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    étude de cas de la Ville de Gatineau

    Une consultation en ligne qui attire un large public : étude de cas de la Ville de Gatineau

    Je dis toujours à nos clients qu’en matière de participation publique en ligne, la première année est la plus difficile. Faire connaître la plateforme et susciter l’intérêt des citoyens prend du temps. La meilleure façon d’y arriver est d’augmenter progressivement la base de participants en multipliant les initiatives d’implication de la communauté sur de nombreux […]

    Bang the Table

    Bang the Table

    3 years ago

    City of Aspen Case Study

    Case Study: City of Aspen Using EngagementHQ to Build Community

    The City of Aspen (population around 6,000) started engaging their community online using Bang the Table in June 2016. Mitzi Rapkin, Community Relations Director explained that their aim is to connect directly with more of the community: “To us it is significant even if we reach just one additional person by including online engagement….. We […]

    Bang the Table

    Bang the Table

    3 years ago

    Auckland Transport

    Auckland Transport is achieving high engagement rates. Here’s why…

    The Auckland Transport team has impressed us with very high engagement rates in their past projects, making this a perfect site to showcase some effective ways to design your EngagementHQ site. Read on to discover what tools have been used for this project and how they helped the Transport team achieve their project goals.

    Joe Kresling

    Joe Kresling

    4 years ago

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    How to co-design what a library should and could be?

    Earlier this year Christchurch City Council launched the Your Library, Your Voice campaign to get the community involved in helping design its new central library following the 2011 earthquakes. Between February and June 2011 a series of earthquakes and aftershocks devastated much of Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city. In all, 185 people were killed […]

    5 years ago

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    engaging citizens in budget process

    How to grow your online community panel? Introducing the ‘Willoughby’ method!

    There is no questioning that online community panels are fast becoming a key part of local government community engagement strategies. Online community panels offer many benefits in terms of engagement marketing efficiency and effectiveness, and from a research perspective, they can offer some rigor around the demographic diversity of those being engaged. The question that […]

    5 years ago

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    community panel

    Turbocharge your community panel’s growth by embracing a little controversy

    Your community panel’s growth can be turbocharged using a variety of strategies. One sure fire method is to embrace a little controversy and engage the community about highly emotional issues. The single most often asked question I hear in relation to online community engagement is, “how do we get more people to get involved in the […]

    5 years ago

    New Zealand’s long-term local government planning

    Western Bay of Plenty District Council and Christchurch City Council are leading the way in contemporary community engagement practice in New Zealand by engaging citizens online about their long-term plans. Planning for the long-term Under the New Zealand Local Government Act 2002, local authorities are required to produce a long-term plan, covering a ten-year period. […]

    5 years ago

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    Gathering rich personal stories online

    Gathering rich personal stories online to inform the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

    The Australian Government’s consultation about the need for a national disability insurance scheme provided the perfect context to demonstrate how gathering rich personal stories online can drive profound public policy change. In 2013 the Australian government introduced legislation to create a national disability scheme. The new system was the single biggest change in Australia’s disability […]

    5 years ago

    Online Citizens Jury

    Online Citizens Jury: Energy Generation in NSW

    Early this year Bang the Table joined forces with the NewDemocracy Foundation and the NSW Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to support the creation of an online citizens jury portal as part of a unique experiment in participatory democracy. Last week saw the publication of the findings of the PAC report on “The Economics of Energy […]

    7 years ago

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