LINCS Comms Shop

Welcome to the Legislative Staff Information and Communications (LINCS) Comms Shop, your source of information about how states around the country handle communications issues and functions. We compile information from our own research, and from responses we get from requests for information from our members. If you have any questions or wish to update information from your own comms shop, please contact Jennifer Stewart.

Communications Topics

Broadcasting and Streaming

• Closed captioning and streaming
• Facebook Live
• Legislative broadcasts and webcasts
• Livestreaming off-site
• Podcasting 
• Tips for hosting a successful online press conference

Crisis Communications

• Combating misinformation during an 'Infodemic'
• Communications during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Podcast: Managing crisis communications
• Blog: “Be First, Be Right, Be Credible” – Crisis Communications from the Legislature

Social Media

• Legislators' "mixed use" social media accounts
• Legislative social media sites

Other

• Communications staff structures
• Media access and credentialing
• Spokesperson Duties
• Wikipedia editing

2020 Fall Virtual Programming

View a multi-part series of interactive webinars and virtual trainings geared toward legislative communicators.