# Cool Campaigning Tools Findings
Any self-respecting digital organizer has in mind the logical structure of technologies necessary to run a successful political campaign. We all know the different political crms available, powerful fundraising tools, main canvassing applications, etc.

This list is intended to be more casual, and to contribute to sharing those small great findings that show us the exciting advancement of the digital campaigning technology sector.

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## [Remesh](https://remesh.ai/)
Remesh allows you to open simultaneous conversations with up to 1000 participants and to extract meaning and patterns from them, thanks to the support of its AI. It brings valuable knowledge for making better decisions. It can be used both for testing messages among the targeted audience and for running consultations with your supporters. It facilitates harvesting qualitative insights on a big scale in AI-powered real-time analysis.

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## [Howspace](https://www.howspace.com/)

Howspace lets you create easily configurable spaces for campaigns that allow for an opening to participating dialogue processes, e.g. decentralised decision making; to set interactive supporters journeys, leaders identification and onboarding processes; to create a social learning environment to easily build community around specific topics that matters the movement, to facilitate workshops & events, and to even organise collective actions. Moreover, it is AI-powered and incorporates outstanding tools to create Summaries, Clustering, Word Cloud, etc. to help manage massive participation, especially for the extraction of consensus from conversations.
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## [CitizenLab](https://www.citizenlab.co/)
A very comprehensive and advanced community platform that allows you to engage and organise your supporters' groups through tools like participatory proposals, volunteering opportunities, participative budgeting, collective ideation tools, online workshops, Q&A, mapping, options analysis, quick polling, surveys, etc. And, with CitizenLab, you have the potential to collect new ideas, receive feedback on your plans, gather votes to measure support, organise collective action, as well as identify, and get in touch with local leaders and others.

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| Add your inputs here | It's also a great tool for bottom-up decision/strategy participation as it has several interesting features, besides direct polling, to help extract useful insights, like AI-powered analytics with natural language processing, and comprehensive reports. | Add your inputs here |

## [Deck](https://www.deck.tools/)

Deck is a targeting web app that provides specific data for each district to inform the campaign who to reach, how the vote will turn out, and who would vote for the campaign, as well as information such as who would make a contribution and who could be open to persuasion.
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## [VideoAsk](https://www.videoask.com/)

Its features include interactive video forms in which users can respond by sending their own videos. They provide a unique experience indeed and in our opinion they have great potential for campaigning and political organizations.

Human contact is a key component for the ability to build relationships in digital organising. VideoAsk is a perfect tool to scale these qualities up, especially for first contacts, volunteer onboarding processes, or collecting testimonials.

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## [Hivebrite](https://hivebrite.com/)

With Hivebrite you can launch your own community portal. All-in-one solution with various features: events, forums, opportunities/projects, jobs openings, feeds, news, custom pages, payments, memberships, donations... and it allows creating groups with the same tools available. Which is a superpower for organising community in a distributed way.
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## [Polis](https://pol.is/home)
Polis facilitates crowdsourced policy debates that remain polite and reach consensus. It also maps groups of like-minded participants and their relationships with other groups. This intelligently makes it easy to identify areas of consensus and disputation. Polis is open-source software, and can be embedded in any website.
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## [Loomio](https://www.loomio.com/)
This platform allows you to bring quality group discussions online and help groups reach decisions in a consensual way. You can create groups and subgroups, various polls, and discussion threads. Very interesting for group work in the line of distributed and decentralised organising. A very noteworthy detail is that it integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams, which can mitigate the effort of moving participants to new workspaces.

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## [PolicyMogul](https://policymogul.com/)

PolicyMogul allows you to monitor the entire policy landscape for any topic of interest. You can monitor all official political sources, including consultations, legislation, events, and parliamentary records, as well as political commentators on Twitter. You can also set up email alerts at a frequency of your choice. But even more exciting, you can use the platform to identify specific political stakeholders relevant to each of your interests or campaigns.
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| Add your inputs here | One disadvantage is that it is currently focused only on the UK market | Add your inputs here |

## [Enview BY CivicEagle](https://www.civiceagle.com/)
Enview is a powerful tool specific for US legislation. As they claim, it can help lobbyists, policy professionals and government affairs teams to improve the way they discover, analyze, and manage state and federal legislation. It has some noteworthy features like the possibility of creating alerts for bills.
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## [Factmata](https://factmata.com/) - A solution for fighting disinformation

Factmata can help organizations maintain an advantageous position in the public conversations that take place around the most important topics for their campaigns. Not only specifically detecting sources of disinformation but also detecting trends to take advantage of, actors with whom to ally and monitoring the progress of the balance of supporters and detractors.

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## **[Streak](https://www.streak.com/)**

If Gmail is your email client software, Streak can help a lot in this process. It is an interesting tool designed to set up a CRM just on top of your emails. This means you can configure follow-up pipelines, assign tasks (yes, you can pass conversations to different members of your organisation), and organize relationship building in an advanced way.

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