what would happen if... - karen suhaka
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- 1.
- 2. What would happen if
- Karen Suhaka
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- @smoodle
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- @billtrack50
- 3. What would happen if
- everybody actually knew what the government was doing?
- 4. How a bill becomes a law
- 5. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html
- 6. http://www.mikewirthart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/howlawsmadeWIRTH2.jpg
- 7. Legislators 65,570 Federal Lobbyists 28,000 State Level Lobbyists 163,925 Advocacy groups 22,000 PACs 4,618
- 8. We are stepping into the breech and also trying to make a living.
- 9. LegiNation, Inc.
- Founded April 2011
- Work started June 2011
- Privately funded July 2011
- First 100k Bills acquired Sept 2011
- Beta Scheduled Oct/Nov 2011
- Launch Planned Dec/Jan 2012
- Launch 2 Planned June/Jul 2012
- 10. Involvement
- Groups
- 11. Involvement
- Groups
- Initiatives
- 12. Products Online Legislative Tracking New Social Platform based on political information
- 13. BillTrack50 www.BillTrack50.com Bill Sheet with Alerts Search for and track bills of interest
- 14. BillTrack50 www.BillTrack50.com Bill Sheet with Alerts Search for and track bills of interest Stakeholder Page Securely share and discuss bill information
- 15. BillTrack50 www.BillTrack50.com Bill Sheet with Alerts Search for and track bills of interest Stakeholder Page Securely share and discuss bill information Widget Publically share bill information on your site
- 16. Chatterslate
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- Search for bills
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- See text, sponsors, votes, action history
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- Search for legislators
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- See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness, (legislator comments?)
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- Free for public, no registration required to search
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- IMDB for Legislation
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- 17. Chatterslate
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- Search for bills
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- See text, sponsors, votes, action history
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- Search for legislators
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- See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness, (legislator comments?)
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- Discuss
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- Dicussion threads about bills, topics, legislators
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- Text, YouTube, external
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- Organize
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- Stakeholder pages for groups, organization tools,
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- lobbyist matchmaker
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- Free for public, no registration required to search
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- IMDB for Legislation
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- 18. Chatterslate
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- Search for bills
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- See text, sponsors, votes, action history
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- Search for legislators
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- See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness, (legislator comments?)
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- Discuss
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- Dicussion threads about bills, topics, legislators
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- Text, YouTube, external
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- Organize
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- Stakeholder pages for groups, organization tools,
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- lobbyist matchmaker
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- Social Platform built around politics
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- Tweet/Facebook/Thumbs up bills, legislators, comments
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- Free for public, no registration required to search
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- IMDB for Legislation
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- 19. Progress and Plans
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- Compile Bill headers (120k and counting!)
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- Compile Bills (done)
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- Normalize data across states (done)
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- Normalize bill text (SLIM - in progress)
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- Build interface for Bill Track 50 (in progress) (target Jan 2012)
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- Build interface for Chatterslate (taking ideas) (target June 2012)
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- 20.
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- Need parsers
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- Need beta testers (BillTrack50)
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- Need content (Chatterslate)
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- Need customers and users
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- Need champions
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- Spread the word!
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- 21.
- [email_address]
- @BillTrack50
- www.facebook.com/LegiNation
- www.BillTrack50.com
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