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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.
Engaging Residents Through Relevance – Webinar Highlights
PublicInput.com co-hosted a webinar with Planning Supervisor TJ McCourt of Raleigh, NC. McCourt and his team recently received national attention from NRPA’s Parks & Recreation for their Raleigh dog parks project. Watch the highlights or use the jump links to fast-forward.
More Meaningful Feedback: How Online Engagement Software Makes A Difference
Great community engagement relies on getting meaningful feedback from residents on a given project. Meaningful feedback makes engagement efforts worthwhile, provides valuable insights to project teams, and builds public trust by improving the relationship between residents and local government.
The Important Differences Between SurveyMonkey and Public Engagement Software
Using an online survey tool like SurveyMonkey may seem like a no-brainer, but online survey tools like SurveyMonkey are not designed for public engagement - and can even undermine your success.Start with your intention. When considering an engagement tool, it’s important to ask the following…
PublicInput.com launches "last mile" translation service for surveys, project websites
Community engagement software company PublicInput.com is introducing a high-fidelity translation service for local government agencies that instantly translates surveys and project websites, along with expert translator review.
How Do I Get the Word Out? The First Step of Public Engagement
While every community is different, local government agencies often run into the same initial hurdle: how to get the word out about an upcoming project. Keep reading to see best practices for initial outreach and how public engagement software helps government agencies reach underrepresented groups.
Putting people back at the center of the consulting profession – for greater profits, impact, and trust
Public engagement software is helping consultants become more community-centric — and achieve greater profit, impact, and trust along the way.
Online Town Hall: A powerful online community engagement tool
Typical approaches to community engagement are being augmented as government organizations adopt new technology. While community engagement efforts in the past mostly focused on manual processes and in-person communication, online town halls are increasing reach and equity in the community engagement process.
Community Engagement Software Quantifies Public Perceptions on Parking, Traffic
Cities of every size are subject to traffic and parking issues. Every town has roads, commuters, pedestrians, bikers - not to mention limits created by zoning, space, or capacity for infrastructure. Exeter, New Hampshire is a town of 15,000 residents. Over the past year parking and traffic have been garnering more attention from the public, the Select Board, and regional press.
3CMA Annual Conference: What We Learned
Held in Milwaukee this September, the 3CMA Annual Conference gathered hundreds of government communicators eager to learn from one another about how to accomplish better community engagement. There was plenty to be inspired by, as speakers presented on their efforts both offline and online. We heard about how Kansas City, Missouri was reaching a new audience by holding public meetings at breweries and how Sandy, Utah was making more informed policy decisions through data collection and visual reporting…