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.
5 years ago
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 […]
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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 […]
5 years ago
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 […]
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
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.
5 years ago
The Auckland Transport team has impressed us with very high engagement rates in their past projects, making this a perfect site to showcase some effective ways to design your EngagementHQ site. Read on to discover what tools have been used for this project and how they helped the Transport team achieve their project goals.
5 years ago
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5 years ago
When clients are embarking on a new consultation where they want to encourage the community to discuss, debate and evolve ideas, and online discussion forums are the tool of choice. Generally, the role of the organisation is to provide a safe space for discussion and observe the community in action.
5 years ago
Before you can even start talking about the detail of your digital engagement strategy, you will need to address one core question with your senior management: Why should our organisation be even thinking about engaging the community online? It’s easy to get ahead of yourself when you are already a believer in the merits and […]
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