Bang the Table’s Engagement Manager, Casey Earp, and City of Golden, Colorado’s Senior Planner, Amber Wesner share some tricks of the trade for expanding your audience. Last week I presented at the Colorado APA conference alongside Amber Wesner, Senior Planner for the City of Golden, Colorado, about how the city is using online engagement tools […]
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When building your engagement site, selecting the right tool is important to your end results. Get ideas on how to choose a variety of feedback tools that cater to different audiences, how to make participation fun and easy, and when face-to-face can support your digital engagement.
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The City of Burlington started this conversation with its community when they launched the site in March 2018 to develop the conversation and the relationships online. Since its inception, they have updated the site with more tools and information about festivals and events.
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Digital engagement can help achieve better community outcomes and improve the overall public experience. Below are ten reasons to consider transitioning your community engagement practice to an online platform and the value of bringing resident feedback into local government decision making.
2 years ago
While seeking community input on a project that is interactive in the photography competition, Wingecarribee Council are also facilitating the community‘s ability to give feedback on their aspirations for their community’s future.
2 years ago
Local governments are beginning to adopt the mentality that community engagement is a process that happens with the people. Surveys happen to people. Beyond the survey, you will find richer feedback, more meaningful conversations, and more trust between your residents and your organization.
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Youth-initiated participation shows improvements to community life and highlights children and young people’s agency as key to social transformation.
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Each year, #CityHallSelfie day drives thousands of residents to city hall buildings across the country. We have teamed up with ELGL and put together a list of tips to help you take participation to the next level.
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As demand for air travel to and from Melbourne continues to rapidly grow, Melbourne Airport is planning which runway to develop. Find out how they included the community in the process.
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Nova Scotia Health Authority’s online community engagement journey reveals vital insights into public involvement in the health sector.
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Good community engagement involves both online and in-person methods. Great community engagement, however, blends the two methods together–giving the community a seamless continuum of ways to participate.
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EngagementHQ provides a suite of resources for looking after engaging citizens’ assemblies. Here 9 reasons EngagementHQ is perfect for Citizens’ Assemblies.
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Online community engagement has revealed a whole new world of opportunities and tools for better, wider, and deeper conversations with communities large and small. See how smaller cities are making a big impact with community engagement.
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“Against the conference backdrop of collaboration and learning, it was simply refreshing to partake in the discussion and be welcomed to the table.” Caity Belta discusses her introduction to the ELGL community as she meets leaders in government across the country.
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Stockholm Environment Institute research finds mobilised citizens key to expanding public participation to achieve sustainability goals.
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Fostering equitable spaces for everyone in your community is a lifetime of work, so look at it as a journey that you, and your community take together. Let’s get started!
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What if face-to-face patient and public involvement was no longer an option? How does digital first engagement relate to the most regulated field of public participation in the world?
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Learn how our new Site Review and Benchmarking service can help you and your team achieve better online engagement results by taking a deeper look at your digital engagement activities.
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Learn more about EngagementIQ, Bang the Table’s new range of strategic support and short consulting services.
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The ELGL Engagement Corner is a new, members only engagement site, powered by the EngagementHQ platform. As our valued partner, ELGL shares a common mission with Bang the Table, to foster meaningful connections that benefit local government leaders and the people they serve.
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