Moonee Valley City Council engaged with its community to help plan the future of Windy Hill, an iconic sport and recreation reserve in Essendon, Victoria. This project is a terrific example of a council undertaking early engagement with their community to inform future planning and development.
9 months ago
Engagement Specialist, Billy Trakas, shares strategies to increase your agency’s public participation by implementing inclusive engagement strategies.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
Launched in February this year, Safer Care Victoria’s new healthcare framework is trailblazing positive change in healthcare across Victoria.
10 months ago
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.
10 months ago
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.
10 months ago
The best public health social media campaigns continually adapt to rolling, and unexpected, trends in social media usage.
10 months ago
Housing is a human right. But solutions to current affordable housing scarcity might be better served by an online community engagement approach.
10 months ago
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.
10 months ago
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.
11 months ago
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.
11 months ago
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.
11 months ago
Experience an upgraded Places tool now available for beta testing.
11 months ago
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 […]
12 months ago
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.
12 months ago
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 […]
1 year ago
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 […]
1 year ago
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. […]
1 year ago
In this blog, we look at what is Single Sign On, how does it look & why use SSO in EHQ. SSO is an add-on to EngagementHQ and is not included in any standard license.
1 year ago
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