An effective community engagement plan does many crucial things for your agency, including ensuring that your constituents are informed before decisions are made, projects are resilient against derailment or shut down, and plans are guarded against staff and elected official turnover.
5 days ago
The City of Logan has underlined a vital role for the community’s youth with their landmark child and youth engagement framework that sets out pathways to bring young perspectives to the conversation to inform policy and planning.
2 weeks ago
As a best-practice method, closing the loop makes your community engagement activities more robust and genuine and can help to drive interaction and engagement with your projects. Learn how to use the EngagementHQ News Feed to close the loop with your participants.
3 weeks ago
Community members of Longmont noted the increase in recreational vehicles and some were beginning to consider their presence in neighborhoods a nuisance. The city drafted a policy to control it and expected it to be adopted with no issues. Instead, people poured out to oppose the ordinance. Learn how the City created a strategic community involvement approach for decision making.
3 weeks ago
Forty engagement practitioners explore how we build, design and manage online engagement projects and formulate an expert tip sheet for designing digital engagement to build trust and connection.
3 weeks ago
We took a deep dive into trust in government to see how communities view, communicate, and interact with their local governments. We surveyed 750 people from across the country and across demographics.
4 weeks ago
We’re excited to officially welcome Konveio as our newest Bang the Table partner! This partnership with Konveio introduces a new way to engage around official documents such as city plans, reports and PDF communications. See how Konveio integrates with EngagementHQ.
4 weeks ago
With the unpredictable acceleration of climate chaos, increased community engagement kick-starts urgently needed steps to climate action.
4 weeks ago
The ability to display banners on all project pages is here! These banners are an easy and powerful way to display site or project creative across your EngagementHQ site. Now, you can choose which banners to display across your projects, regardless of your theme.
1 month ago
There is now a better way for you to share your draft projects with others. Whether you need feedback, approval, or just another pair of eyes for any reason, this new feature allows you to easily and securely share projects with others. The people you’re sharing with don’t even need a login or special information – just the link you send their way.
1 month ago
How do we ensure we are not just using participants as machines to provide feedback, but rather become partners in our decisions? It is important to consider crossing the border of engagement and venturing into the bond of trust.
1 month ago
Bang the Table provides evidence for the Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies regarding elected representative’s need to embrace digital technologies to support democratic engagement and ensure the efficacy of the democratic process.
1 month ago
We are excited to announce the release of a completely new Survey tool within the EngagementHQ suite. This release includes a totally redesigned and intuitive look from both the administrators and participants’ perspective, as well as some efficiency goodies guaranteed to save you time. Learn about our new Survey tool and how to incorporate skip and conditional logic for better community surveys.
1 month ago
Parks and recreation facilities are at the heart of community wellbeing. It’s universally acknowledged that successful parks and recreation projects demonstrate a living commitment to the communities that they serve. It therefore follows that these beloved habitats of community life have a duty to place the community at their core.
2 months ago
The global decline of trust in government produces an array of complex questions and challenges for contemporary democracies. Decision-makers are increasingly acknowledging the need to listen to and understand the communities they serve.
2 months ago
An essential resource for twenty-first-century engagement practitioners that shows how to kick start your journey in digital engagement using Bang the Table’s community engagement platform, EngagementHQ.
2 months ago
This brief essay is a manifesto for the coming years, it points to the directions and priorities we will have in the development of our software and the services and partnerships that we use to support our clients to achieve the results they need.
2 months ago
Project Finder allows organizations to showcase projects, with dynamic filtering, in more locations. Highlight key engagement projects on your corporate or council website in a visual and interesting way.
2 months ago
Client: City of Launceston (Tasmania, Australia) Project: Tomorrow Together, A well-designed City Project Details: The City of Launceston recently launched a new engagement campaign titled ‘Tomorrow Together’ and is taking a theme-based approach to engage with their community. Rather than asking for feedback on each individual project, they are currently asking people up-front “what is […]
3 months ago
Granicus, the leading provider of cloud-based software solutions and digital engagement services for the public sector, announced a partnership with Bang the Table, the company behind the award-winning community engagement solution, EngagementHQ. The companies have collaborated on an integrated set of solutions that extend a variety of new capabilities and features to Granicus’ local government […]
3 months ago
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