This guest blog is by ELGL member Meghan Ruble with Bang the Table. Meghan joined the Bang the Table team after five years working at the local government level. Her experience managing a municipal marketing and communications team left her very familiar with the challenges agencies face when planning and running community engagement projects. She is … Continued
JULY 12, 2018 BY ELGL Webinar: Comprehensive Community Engagement Strategies Friday, July 27, 2018 11:00 a.m. PDT This webinar is cohosted by ELGL and Bang the Table There are many reasons to launch a comprehensive Community Engagement strategy, including increasing reach and capacity, fostering equity, building trust, agency empowerment, creating a shared vision, and mobilizing a community. … Continued
It’s National #CityHallSelfie Day and City Council Meeting Day in @citybeautiful! pic.twitter.com/8R9QVxrovj — Mayor Buddy Dyer (@orlandomayor) August 15, 2016 Under the leadership of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, the City of Orlando’s Office of Communications and Neighborhood Relations developed the iLead program to organize, support, mentor and guide citizens and organizations in their effort to … Continued
We’re live at the IAP2 2018 PI Works Conference in Portland! Over the two day conference, we’re digging deep into public engagement tips, tactics and success stories, courtesy of the good folks from IAP2’s Cascade Chapter. Follow along as we share what we’re learning about how to remove barriers, increase participation and build a more … Continued
We’re live at the IAP2 2018 PI Works Conference in Portland! Over the next two days, we’re digging deep into public engagement tips, tactics and success stories, courtesy of the good folks from IAP2’s Cascade Chapter. Follow along as we share what we’re learning about how to remove barriers, increase participation and build a more … Continued
This guest blog is by Meghan Ruble, Engagement Strategist at Bang the Table. I recently attended a conference where a group presented their community engagement efforts around the merging of two school districts. Whenever changes to schools are proposed, emotional, social, personal and societal dynamics come into play – rarely is it an easy conversation. … Continued
In this post, Bang the Table‘s Engagement Manager, Amanda Nagl, explains how to enhance traditional engagement practices with online strategies. Good community engagement involves both online and in-person methods. Great community engagement, however, blends the two methods together–giving the community a seamless continuum of ways to participate. Goals of in-person events typically include allowing people to … Continued
In this post, Bang the Table‘s Engagement Specialist, Jeremy Shackett, explains how to merge hi-tech and low-tech engagement. When new technology comes along, there is a general anxiety that the old-fashioned way of doing things will disappear. To an extent, it is true. Cars destroyed the horse and buggy industry. Today, Spotify is replacing MP3s, … Continued
This guest blog is by ELGL All-In Member Brent Stockwell, the ACM in Scottsdale, Arizona. Seven years ago, Harris Interactive conducted a poll which found that: “the public feels strongly that government has a responsibility to provide understandable financial information to the public.” That year, Scottsdale, Arizona, launched its first citizen-friendly annual report – an … Continued
“There’s an App for That,” by CitySourced. CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is an enterprise platform that provides governments with a complete native mobile app for residents to communicate with every department of their community: Mobile | Web | 311 | CRM. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 Use Cases for a Mobile App We are incredibly bullish on the possibilities and use cases for a … Continued