The World’s Best Public Health Social Media Campaigns
The best public health social media campaigns continually adapt to rolling, and unexpected, trends in social media usage.
Dr Crispin Butteriss
Crispin is a founding director of Bang the Table and the Chief Practice Officer.
Fake news: is it a threat to public participation?
Where satire attempts to undermine autocracy and prejudice; the worst of fake news feeds into prejudices and seeks to create community outrage and undermine public confidence.
Online deliberation: a literature review
Online deliberation has attracted a great deal of academic attention over the past two decades as various governments have explored its potential to contribute to public policy development.
What is community engagement, exactly?
Every profession answers the question “What is community engagement” differently. Even those within the community engagement sector, cannot agree.
Lessons from citizen science for community engagement practice
Citizen science is also called public participation in scientific research. So there would seem to be a natural nexus between it and community engagement practice.
Five books about public participation
We’re at it again. Curating a list of the best public participation books of the past year; a follow-up to our popular Top 5 Public Participation Books From 2014 post. In order to do so, we’ve scoured the internet far and wide for the books that will make you think differently about public participation and help inspire, […]
Digital Audience Engagement For The Performing Arts Sector
The pressure on the arts and culture sector to justify its existence is unremitting. Digital audience engagement and community engagement are an avenue for performing arts centres to reach their communities beyond the confines of a bricks and mortar reality. I was recently invited to present at a Melbourne gathering of managers of performing arts centres […]
Celebrating 8-Years Of Banging The Table!
It’s eight years to the day since Bang the Table was registered as a business with the Australian Taxation Office. What grew from nothing, is now an international business with entities registered in Australia, India, Canada, the UK and, most recently, the USA. We have employees in three countries, serve clients in five countries, and […]
6 Ways To Use Video For Online Community Engagement
Digital video is one of the leading ways to drive online engagement. The statistics don’t lie with website pages containing video attracting more traffic, users spending more time on pages with video content and people more likely to click on an email link containing a video. The percentage of internet users consuming video content online is […]
4 Ways Behavioural Insights to Improve Citizen Engagement
Dr Crispin Butteriss looks at how insights from the ‘behavioural sciences’ are being used increasingly by governments around the world to help citizens make better choices.
10 Things To Consider When Facilitating Online Discussions
Deciding when, how, how often, or indeed if, you should get involved in your online forum is an important strategic decision. Forum facilitation and management can be time-consuming and resource intensive; it needs to be considered carefully. To make these choices easier, we made a list of the top 10 things to consider when facilitating […]
Is humility a strategy for online reputation management?
Your organisation’s brand and online reputation is as precious as it is delicate. Years of careful work building your brand can be decimated in days if you fail to head a few simple lessons of online reputation management. Humility is de rigueur. It is increasingly being explored as a necessary precondition for organisational sustainability as […]
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