Lobster's Automated Monitoring Tools
Political information is in constant change, and it can be hard to keep up with without the proper tools. With Lobster's automated monitoring, it is now easier to keep an eye on any topics relevant to your work in a fast, simple and effective way.
Lobster allows you to track:
- Your projects, get alerted on updates
- Legislative processes, always stay up to date with any changes and updates
- Groups of people, for example, get alerted when there are changes to the cabinet of a minister
Once you find something that you need to stay informed about, just click the Follow button under the title or in the Basic info section. Lobster will monitor this content and next time there is an update, you will be immediately notified by email.
Stay up-to-date on legislative projects
With Lobster, you can automatically track legislative processes from strategies and preparatory committees to legislative drafting. (Hankeikkuna).
Once you find a legislative process you want to track, click the Follow button under its title and you'll be automatically notified of any changes or updates in that particular project.
Track stakeholder groups with tags
With Lobster's tags, you can organise and track stakeholder groups relevant to you. For example, if your organisation advocates health-related causes, you can create a tag "MedicalProfessionals" and tag all the stakeholders with backgrounds in medical training with it.
In Lobster's data, we use tags mostly to manage groups of stakeholders and organisations such as MEPs of a particular country, members of a committee, and in some cases political advisors of MPs.
By following the relevant tags, you'll be notified when there are changes in these positions.
How to control your notifications
To manage your follows and notifications, go to the Follows -tab on your Lobster Dashboard. There you'll find all the content that you are following and can temporarily disable or permanently delete any notifications.
