This guest blog post is by Meghan Ruble, Head of Client Services – North America, Bang the Table There is a lot of fear that swirls around online engagement work, and reasonably so. Whether you’re accustomed to running public meetings or managing your organization’s communication channels, you can always count on receiving more than your … Continued
By Jeremy Shackett, Engagement Manager, Bang the Table Of all the community engagement misconceptions I have heard, one stands out for its cynicism: Engagement isn’t even worth it in the first place. Many organizations sleepwalk through the community engagement journey. They do things the way they have always done them and get the same results. … Continued
This guest post is by Anthea Robinson-Shaw, Engagement and Client Account Manager with Bang the Table Now, more than ever, tighter budgets and fewer hands-on-deck may require spending justification when considering online engagement. However, when truly investigating the value of online engagement, this cost-benefit relationship goes far beyond numbers. While in-person consultation will always be … Continued
This guest blog is by Jeremy Shackett, Engagement Strategist at Bang the Table. Do you ever find yourself at the bottom of a rabbit hole of TikToks or YouTube videos? Do you ever go to Amazon looking for one book, and realize you have two books, a stapler, an air fryer, and a set of … Continued
This guest post is by Stéphanie Beauregard, Practice Lead with Bang the Table. You have to report the results of your consultation with your community, with decision-makers and, perhaps, even some of your expert teams. How do you ensure that the outcome of your consultation is well-documented? Step 1: Build Your Project Effectively By clearly … Continued
Bang the Table’s Engagement Manager Meghan Ruble shares her top 30 ways to design a better public meeting I spent the last week traveling through Eastern Canada with Bang the Table’s North American Engagement team and our Co-Founder and Impact Lead, Crispin Butteriss, PhD. We got together to share ideas, plan for the future, and hear … Continued
Bang the Table’s Engagement Manager, Casey Earp, and City of Golden, Colorado’s Senior Planner, Amber Wesner share some tricks of the trade for expanding your audience. Last week I presented at the Colorado APA conference alongside Amber Wesner, Senior Planner for the City of Golden, Colorado, about how the city is using online engagement tools to … Continued
DECEMBER 14, 2017 BY SARAH HENRICKS Brought to you by CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook), an enterprise platform for local and state government that was founded in 2008. Citizen engagement is the holy grail of the work done by local government. Of course, local government helps maintain our core infrastructures like roads, sewers, and waterways; it also provides public education for … Continued
Bang the Table Engagement Manager Jeremy Shackett shares strategies to sustain community engagement. The end goal of community engagement is not just to secure a few hundred survey responses for your next project, but to actually cultivate an engaged community. The traditional public outreach process involves hosting a few public meetings, posting materials on the … Continued
Travis Parker, City of Lakewood Colorado Planning Director, writes about how the role of technology played in changing the public hearing process in Lakewood. Throughout our country the business of local government is conducted in public hearings. Councils, boards and commissions sit behind a dais on a weeknight and listen to public comment before deliberating … Continued