Community Engagement Blog

2018 in Review – Bang the Table

At times, 2018 felt like an apt year for reflection on digital engagement. It would be impossible to overstate the importance of community engagement in the current global climate. And yet, its increasing focus has driven not only deeper engagement with communities and residents but buoyed the dramatic shift toward digital-first engagement.

EHQ Year in Review 2018

Before we launch into what we expect to be a very exciting 2019 for EHQ, it’s worth taking a moment to look back at the year gone by and review some of the updates you might have missed.

Survey Analysis

Explore your survey insights with survey analysis, featuring filter, compare and crosstab (cross-tab) functionality.

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Humanising urban environments: why urban renewal projects need local communities’ interventions

Without question, local communities play a pivotal role in urban renewal. Moreover, there is a discernible impact arising from a community-engagement approach to contemporary city-building, where support for social capital is prioritised.

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Speak up Fayetteville: Fayetteville’s new public engagement portal has plenty to talk about

Speak Up Fayetteville, the dedicated public engagement site for the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas, keeps the community coming back for more as a one-stop hub for a growing array of projects and involvement opportunities. Linda Deberry, Communications Program Manager, reveals that a centralized engagement tool, a strategic overlapping of projects timed to cross-pollinate participation, and […]

Inclusive Strategies for Community Engagement – Designing a Better Public Meeting

I spent the last week traveling through Eastern Canada with Bang the Table’s North American Engagement team and our Co-Founder and Impact Lead, Crispin Butteriss, PhD. We got together to share ideas, plan for the future, and hear a series of presentations on Crispin’s emerging ideas and concepts regarding the practice of digital deliberation and digital first […]

What’s the secret to Let’s Talk Parker’s exceptional response from the community?

“EngagementHQ has been a hit in our community, helping to turn innovative ideas into reality!” – Dannette Robberson, Town of Parker, Colorado In the first six months following the launch of Let’s Talk Parker, the town’s new online engagement portal, local residents have weighed in on 11 projects, 1082 surveys, and 320 quick polls. The […]

Why Canada’s Cannabis Act is a green-field opportunity for online engagement

With Canada’s recent legalisation, the mainstreaming of recreational marijuana has municipalities cultivating online engagement as residents weigh in on whether to allow private cannabis retail stores.

Working with NextDoor

With the recent arrival of NextDoor in Australia, it’s a matter of time before local governments are going to be approached to pay to use the network as a platform for community engagement.  We have quite a lot of experience from clients who use NextDoor in the USA and we thought it might be useful […]

How to manage panic engagement?

Learn about some simple tips for managing last minute panic engagement to ensure you still get the engagement outcomes you require.

2018 Digital Cities Survey Winners; 3 Bang the Table Clients Recognized

We are very proud to announce that three of our US clients have been recognized by The Center for Digital Government (CDG) as winners of the 2018 Digital Cities Survey. Congratulations to Bellevue (WA), Boulder (CO) and Fort Collins (CO) who were all winners. All three of these cities have chosen Bang the Table’s EngagementHQ […]

Understanding Digital-First Community Engagement

Find out about some of the key challenges facing practitioners as the world transitions to digital-first community engagement and learn strategies to help you find your way through the maze.

4 myths about data security in online community engagement

Urban myths exist in every aspect of our lives, even our professional one. Every industry has popular myths and I’ve heard my share of data privacy and data security myths in the online community engagement space – from using a simple website to a one-time installation of security software as ways to address security and […]

Running on empty: refuelling public participation in transportation planning

Low performing public participation functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy in large transportation projects, find Ted Grossardt and Keiron Bailey.

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Online engagement helps envision crowdsourced smart cities

In the emerging trend of community-based smart initiatives, Tooran Alizadeh envisions crowdsourced smart cities.

Four key issues to consider for effective online dialogue

Facilitating effective online dialogue is a refined skill that requires careful consideration of process, issue framing, participant behaviour and a deep understanding of dialogue principles. In this article we look at 4 key issues to consider before hosting an online dialogue. 4 key issues to consider for online dialogue 1. Framing and Contextualising This first […]

How Single Sign-On can enhance your online engagement activities

Use single sign-on to help you drive participation to your online engagement portal and grow your database while creating a more streamlined service offer for your community.