The Vision Town of Victoria Park (with a population of almost 40,000) started using EngagementHQ to engage their community in 2015 for their Evolve project, as part of their Your Thoughts site. The Evolve project was created to understand the community’s future needs and desires for the Town, and to develop a Strategic Community Plan […]
3 years ago
In 2016, Christchurch Borough Council was awarded £50,000 from the UK Government’s ‘Coastal Community Fund’, a UK-wide program designed to support the economic development of coastal communities by promoting sustainable economic growth and jobs. The Council is looking to use the funds for improving the open space of Highcliffe Beach near Christchurch in Dorset. Gary […]
3 years ago
A brief overview of how the City of Penticton built community engagement around the question “What Could Make Our Parks and Recreation Facilities and Programs Better in the Future?”
3 years ago
Online community engagement is generally associated with crowdsourcing community ideas, debating policy issues or taking surveys or polls to understand the depth of community views. Some cities go further and use online tools to educate and mobilize the community to help map and quantify an issue as the first part of addressing it. An example […]
3 years ago
Committee Member of the Township of Hopewell NJ (population around 16,000), Vanessa Sandom recognizes the importance of connecting with the community: “New Jersey municipalities often struggle engaging their citizens. More, outside of public meetings, governments have few ways to hear resident feedback….. Hopewell Township hopes to create a new citizen-action forum, bridging the gap between […]
3 years ago
Rural Municipality of St. Clements Case Study A brief overview of how St. Clements kickstarted their community engagement around the “Let’s Talk Trash” project. EngagementHQ is used by organizations ranging in size from national governments and capital cities through to small regional communities. The Rural Municipality of St Clements in Manitoba Canada has a population […]
3 years ago
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 […]
3 years ago
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 […]
3 years ago
The Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s most recent online consultation is getting the community involved at an early stage of the development of a 30-year policy. The project site itself is also well designed, so let’s take a look at what works.
4 years ago
Back in March, our previous City of Port Phillip staff pick on the Acland Street Upgrades took place at an earlier stage of the consultation process. Now, we take another look at the project and walk you through some of the best practice features.
4 years ago
Rockdale City Council in New South Wales, Australia has designed a beautiful and simple playground upgrade consultation site. This project features a single EngagmentHQ tool – a survey – to gather community feedback along with a number of customisable widgets, which provide site visitors with relevant and useful information.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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