Inclusive Engagement – Why Knowing Your Audience Matters
Engagement Specialist, Billy Trakas, shares strategies to increase your agency’s public participation by implementing inclusive engagement strategies.
Billy Trakas
2 days ago
Walk, Roll, Ride: Byron Shire Council’s pathway to better mobility infrastructure
Byron Shire Council set out to learn how local footpaths, cycleways, and related facilities were working for the community, what was missing, and what needed to go into planning for upgrading this infrastructure to better serve the region.
Yamini Zerfas
1 week ago
Staff Pick: Bayswater Participatory Budgeting
Looking for new and participatory ways to get people involved in the Business Plan and Budget process, Engage Bayswater invited their community to help inform the City’s annual operating budget for 2019/20. See how this well thought out process can – and should – be replicated by other Councils.
Dan Popping
1 week ago
“Nothing about us without us”: New framework elevates consumers’ voice in healthcare
Launched in February this year, Safer Care Victoria’s new healthcare framework is trailblazing positive change in healthcare across Victoria.
Sally Hussey
2 weeks ago
How Online Engagement Can Support Meaningful Policy Change
The cities of Boulder, Colorado, and Austin, Texas utilized online community engagement to support policy-based community initiatives. We discuss how effective engagement can bring about sweeping policy change, particularly at the local government level.
Meghan Ruble
3 weeks ago
10 Benefits of Digital First Health Engagement
Online engagement in healthcare can achieve better patient outcomes and improve the patient experience. Here are ten benefits of a digital first health engagement strategy.
Bang the Table
3 weeks ago
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
Jonathan Bradley
3 weeks ago
Online engagement rises to the global affordable housing challenge
Housing is a human right. But solutions to current affordable housing scarcity might be better served by an online community engagement approach.
Sally Hussey
1 month ago
50 Ways to Promote Your Engagement Project
Great consultations require vision, planning, courage, knowledge, teamwork and execution. Getting people to your online engagement project might seem daunting at first, but with a few creative ideas and a trusted strategy, you can bring thousands of eyes to your project, giving your community an easy way to participate, on their time. Here are 50 ways to help promote your engagement project.
Bang the Table
1 month ago
The Gunning Principles and Digital First – Staying out of Court in an Online World
Aligned with the Gunning Principles, digital first public participation can bring about fair – and lawful – public consultation. Learn how a digital first approach to consultation will help public bodies stick to the letter of the law and adhere to the legal principles like Gunning One, Two, Three and Four.
Jonathan Bradley
2 months ago
‘Let’s Talk Kamloops’ takes the conversation to the community in its online engagement
The City of Kamloops online engagement hub, Let’s Talk Kamloops, has seen over 21,000 visits and 6800 engaged, informed, and aware participants since its launch in mid-2018.
Yamini Zerfas
2 months ago
Thinking beyond the survey: Cambridgeshire’s transport planning is mapping its future
Consult Cambs, the online consultation hub for the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP), is thinking beyond the survey to add a whole new dimension to how community and stakeholders can set out ideas for their shared future.
Yamini Zerfas
2 months ago
How the City of Casey built historic advocacy campaign success
In his recent webinar with Bang the Table, Sid Wynen reveals how the City of Casey crafted and delivered the Commit to Casey advocacy campaign, securing $1 billion and $3.6 billion in direct and indirect funding prior to the Victorian election. Drawing on his extensive experience in community engagement, advocacy, and public policy – and […]
Yamini Zerfas
3 months ago
Activating aspirations: Local Councils’ advocacy drives social transformation
While community-led advocacy is central to the push for social change, council-led advocacy is key ‘to driving change that not only meets community priorities. But it can enable a deeper engagement with communities in the ongoing transformation of neighbourhoods and cities.
Sally Hussey
3 months ago
Moving Beyond the Survey
Digital engagement offers a convenient way to listen to, and gain feedback from, public and community stakeholders. For meaningful connection to happen, we need to create a safe online place for public debate. A place to exchange ideas A place to learn from other people A place to read and watch videos about important matters […]
Jonathan Bradley
3 months ago
Between the spectra: Arnstein’s Ladder plugs the gap of IAP2 spectrum
Adopting Arnstein’s 1969 Ladder of Citizen Participation alongside the current widespread use of the IAP2 spectrum might help governments engage more meaningfully with their citizens, recent research suggests. In Australia – indeed globally – governments increasingly recognise the need to shift toward more inclusive decision making processes. But there remains, what scholars Aaron Davis and […]
Sally Hussey
3 months ago
How taking the conversation online transformed engagement in the City of Kingston, Ontario
Get Involved Kingston, the City of Kingston’s new engagement hub, has seen 6000 registered participants tuning in to have their say on local projects and priorities. Complementing the City’s offline participation opportunities, Get Involved Kingston’s online engagement has further opened up new dimensions in how the community and City staff talk about projects and ideas. […]
Yamini Zerfas
3 months ago
2018 in Review – Bang the Table
At times, 2018 felt like an apt year for reflection on digital engagement. It would be impossible to overstate the importance of community engagement in the current global climate. And yet, its increasing focus has driven not only deeper engagement with communities and residents but buoyed the dramatic shift toward digital-first engagement.
Matthew Crozier
4 months ago
EHQ Year in Review 2018
Before we launch into what we expect to be a very exciting 2019 for EHQ, it’s worth taking a moment to look back at the year gone by and review some of the updates you might have missed.
Nathan Connors
4 months ago
Humanising urban environments: why urban renewal projects need local communities’ interventions
Without question, local communities play a pivotal role in urban renewal. Moreover, there is a discernible impact arising from a community-engagement approach to contemporary city-building, where support for social capital is prioritised.
Sally Hussey
5 months ago
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