections of a politician…
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Adding a stakeholder to organisations
After saving a new stakeholder the next view is the profile of added stakeholder. The view has all the added information and multiple tabs to facilitate different stakeholder related information from different part of Lobster. To see how to add a new stakeholder, please see this blog: Adding a stakeholder. In most cases, it is…
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Adding a stakeholder
Adding a stakeholder is convenient as it is possible to do anywhere in the system. Every Lobster page has a blue circle with a plus sign on it on the top right corner.
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Action and how to create one
Actions will become very familiar to Lobster users as they are at the core of the lobbying work. Actions are stakeholder meetings, events, campaigns and other internal or external meetings related to your lobbying projects. Adding actions to Lobster will give your team a heads up on upcoming stakeholder meetings, in case they have an…
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TODO and how to create one
TODOs help your team plan future activities by delegating tasks to different team members. Each TODO is connected to a Project, and therefore, TODOs helps to structure the progress of projects. To create a new TODO just click the circle with + button on the top right of any page and select Add new TODO…
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Project and how to create one
Projects are where most of the work happens. This is where you plan, coordinate and track the progress of your lobbying campaigns. All actions such as stakeholder meetings are reported as part of a project. In Lobster, a project is always part of a larger theme. Compared to a theme, a project has a more…
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Theme-Project-TODO-Action
The process of Theme-Project-TODO-Action is the backbone of Lobster. It gives possibility to have clear structure with ways and means to facilitate different operating models.
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Master data: Organisations
Organisations are another key part of Master data alongside stakeholders. From organisations’ profiles Lobster users can find, among others, stakeholders, organisation charts and contact information.
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Master Data package helps to focus on the right stakeholders
Master Data allows Lobster users to get to know the stakeholders directly in Lobster. This allows focusing on designing and implementing advocacy projects instead of using time on background work on influencers.
