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New, Free Legislative Mapping Tool for Journalists Tracks Legislation Across Country, Providing a Visual Graphic to Share with Audiences.
DENVER, CO – LegiNation, the creators of BillTrack50, an online Federal and State legislative and regulatory tracking service known for innovative sharing tools, has introduced a new, free legislative mapping feature especially designed for journalists and news organizations to instantly “map” legislation on topics across the United States.
Called BillMap50, the internet-based tool provides an instant, visual heat map of legislation around the country on virtually any topic. Once the map is created, users can choose to generate a script to share the map on websites or blog posts to keep their audiences informed on national hot spots for legislation around any particular issue. BillMap50 also automatically keeps the map up to date as more bills are introduced for the current (or most recent) session.
“Good data is critical when sharing information, but increasingly advocates and journalists are looking for visual tools to share data with audiences,” said LegiNation founder and president Karen Suhaka. “We are excited to launch BillMap50 because it will give journalists and news organizations an easy way to create visually compelling information about legislation going on in real time to share,” she added. “Any way to get people informed and involved is a good thing.”
BillMap50 is available at https://www.billtrack50.com/map/query. Users simply enter a search term(s) and click “Map It” to generate a map of bills that include the term(s). Users then have the option to generate a script to add the map to websites, articles or blog posts.
“For today’s fast-changing world, this tool will give news outlets ongoing information about what’s going on for the topics they are covering,” Suhaka explained. “We’re very excited about this addition to our services because people need information to make better decisions. BillMap50 will provide it visually, and people understand the power of visualization in getting their points across.”
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About BillTrack50
Legination, Inc.is in business to make state legislation more readily available to all people. Their product BillTrack50 provides free online legislation research for all 50 states, DC, and Congress. The user-friendly service provides data and analytics that lets users track state bills, track federal bills, create bill alerts, find bill sponsors, research voting records, create bill tracking sheets across multiple states. BillTrack50 provides government transparency for both citizens and those with a professional interest. For more information, please visit www.billtrack50.com/about or contact Karen.
About BillTrack50 – BillTrack50 is a user friendly free service that provides legislation research in all 50 states and federally. BillTrack50 also offers legislation and regulation tracking across the nation with tools to help organization stay on top of changes (bill sheets and alerts) and share legislation they are tracking with key stakeholders (legislator scorecards, widgets and stakeholder pages). If you are interested in learning more about how BillTrack50 saves organizations time and money, sign up for a demo and try it out BillTrack50 Pro for a month, for free.