Webinars

Join this webinar and learn how the design of your site, projects and questions can drive participation, along with unique marketing and communication strategies to pull new participants in.

In this webinar, Michelle Stephens, AICP, explores opportunities to streamline the development review process through comprehensive and transparent stakeholder engagement. Development review public engagement challenges, as well as examples from communities who are using online tools to connect with their stakeholders will be explored.

Join Amanda Nagl, US Practice Lead, on a journey through online engagement 2019 and a preview of 2020.  We will explore some of the US Team’s favorite sites and highlight the reasons why they excel in both design and participation.  We will also look at EngagementHQ upgrades hot off the release and take a sneak peek at what’s to come.

This webinar features Balancing Act CEO, Chris Adams, who will share best practices in budget engagement from more than 75 local governments worldwide. Learn about the three C’s of budget engagement—constraints, context and consequences—and how you can use them to get input and buy-in from residents on your budget.

Join Stéphanie Beauregard, Practice Lead and Engagement Manager at Bang the Table, as she explores the differences between requesting citizen participation and building trusting relationships with continuous communication and always closing the loop. She helps us answer the important question of “How do we ensure we are not just using participants as machines to provide feedback, but rather become partners in our decisions?”

Join Bang the Table, City of Longmont and The Participation Company as we explore the IAP2 Spectrum and how it is being used in the online space for role clarity and to delineate engagement types; setting clear expectations for staff, council, and community.

Join Rikki March, Senior Digital Communication Officer with Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, as we discuss their Renting in QLD consultation as a case study for how a government department used online engagement in a government context.

The City of Kingston, Ontario was named the 2019 IAP2 Organization of the Year in Canada for engaging on engagement. In this webinar, Debbie Miller, Manager of Public Engagement at the City of Kingston, shares their approach to building a culture of engagement and how it’s been received by city officials and the community at large.

Not every topic or decision may require face to face events, but many still do, and that makes online engagement a part of an overall continuum of ways to connect governments to the people they serve. Join us for this webinar as we discuss a 10 step process for community engagement, designed to help organizations overcome challenges and develop a successful engagement program incorporating both online and face to face engagement.

Join us for this collaborative webinar with Dan Aston, Marketing Manager at CrowdControlHQ, and Jonathan Bradley, Engagement Specialist & Practice Lead at Bang The Table. We examine how digital and social media engagement helps foster stronger relationships with citizens, and bring huge benefits in improved decision-making around key topics or campaigns.