Archive for 2016
[WEBINAR] A Recipe for Award-Winning Online Community Engagement with Metro Nashville Planning Commission
This highly visual webinar video presents research finding and proven best practices, practical tips and award-winning case studies to guide agencies towards the successful application of online community engagement for planning projects. Viewers will walk away with an understanding about how to leverage digital engagement to achieve unprecedented results using cost effective tools (see participant…
Read More[TIPS] Good & Bad News: 6 Trends in Online Community Engagement
Civic tech, and particularly online community engagement, has grown dramatically over the past few years. For years the field was in it’s infancy with only a few players and early adopters experimenting with new approaches. We’re now in the teenage years, with rapid growth in the number of vendors and agencies taking the leap. As…
Read More[CONFERENCE] Community Engagement Highlights from APA 2016
Whether you attended the American Planning Association 2016 National Conference or not, you likely missed some of the great dialogue on community engagement, because the program was packed. As I do every year, I did my best to catch as many highlights, takeaways, and trends as possible. Here are ones that stood out for me…
Read More[TIPS] What I Learned When an Angry Mob Destroyed My Public Meeting
One of my pet peeves is how we fill conference programs and websites with the most successful case studies and we don’t talk about our most potent learning experiences – when things went wrong. Maybe we just need a safe place to talk about these important learning opportunities. When things go wrong in public engagement,…
Read More[INSIGHTS] Tip of the Iceberg: Seeking Real Accessibility in Community Engagement
Ensuring that community engagement opportunities are open to all residents is not only the law, it’s also good for planning. Incorporating a diversity of viewpoints improves plans, facilitates implementation, and frankly leads to better communities that meet the needs of all residents. Unfortunately too often the accessibility discussion doesn’t get out of first gear. When…
Read More[WEBINAR] Best Practices for Online Public Engagement for DOTs
This 41-minute video presents a series of case studies, best practices and tips to guide DOT’s towards the successful application of online public engagement for a variety of projects. Award-winning LRTP, STIP, TIP, NEPA, EIS, corridor, highway, transit, TOD and participatory budgeting projects that successfully leveraged innovative digital engagement are presented. From crowdsourcing platforms to…
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