Webinars

With COVID-19 concerns and more public gatherings being canceled or postponed each day, we want to share a few tips and reminders that may prove useful during this time.

Change isn’t always easy. Learn strategies and processes from the City of Parker as we explore their journey to gaining organizational adoption and launching their online community engagement site.

Explore the important role of online platforms and how they can be used to deliver emergency management strategies and support ongoing disaster recovery efforts.

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.