Gladstone Regional Council are undertaking a project to gain community input about the reshaping and reimagining of the area’s Central Business District. Using EHQ’s engagement tools in very innovative ways, this is a project worth looking at. Read on as we take a closer look…
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This year we shared 20 of our best client sites that either excelled with great design, user functionality or excellent online engagement strategy. With 50-60 projects released each week, finding our favourites was no easy feat! With 2015 drawing to a close, we take a look back at some of these projects and look forward to sharing […]
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Lesson 6 in our top ten tips for best-practice online citizen engagement series. Nobody likes to be misled and nothing leads to community cynicism more than engagement that pretends to consult, collaborate or empower when in reality the decision has already been made.
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Lesson 5 in our top ten tips for best-practice online citizen engagement series. Citizen engagement can be a fraught activity with participants often left dissatisfied if they feel their contributions are not duly considered in the decision-making process. Though it can be difficult to provide feedback to participants in a face-to-face process, online engagement provides no such barriers and actually presents a fantastic opportunity to engage further with the community.
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This well-designed project by the Department of Environment and Planning in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is a fantastic example of how to use EngagementHQ to close the loop on a community consultation.
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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 […]
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Connecting, sharing and collaborating is important to the Bang the Table community, so we host events often to keep you in the loop as well as provide an opportunity to mingle, learn and contribute.
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The Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s most recent online consultation is getting the community involved at an early stage of the development of a 30-year policy. The project site itself is also well designed, so let’s take a look at what works.
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Lesson 4 in our top ten lessons for online citizen engagement series. Really, there’s no need to be coy about engaging the community. We quite often see lots of effort put into creating a really engaging site and then no effort in letting people know it is there.
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When the opportunity arose to speak with Joanne Cannon, Organisation Development Project Officer, at East Gippsland Shire Council about their new project site using EngagementHQ , we jumped at the chance!
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Lesson 3 in our top ten lessons for online citizen engagement series. Most online engagement projects are made up of multiple phases, and typically, only a few of these will involve consulting or actively listening to the community. Unfortunately, the timing of community members becoming interested in a project and of the timing of consultative phases often don’t coincide.
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Back in March, our previous City of Port Phillip staff pick on the Acland Street Upgrades took place at an earlier stage of the consultation process. Now, we take another look at the project and walk you through some of the best practice features.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Lesson 2 in our ten top tips for best-practice online citizen engagement series. There are tangible benefits in broadening your audience and reaching out beyond the usual suspects, outside of those people that are passionately engaged and understanding what those in the middle without a defined position think.
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Rockdale City Council in New South Wales, Australia has designed a beautiful and simple playground upgrade consultation site. This project features a single EngagmentHQ tool – a survey – to gather community feedback along with a number of customisable widgets, which provide site visitors with relevant and useful information.
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Lesson 1 in our top ten lessons for online citizen engagement series. Using a platform like EngagementHQ to build a community around your online public engagement processes is important because it allows you to build and keep your audience rather than starting afresh each time. It also means the community become accustomed to what is expected.
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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.
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While EngagementHQ’s tool suite includes a range of community ideation, feedback and discussion options, surveys are still the default go-to tool for online engagement. With this in mind, our development team are constantly looking for the best ways to enhance the utility of the EngagementHQ survey and form builder.
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