The safety and security of your EHQ and its data is something we take very seriously and we continue to evolve and improve the safeguards we have in place to ensure they remain best practice.
1 year ago
It is with great pleasure that we can now announce that all New Zealand EngagementHQ sites now have access to a drop-down style question with a complete list of New Zealand suburbs.
1 year ago
Helen Pallet reviews organisational learning around UK’s Sciencewise program, a public participation body appointed to promote dialogue in science policy.
1 year ago
After much debate and research, we’ve made the call to remove the ability to customise the forgotten password email and embed a best practice email instead.
1 year ago
At Bang the Table, we are lucky enough to see all of the great projects and consultation activities that are put together by our clients around the world. Recently, we have been seeing some absolutely fantastic projects using our Places tool for geo-spatial and location based consultations. In this post, we want to share with […]
1 year ago
Ever wondered what to do when you consultation is over? Well you’re not on your own. One of the most common questions we get asked about online engagement is what to do with consultations once they have concluded. Because this is such an important question to answer for good community engagement practice, we thought we’d […]
1 year ago
If you’ve ever had a member of your community challenge the validity of your engagement results, you will have first-hand experience in understanding the importance of being able to support your findings with a solid engagement methodology. This often includes being able to pinpoint and explain how your findings are representative of your community. Understanding […]
1 year ago
This e-book explores the opportunities presented with online community engagement. This business case looks first at community engagement best practices and then explores the argument for using online tools alongside face-to-face engagement to build effective community relationships.
1 year ago
IAP2 has a foundation based on three pillars. One of these pillars include a list of core values.
1 year ago
Putting a face to your community engagement goes a long way to breaking the down the inevitable barriers between your organisation and your community of interest.
1 year ago
Empowering Your Community Through Information and Building Trust To hear more details from Kathyrn D’Angelo herself about what worked well for Richmond School District 38, check out Episode 2 of Bang the Table’s latest podcast, live October 31, 2017. ______________________________________________ In 2016, Richmond School District 38 concluded a 2 year online community engagement project focusing on school […]
1 year ago
To get a clearer picture of where Americans stand when it comes to how they view, communicate, and interact with their local government, we conducted a survey of 750 American consumers.
1 year ago
At Bang the Table we pride ourselves on our service. Our goal has always been to go well beyond software and support great community engagement.
1 year ago
Shifting patterns of political participation could be amplifying inequalities that hurt democracy, finds Russell Dalton’s ‘The Participation Gap’.
1 year ago
We have extended EHQ Places to support the display of map layers via ESRI shapefile, which means you can now include layers in your consultation maps either through WMS layers, or the newly implemented shapefile upload.
1 year ago
The most important part of any good community engagement activity is demonstrating to your community that their views have been heard and showing them the details of the feedback you received. Closing the loop is essential to building trust and it also builds transparency in your decision making. Good closing the loop practices make your […]
1 year ago
Public submission processes are common engagement method used to capture detailed written feedback from stakeholders. These processes are often guided by legislative requirements or simply by internal policy from with an organisation. Capturing submissions is often done via survey, email or even post and there is usually mandatory information about the participant, which must be […]
1 year ago
Using EngagementHQ to conduct internal staff consultations is a great way to expand your engagement activities and can help to build a culture of engagement in your organisation. In this post, we look at how to setup a internal Staff Portal using EHQ, the types of content and consultations you might conduct via a staff […]
1 year ago
I’ve quite literally never heard anyone defend the ‘open mic’ as an engagement process and yet in 2017 it persists as the major form of engagement in many cities across the USA. We want to show core decision makers what can be achieved with more serious and sustained approaches to community engagement, but it’s not […]
1 year ago
Young people in Oldham, Greater Manchester, identify top areas of focus for mental health care in the pilot, MH:2K project.
1 year ago
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