Community Engagement Steps Up Participation in Climate Action
With the unpredictable acceleration of climate chaos, increased community engagement kick-starts urgently needed steps to climate action.
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With the unpredictable acceleration of climate chaos, increased community engagement kick-starts urgently needed steps to climate action.
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The ability to display banners on all project pages is here! These banners are an easy and powerful way to display site or project creative across your EngagementHQ site. Now, you can choose which banners to display across your projects, regardless of your theme.
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There is now a better way for you to share your draft projects with others. Whether you need feedback, approval, or just another pair of eyes for any reason, this new feature allows you to easily and securely share projects with others. The people you’re sharing with don’t even need a login or special information – just the link you send their way.
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How do we ensure we are not just using participants as machines to provide feedback, but rather become partners in our decisions? It is important to consider crossing the border of engagement and venturing into the bond of trust.
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Bang the Table provides evidence for the Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies regarding elected representative’s need to embrace digital technologies to support democratic engagement and ensure the efficacy of the democratic process.
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We are excited to announce the release of a completely new Survey tool within the EngagementHQ suite. This release includes a totally redesigned and intuitive look from both the administrators and participants’ perspective, as well as some efficiency goodies guaranteed to save you time. Learn about our new Survey tool and how to incorporate skip and conditional logic for better community surveys.
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Parks and recreation facilities are at the heart of community wellbeing. It’s universally acknowledged that successful parks and recreation projects demonstrate a living commitment to the communities that they serve. It therefore follows that these beloved habitats of community life have a duty to place the community at their core.
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The global decline of trust in government produces an array of complex questions and challenges for contemporary democracies. Decision-makers are increasingly acknowledging the need to listen to and understand the communities they serve.
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This brief essay is a manifesto for the coming years, it points to the directions and priorities we will have in the development of our software and the services and partnerships that we use to support our clients to achieve the results they need.
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Project Finder allows organizations to showcase projects, with dynamic filtering, in more locations. Highlight key engagement projects on your corporate or council website in a visual and interesting way.
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Client: City of Launceston (Tasmania, Australia) Project: Tomorrow Together, A well-designed City Project Details: The City of Launceston recently launched a new engagement campaign titled ‘Tomorrow Together’ and is taking a theme-based approach to engage with their community. Rather than asking for feedback on each individual project, they are currently asking people up-front “what is […]
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Granicus, the leading provider of cloud-based software solutions and digital engagement services for the public sector, announced a partnership with Bang the Table, the company behind the award-winning community engagement solution, EngagementHQ. The companies have collaborated on an integrated set of solutions that extend a variety of new capabilities and features to Granicus’ local government […]
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From what to how to why, an essential guide to understanding fundamentals of community engagement Community engagement can be a complicated concept. Too often, attempts at singular definitions turn the concept of engaging people to have their say on decisions that impact their lives into abstract notions that sideline it’s essence. Emphasis on the lived […]
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Let’s Chat Moncton is enabling better engagement with a bilingual community across a variety of local issues. With quality information flowing to and from the community and decision-makers, this dedicated online engagement space is bringing clarity to vital conversations in New Brunswick’s largest city.
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Rotorua Lake Council’s dedicated engagement space underlines the Council’s commitment to nurturing the culture of engagement that continues to sustain vital online and offline conversations.
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Sally Hussey In an era of fake news, social media and public discussions among the like-minded, can deliberation renew democracy? Democracy is, seemingly, under threat the world over. Diversely labelled “democratic recession” and the “death of democracy” in the extreme, this has also given rise to “post democracy,” where parameters determining people’s living conditions are […]
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At Bang the Table, we use our mission to focus our efforts, empower our teams, and help our client’s build engaged communities that flourish.
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We are looking forward to a lively discussion at the International Association of Public Participation’s (IAP2) USA conference this year exploring decision-making processes for when to go online and when to go in-person, or both, as far as community engagement is concerned. We will discuss the difference if we were to approach design from a “digital first” perspective. Join the session Online Engagement – Always? First? After? When? at IAP2 USA Conference on Friday, September 6 at 1 pm.
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We are extremely excited to be announcing a global partnership between Bang the Table and Balancing Act. Get the details of this new partnership and see how the Balancing Act software will integrate with EngagementHQ for best-in-class community participation and budget engagement software.
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EngagementHQ now allows clients to use the site to build petitions within their community engagement. Petition page shows the number of responses and allows community members to simply choose to participate by filling out a form.
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