Blogs

Taming the Hybrid Public Meeting Chaos: A Unified Approach to Speaker Management

Picture this: it’s 6:58 PM, two minutes before your public meeting goes live.  You have a clipboard of in-person speaker sign-in sheets, a Zoom window with a dozen raised virtual hands, and a...

Reclaim Your Week With AI Meeting Minutes

End the Post-Meeting Documentation Scramble The meeting ends. The room empties. The Zoom window closes. And for clerks, administrators, and public engagement staff, the real work begins — hours of...

From Outreach to Outcomes: How to Build an Integrated Community Engagement System

When Engagement is a System, Insight Becomes Action Many agencies manage outreach, engagement, and reporting as separate tasks. When these pieces don’t connect, valuable resident input can get lost or...

Why Local Governments Benefit from a Resident-Centric CRM

Tracking community engagement in local government is more complex than ever. Residents reach out via email, phone, social media, public meetings, and more. Without a centralized system, it’s easy for...

Finding the Magic in the Numbers: Turning Public Sector Data Into Impact

Finding the Magic in the Numbers By Lori Croy, APR If you work in government communications long enough, you start to hear a familiar refrain:    “We’ve got the data.”   And usually, that’s true. We...

PublicInput Named to the GovTech 100 List for Third Consecutive Year

PublicInput, the leading community engagement platform for the public sector, is proud to announce its inclusion in the 2026 GovTech 100. This prestigious annual list, compiled by Government...

Death by a Thousand Tabs: Why Spreadsheets and Zoom Don’t Work for California Public Meetings

SB 707 didn’t create the complexity—it exposed why fragmented tools no longer meet California’s public meeting requirements. Public meetings are the bedrock of government, fostering transparency and...

Community Engagement Reporting: Turning Participation Into Proof

When reporting is designed as a shared process, engagement data becomes understanding—not just documentation. Collecting community input is essential, but it’s not enough.  To build trust and move...