Legislation doesn’t get passed in a vacuum—the path to progress starts with building a winning coalition. To move your public policy agenda forward, you need to partner with anyone—and everyone—who can help you influence the outcome.
Whether you need to work with lobbyists, attorneys, government relations professionals, organizers, or volunteers, connecting all of the key players so you engage stakeholders in meaningful ways is critical.
Plural is legislative tracking software with built-in workflow and collaboration features—called Workspaces—that help you keep your team on the same page across all of your issues. Think of Workspaces as the digital conference room you gather everyone who matters in to have conversations. Workspaces is where you meet to plan strategies, share updates and assign tasks across your team.
But instead of living inside an office, this conference room is digital. Even better, it’s a central digital repository for the many ongoing conversations across teams who need to collaborate on public policy anytime from anywhere.
How Workspaces Work
The tools and strategies that have gotten the job done in the past are being rapidly outpaced by techniques that rely on digital collaboration. Not too long ago, you may have sat around a table with your colleagues sifting through this session’s relevant bills. You discussed which ones you were against, which ones were your priority, and even went through each bill’s language line by line, flagging on-point phrases and striking restrictive ones.
Along the way, you assigned your team key tasks like following up with government relations staff at aligned organizations and designating roles like leading your team on an issue nationwide.
Plural lets you do all that remotely in a digital platform, where every conversation, every note, every action item is captured, organized, and tracked in one place where stakeholders can access the information they need and act on it.
With Plural, you can quickly and easily create Workspaces for specific teams to collaborate based on:
- Issue
Create Workspaces for an issue—criminal justice reform, healthcare, or clean energy—to keep relevant information organized and easily accessible.
- Region
Give team members working on federal or state issues their own spaces. (National organizations usually set up workspaces for their state chapters.)
- Role
Connect everyone with similar responsibilities—lobbyists, lawyers, clients, interns—in one spot to facilitate sharing ideas.
In addition to receiving automated notifications about the status of bills your team is tracking, you can use Plural’s Tags feature within a Workspace to draw attention to a bill, assign the next action step to a client, or categorize legislation by priority and policy stance.
The Minnesota Nurses Association of Minnesota created a Workspace called Reports. Instead of communicating back and forth in email, their team gets a notification when a lobbyist working on behalf of the association shares a daily report of relevant legislation activities. With relevant public policy information housed where it belongs, the association members no longer have to search through never-ending email chains to find what they need.
More Ways to Use Workspaces
Law firms often create a Workspace for each of their clients, either using the space to stay updated on all the moving pieces on their behalf or inviting their clients to collaborate with them on pieces of legislation.
Coalitions, like the Partnership on Waste Management in the Twin Cities, often use Workspaces to track various public policy initiatives, breaking them out by issues like recycling and waste.
“Plural helped America Votes Georgia and our partners become more coordinated than ever. At the end of the day, we could log on to Plural and get a rundown on everything happening under the Gold Dome.”
— Ashley Robinson, Executive Director at Progress Georgia, and previously at America Votes Georgia
Changing How Public Policy Teams Collaborate
Plural designed Workspaces to support effective democratic processes by encouraging access, collaboration and inclusion in policy discussion. Winning public policy battles is hard work, but thanks to Workspaces, collaboration with everyone on your public policy team is easier than ever.
Plural is intuitive and easy to use, so teams can collaborate in digital Workspaces right away.
Even better, the solution comes with unlimited users. Public policy teams can foster connections, exchange information, and work together to make lasting change without having to pick and choose who gets a license.
There’s no doubt that moving from an in-person conference room to a shared digital workspace is transforming how public policy work gets done. See how Workspaces can help you take your public policy work to the next level—get started with Plural today.
Learn More About Plural
Plural helps busy public policy professionals advance their issues by providing the most intelligent, streamlined, and collaborative public policy tracking platform available.
- Save time with automated legislative tracking
- Streamline workflows so you can respond effectively and quickly to change
- Synchronize team and partner strategy using shared workspaces
- Collaborate with internal and external teams without limit
- Modernize your team’s processes with on-demand training and support
