Face-to-Face Community Engagement is Dead!
Dan Popping, Australian Practice Lead, Bang the Table reflects on The Ridiculous People’s Debate and discovers underlying links to key engagement principles.
Dan Popping
2 days ago
Dan Popping, Australian Practice Lead, Bang the Table reflects on The Ridiculous People’s Debate and discovers underlying links to key engagement principles.
2 days ago
Cycling paths and walkways impact everyone in the community, regardless of whether they actually use the street space. In this playbook, we take a step-by-step deep dive into the tools and capabilities of EngagementHQ and how it can facilitate an effective street space public consultation.
3 days ago
When truly investigating the value of online engagement, this cost-benefit relationship goes far beyond numbers. While in-person consultation will always be present, there are limitations that make the inclusion of digital engagement beneficial to both your projects and stakeholders.
6 days ago
Efficiency, Risk, Cost and Trust Online community engagement brings more people to the table. Moreover — it provides substantial benefits for any organization with stakeholders through major efficiencies and risk mitigation. An investment of resources into digital-first community engagement provides endless benefits. This guide will provide examples, cite academic studies, and outline the potentially massive […]
1 week ago
Rates consultations are often a challenging and complex process. Katie Toohey, Bang the Table’s Australian-based Engagement Manager, spoke with local government clients across Australia and New Zealand to uncover their top tips on how to navigate engagement for a smoother consultation.
3 weeks ago
Over the past decade, Tweed Shire Council has increasingly used EngagementHQ to help the organisation partner with the community and build trust.
4 weeks ago
Stéphanie Beauregard, Practice Lead at Bang the Table, walks through five steps to ensure your data is useful, simple-to-understand, and can be communicated effectively at the end of a consultation.
1 month ago
Jeremy Shackett, Engagement Manager at Bang the Table, demonstrates how to quickly increase online participation from a community with small, easy-to-implement tweaks.
1 month ago
Our product teams have had a busy quarter as they’ve focused on giving you more flexibility and customization options for your site while reducing barriers to participation for your community. We’ve summarized these new features here and how you can put these updates to work for you in your engagement programs.
1 month ago
Rapid online deliberation trial unpacks citizen priorities for COVID-19 policy, demonstrated through Traverse’s digital engagement efforts.
1 month ago
Regardless of where an individual, community, or department stands in the national dialogue related to police, there is much to be learned from some of the online community engagement efforts, initiated by police agencies, to date. Amanda Nagl highlights lessons from some effective examples of deliberation regarding community safety and reform.
1 month ago
Kansas City, Missouri creates a diverse and inclusive engagement program designed to build from one phase to another based on community input submitted through the site’s interactive engagement tools.
1 month ago
To help you extract more meaning from written responses in less time, we’ve released three powerful upgrades to Text Analysis reporting this year. While each new feature is powerful and exciting on its own, using them in combination with one another creates an interactive opportunity to explore written comments at scale. Whether you’ve chosen a […]
2 months ago
Willoughby Regional Council shares their insight from a decade of digital engagement. They have reached thousands of residents while improving confidence and trust in the community.
2 months ago
With over 10,000 posts – and counting – using EngagementHQ, Study Group’s recent adoption of digital engagement transforms online learning for international students.
2 months ago
Sally Hussey provides an essential public engagement resource compiling 60 international public participation models dating back fifty years to Arnstein’s influential ‘Ladder of Citizen Participation’. Last year, Sherry R. Arnstein’s “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” celebrated its 50th anniversary. Originally published in the Journal of American Planning Association (JAPA) and one of its most cited […]
2 months ago
Helping visitors to your site find projects they are interested in is a critical step to increasing engagement and one that fuels your community-building efforts. For that launch projects continuously, presenting new projects and keeping them visible on the homepage can be cumbersome, especially when adding projects to the homepage is manual and involves multiple […]
2 months ago
Nicole Vaughan list 6 different ways to use SMS in your community engagement process to bring reach more stakeholders.
2 months ago
Amanda Nagl and the CMAP team discuss the mechanics of how to build and manage projects, as well as, how they correlate engagement directly to their information site.
2 months ago
Nicole Vaughan, Bang the Table’s Melbourne-based Engagement Manager, steps through how SMS can power your next engagement conversation.
3 months ago
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