This category contains old posts by Bang the Table staff about various aspects of public engagement practice. It is for shorter pieces that do not fit into the Opinion section.
Ideation taps into community creativity to identify problems, locate solutions and build relationships to enrich conversations. In their recent webinar, Nathan Connors and Johannes Kresling reveal how ideation can transform engagement. They illustrate how ideation can nurture valuable community relationships for ongoing and future projects, keep people invested in engagement, bring clarity to challenges, and […]
Data privacy and security are hot button news issues right now. You only have to look at recent reporting around Facebook’s fast and loose attitude towards people’s private data and the European Union’s response to data privacy issues to see these issues are finally receiving the attention they deserve.
How do we monitor online content without limiting free speech? How can we circumscribe non-sociable aspects of participation when we want to dig deeper into ‘hot’ issues’?
“If you want to create a deliberative space, you can’t simply launch a website and hope for the best,” says Dr Crispin Butteriss in his recent webinar on Digital Deliberation. Establishing online deliberation also requires overcoming the challenges of process design.
Most planners understand the need to engage the community and the benefits of doing so but many have limited their adoption of online tools to one off forays into the space when they have a major project. Here are 5 examples of planners using online engagement to better effect to build community understanding and participation. […]
In a bid to simplify digital public engagement many government organizations are turning to online polls as a quick and dirty solution. But is this a turn for the worse? Are we dumbing down vital and complex public policy conversations? Do quick polls actually help us make good, sustainable, decisions? There are a number of […]
Bang the Table has received ISO accreditation following multiple independent audits of our information security management system (ISMS).
Here are some fantastic examples of entertaining community engagement videos that promote and celebrate the work of government and encourage increased participation.
Online engagement platforms can help Alberta municipalities meet the new requirements of the Municipal Government Act. The clock is ticking on Alberta’s new regulations for local community engagement. The revised Municipal Government Act calls for local councils to create and adopt a comprehensive public participation policy that captures why, when, and how councils will involve […]
There’s more to evaluation than finding out if a project has been a success or failure. It can also say something about evaluation design.
Congratulations to our clients at the City of Oshawa! They have been awarded a gold Hermes creative award for their EngagementHQ online community engagement website. It’s fantastic to see Oshawa honored in this way because they’ve worked hard to bring online engagement to their site and have produced a very engaging and attractive site […]
At the end of October, a decision was made to press ahead with a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Yet despite public consultation we could be another ten years away from breaking ground.
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