Nov 28, 2013 | Community Engagement, Planning, Public transport, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
As a community and stakeholder engagement professional I’m attracted to notices advertising stakeholder engagement activities and inviting feedback. I’m a public transport user and was waiting 35 minutes for a bus one weekend in September when visiting ...
Sep 27, 2013 | Community Engagement, Planning, Sustainability
Show me the money! When a property owner values something highly, will offering an incentive change their view? In Los Angeles, with its huge need for water savings, the Water & Power Department will pay the homeowner over a thousand dollars to get rid of their...
Sep 16, 2013 | Community Engagement, Stakeholder engagement, Tech tools for engagement
Ever used Dotmocracy? # Note Dotmocracy is now known as Ideas Rating Creator Jason Diceman, describes it as a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people. I’ve used the dotmocracy sheets in large and small groups, in...
Aug 22, 2013 | Citizen committees, Community Engagement
In a recent discussion on re-purposing standing citizen committees on LinkedIn, a contributor suggested that an organisation should have no more than 3 such council committees, with everything else done by time-limited work groups. Say that number was 5 … as a...
Aug 2, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, It's cultural!
A month or so I spoke at a great community engagement on Future of Identity. An initiative of the Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages, it was put together by Doing Something Good. With huge changes around identity and social media, the Office wanted to hear from...
May 24, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Stakeholder engagement
IAP2 notified me this week that an abstract I submitted for their annual conference was up on Survey Monkey and I should vote for my preferences in a chosen stream … and because I had an abstract in of course I had to take a look! But once my voting was over I...
