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
Milestones
10. Involvement
Groups
Conferences Gov 2.0a In OKC
11. Involvement
Groups
Initiatives
Conferences Gov 2.0a In OKC http://legix.info/ SLIM XML standard
for bills
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
Search for bills
See text, sponsors, votes, action history
Search for legislators
See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness,
(legislator comments?)
Free for public, no registration required to search
IMDB for Legislation
17. Chatterslate
Search for bills
See text, sponsors, votes, action history
Search for legislators
See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness,
(legislator comments?)
Discuss
Dicussion threads about bills, topics, legislators
Text, YouTube, external
Organize
Stakeholder pages for groups, organization tools,
lobbyist matchmaker
Free for public, no registration required to search
IMDB for Legislation
18. Chatterslate
Search for bills
See text, sponsors, votes, action history
Search for legislators
See bills authored and sponsored, vote history, effectiveness,
(legislator comments?)
Discuss
Dicussion threads about bills, topics, legislators
Text, YouTube, external
Organize
Stakeholder pages for groups, organization tools,
lobbyist matchmaker
Social Platform built around politics
Tweet/Facebook/Thumbs up bills, legislators, comments
Free for public, no registration required to search
IMDB for Legislation
19. Progress and Plans
Compile Bill headers (120k and counting!)
Compile Bills (done)
Normalize data across states (done)
Normalize bill text (SLIM - in progress)
Build interface for Bill Track 50 (in progress) (target Jan
2012)
Build interface for Chatterslate (taking ideas) (target June
2012)
