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WINNER: Organized Chaos: Creative Engagement Solutions for Emergency Preparedness

Organized Chaos was chosen as the ELGL/UTA Challenge WINNER for their creative engagement solution in Emergency Preparedness! We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness....

How Online Engagement Can Support Meaningful Policy Change

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...

Top 10 Tips for Planners to Engage the Community

APRIL 20, 2017 BY SARAH HENRICKS In this post, Bang the Table CEO, Matthew Crozier, gives his top 10 tips for planners to use online tools for engaging the community. Planners are among the earliest adopters of online tools to increase community engagement. The wisest planners have already worked out that the bad old days of being held hostage by small vocal...

How Online Engagement Can Support Meaningful Policy Change

This guest blog is by ELGL member Meghan Ruble with 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. A rather untold story of the community engagement sphere is how effective...

Cocktails, Community, & Creativity at #ELGL18

Join Bang the Table on Thursday, May 17, 2018 from 6 to 10 at the Table Mountain Inn in downtown Golden for an evening of Cocktails, Community and Creativity! COMPLIMENTARY COCKTAILS & TACO BAR - All-you-can-eat & drink beer, wine, margarita, and taco bar (6 to 8 so don't be late!) COMMUNITY - In the spirit of celebrating community, come...

Community Conversations - Buzzin'

Right Now with Ben What I'm Reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel I love this book. I started reading it on Saturday and couldn't put it down until I finished it last night. Station Eleven tells the story of a world rocked by a flu epidemic. One so bad that society as we...

Public Engagement & Participation Questionnaire

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is an exciting opportunity from ELGL member Josephine Gatti Schafer! She's asking ELGL members to evaluate some new research on community engagement. Learn more from Josephine below, and please take this quick survey - as a thank you, you'll get access to a helpful one-page evidence synthesis on academic research on engagement and local...

New Ebook: Citizen Engagement with the Changing City

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This free e-book is offered to ELGL members by ELGL partner Bang the Table. With a focus on smart cities and increasing urbanization, Dr. Shauna Brail provides insight into the use of community engagement that promotes a more inclusive and effective means of city-building. Several case studies from across the globe reflect how “social...

The Best of Both Worlds for Your Community?

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...

Building Trust to Engage Your Community

In this post, Bang the Table‘s Engagement Manager, Casey Earp, explains how to merge hi-tech and low-tech engagement. Today, more than ever, the politically charged environment in America creates challenges for governments at all levels to find ways to build rapport with the communities they serve. Although the visceral discourse and divide is most visible at...

The Low-Tech: Merging Online with In-Person Engagement

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,...

The Importance of Compliance in an Engagement Website

In this post, Bang the Table‘s own Mark Pivon talks about the importance of making sure your website is accessible and compliant. **************************************************************************************************************************** The Importance of WCAG Compliance for Your Engagement Website A federal District Court judge in Miami recently ruled in favor of a citizen who initiated a lawsuit against a retailer for failing to make...

I Have to Ask You: Increasing Digital Engagement

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Kara Sokol shares digital engagement tips. By Kara Sokol, Director of Communications, City of Ferndale, Michigan In my eight years managing social media for organizations, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about increasing fans and engagement....

Is Your Engagement Process Really Inclusive?

In this post, Bang the Table‘s Engagement Manager, Casey Earp, offers tips to make your community engagement efforts truly inclusive. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It is Sunday afternoon and your tires are melting in your driveway. There aren’t many sports teams to cheer for and even less to watch on TV. What do you do? Grab the Sunday newspaper!...

Six Pack of Engagement Case Studies

#ELGL17 sponsor and all-in member Bang the Table provides the latest resources on citizen engagement. Learn more by contacting Matt Crozier - matt@bangthetable.com or Casey Earp - casey@bangthetable.com. Case Studies Resilient Together: As part of the 100 Resilient Cities network, the City of Boulder uses EngagementHQ to educate citizens on resiliency and gather ideas on how...

Podcast: Citizen Engagement with Matthew Crozier of Bang the Table

Matthew Crozier CEO & Co-Founder Bang the Table Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Figuring out the best way to get residents involved and participating in local government has been a hot topic in cities across the country. Matthew Crozier from Bang the Table has been doing engagement work around the world and came on GovLove to...

Top 10 Tips for Planners to Engage the Community

In this post, Bang the Table CEO, Matthew Crozier, gives his top 10 tips for planners to use online tools for engaging the community. Planners are among the earliest adopters of online tools to increase community engagement. The wisest planners have already worked out that the bad old days of being held hostage by small vocal minorities...

Heavyweight Online Engagement by Bantamweight Cities

In this post, Bang the Table CEO, Matthew Crozier, explains how small cities can use online engagement practices to optimize their impact. Small cities punching above their weight in online engagement practice The need for cities to connect with their communities has never been greater. The proliferation of fake news and deep political divisions in...

Kittelson's Corner: Budget Engagement

Welcome back to Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. I have a new favorite GIF and it works as a response to pretty much everything. Alright, let's go. What I Read Zarif Khan's Tamales and the Muslims of Sheridan, Wyoming This is a long...

The Role of Libraries in Advancing Community Goals

In September 2016, Amy Garner, Aspen Institute, appeared on GovLove to discuss a nationwide survey of local government officials’ perspectives on public libraries. As a follow up to that conversation, we are providing you the findings of this survey and encourage you to use it as a discussion starter in your community. Aspen ICMA Survey Release-Libraries Complete...