Exploring our People Database (Devolved)
In this video, I walk you through our comprehensive people database, which includes information on MPs, Lords, civil servants, and councillors, with a focus on filtering for Scottish National Party members. I demonstrate how to access detailed profiles, including biographies, contact details, and group affiliations. Additionally, I explain how to create contact activities to record interactions with these individuals. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with these features, as they will enhance our engagement with key political figures. Your feedback on this process would be greatly appreciated.
Last updated 5 months ago
Transcript:
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Our people database covers MPs, Lords, civil servants, councillors, and then residing constituencies. So in here, I can filter for a view of Scottish National Party individuals.
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In the filter set here, SNP, for example, shows me Scottish National Party members. Apply the filter, and it will return with a table of members of the party.
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Not all of which will have a photo, but the ones that do are present, and will give you information around, obviously, their name, addressable title, constituency that they're responsible for, obviously the party we just filtered for, the job, and particular job for the individual.
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and the region in which they reside. So if I look at this gentleman here, view the profile. And what we have is a proprietary set of information that the team have compiled as a, as a biography for the individual, um, depending on how long the person's been in service, their role, um, influence they
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have, these are either richer or more populated or a little bit more concise. As is this one and in the platform.
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What you're able to do here is view, as I said, political career predominantly background of the individual, a bit more top level information, contact details, a link to their ex profile there and then actually see and view groups in which this particular individual is, uh, a part of within your company
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. So these groups wouldn't necessarily have been created by you as a user. These are groups that would have been created by colleagues that actually you have visibility of and then can see the entire information.
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When you go and view, what you can also do is create a contact activity against the individual, uh, which is effectively a note or record against the person that you would like to record having had some sort of interaction with them, be it a letter you've sent out, uh, a brief conversation.
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Anything you've sent them, an email you've received from them, an event invite, date on which you, uh, recorded it, particular topic, any note, and then any sort of supplementary attachments there as well.