Corporate

What is Bang the Table?

Bang the Table is a new tool for engaging in a conversation with your community of interest.

A Bang the Table webpage is a portal for community access to your project. Each webpage features:

  • A place to store your frequently asked questions.
  • A library for all of your documents, video, media releases etc.
  • A list of key dates for your project or program.
  • A list of survey questions.
  • A sophisticated interactive forum which links discussion topics to library items, project team members, key dates, surveys and external websites.
  • Identification and password protected access of your internal stakeholders.
  • Sophisticated reporting of site usage patterns and community views.

What is the Rationale for Bang the Table?

Bang the Table is a C21st service industry operating at the intersection of three social trends:

  • Growing public expectations of business and government;
  • Increasingly hectic personal schedules and commensurate elevation of expectations regarding service convenience; and
  • Rapidly expanding acceptance and use of electronic communication systems.

1. Decision making transparency is increasingly a reality of C21st business. Community will not accept anything less than open and honest communication with proponents of major change, whether business or government. Governments change on the back of poorly communicated policies. A business's brand and bottom line can suffer short or long term damage due to poor communication on major projects.

2. On the other hand, people are increasingly time poor; and busy people simply don't have the time or inclination to get involved in time hungry and inconvenient consultation exercises. We expect to be consulted at our convenience. The era of the Town Hall meeting at 7 o'clock on a Tuesday evening is long gone. Today's community is used to instant access and instant feedback.

3. The past decade has seen an explosion in the use of electronic communications systems. Since 2000 the number of households with access to the internet has grown by 70% from 3.4million to 5.8million. Today the vast majority of Australians now have access to the internet either at home, work, school, or the public library.

Why Bang the Table is good for business

For governments, Bang the Table will improve your relationship with the public by providing greater access to the views and ideas of the electorate.

For corporate clients, Bang the Table will add significant value to existing consultation and public relations processes by opening up the market for ideas beyond the "usual suspects" for contributions to the debate.

Bang the Table will:

  • Provide dramatic savings on the marginal cost of accessing new members of the community compared to existing consultation strategies.
  • Improve both the reality and appearance of your accessibility to your community.
  • Improve the credibility of your online consultation compared to corporate websites by using independent moderators.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to leading practice community engagement.
  • Expand the accessible stakeholder pool dramatically by allowing the time-poor to get involved at their discretion.
  • Widen the range of views, ideas and questions; leading to improved decision making, better communications planning, and a more well rounded notion of community opinion.
  • Allow for 24/7 year long engagement with your community of interest.

Who should use Bang the Table?

  • If you have a community of interest that you need to listen to, then you should use Bang the Table.
  • If your business has an impact on people's lives, then you should use Bang the Table.
  • If you need to involve the community in your decisions, then you should use Bang the Table.
  • If you are a group, club or collective, and are interested in collaborative decision making, then you should use Bang the Table.
  • If you have a large project team who need a place to share information in private, then you should use Bang the Table.

At Bang the Table we believe that the collective mind is more powerful than the individual. So, whether you need to harness the power of the collective, or demonstrate a commitment to community engagement, Bang the Table can save you time and money, and improve your decision making and public persona.

Licensing Opportunities

At Bang the Table we are always keen to work with like minded individuals and companies everywhere.

If your business involves helping people work together, then maybe we can work together.

We provide low cost access to a market leading, high value service.