Posts by Dave Biggs
[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…
Read More[WEBINAR] Getting the Most Out of Online Engagement
This webinar presents an overview of the MetroQuest Public Involvement Software to help both new and existing users get the best results from their online community engagement. The video covers the latest features, screen types, best practices and tips on everything from planning and promoting your site to analyzing and reporting the results. You’ll learn…
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