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Virtual Public Meetings: New legal guidance for Community Engagement
Find the legal guidelines for your state in hosting virtual public meetings for community engagement
Below, we've ...
From the Success Team: Best practices for hosting a virtual public meeting
Nationwide, agencies are transitioning to virtual meetings and many are left with guesswork when it comes to ...
New solutions to address virtual public meeting challenges
In light of the recent FBI warning against publicly sharing video conference service links, we’ve received an ...
Announcing Virtual Meeting Tools: Integrated live stream, webinars, and screen sharing
In light of the coronavirus, government organizations are finding themselves in a new landscape when it comes to ...
Communication During Coronavirus: Webinars, Engagement Playbook & Turnkey Public Engagement Software
Public engagement efforts tend to follow a regular ebb and flow, but the arrival of COVID-19 is dramatically ...
Unified Public Involvement: How DOTs are accelerating project development through better data management
How can we accelerate projects by making public involvement more efficient and more meaningful?
A recent ...
Ranking vs. Select Multiple: Best practices for engagement questions
How Question Type Impacts Engagement Outcomes
Engagement pages are a great tool to help agencies educate residents ...
From The Success Team: Top 5 Online Help Articles For Community Engagement
When it comes to public engagement, we all want great results representative of the entire community. However, ...
Transit agencies: 3 steps to gather more public feedback that can also increase ridership
“Who is our audience?”
It is important for transit agencies to ensure that current riders are having a great ...
Public engagement questions to ask consultants during a ‘shortlist’ interview
Public engagement is an important part of your consultant’s work, yet many agencies can have trouble deciding ...
3 Public Involvement Trends To Look Out for in 2020
What's in store for 2020?
The way government organizations are approaching public involvement is changing ...
TransLoc partners with PublicInput.com to increase community involvement in microtransit services
PublicInput.com’s software will help transit agencies boost ridership by capturing rider sentiment and needs ...
Case Study: NCDOT Increases Community Engagement & Accelerates Projects
NCDOT brings unified approach to public involvement to increase community engagement and accelerate ...
IAP2 Recap: Better Decisions Made Together
This past month over 250 public participation professionals came together in Charlotte at The IAP2 North America ...
Better together: IAP2 Best Practices and Public Participation Software
The IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation
When public involvement practitioners are looking for best practices, ...
Mixed Mode Surveying: A best practice for increasing equity in public engagement
What is mixed-mode surveying?
Academics and researchers have long heralded “mixed-mode” surveying, the ...
Five Tactics Guaranteed to Increase Community Engagement
See how government organizations are increasing community engagement by lowering barriers to public participation.
3 Benefits Of Working With Consultants Who Use Innovative Community Engagement Software
Trusting a consulting professional with the community engagement process, whether for a single project or over the ...
National survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) reveals real challenges gaining public involvement
A nationwide survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) serving metropolitan areas of 200,000 or more citizens offers new insights into how challenging it is to gain public input for important public works projects.
The Benefits of Closing the Community Engagement Feedback Loop
Closing the feedback loop to report findings is one step in the public engagement process that may be overlooked because of a lack of staff time or bandwidth. After collecting public input and finding key insights, we might often go straight to outlining a plan without following up with residents on how their input may have impacted that plan.
PublicInput.com on GovLove: The 5 most common community engagement pitfalls
Community engagement - whether in a town of 5,000 or a major metropolis - comes down to intention and design. PublicInput.com CEO Jay Dawkins spoke about this, and five common pitfalls of community engagement, in a recent episode of the ELGL podcast, GovLove.