Community Engagement & Development Blog
Harnessing the full power of your community engagement platform requires effective moderation. This ensures vibrant, inclusive dialogue and boosts trust. Dive into best practices to enhance the quality and productivity of the conversations on your platform.
Harnessing the full power of your community engagement platform requires effective moderation. This ensures vibrant, inclusive dialogue and boosts trust. Dive into best practices to enhance the quality and productivity of the conversations on your platform.
Every local government and organization that has ever launched a community engagement project knows the challenge: How do you reach underheard groups? In this article, we’ll cover some of the good practices to follow for inclusive community engagement so that you’ll be ready to set up your participation broadly and activate even hard-to-reach target groups.
Every local government and organization that has ever launched a community engagement project knows the challenge: How do you reach underheard groups? In this article, we’ll cover some of the good practices to follow for inclusive community engagement so that you’ll be ready to set up your participation broadly and activate even hard-to-reach target groups.
While the full participation ladder is made up of various methods for community engagement, sometimes local government projects simply necessitate a fast and decisive turnaround when consulting residents and other stakeholders. At CitizenLab, we’ve seen this echoed in the popularity of the upvoting/downvoting options on our platform, and decided to further expand these capabilities by beginning to build a suite of Voting Methods.
While the full participation ladder is made up of various methods for community engagement, sometimes local government projects simply necessitate a fast and decisive turnaround when consulting residents and other stakeholders. At CitizenLab, we’ve seen this echoed in the popularity of the upvoting/downvoting options on our platform, and decided to further expand these capabilities by beginning to build a suite of Voting Methods.
Across the globe, government teams are leveraging a CitizenLab platform to tap into the collective intelligence of their communities and shape their futures together with residents. In this month’s selection for our inspiring platforms series, we take you on a trip across different countries to learn more about other local governments’ work and inspire your community engagement efforts!
Across the globe, government teams are leveraging a CitizenLab platform to tap into the collective intelligence of their communities and shape their futures together with residents. In this month’s selection for our inspiring platforms series, we take you on a trip across different countries to learn more about other local governments’ work and inspire your community engagement efforts!
Do you have a small team dedicated to community engagement efforts? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The City of Allen has demonstrated how a small team can achieve excellent results by fostering widespread support throughout the organization and crafting a robust engagement strategy, strongly facilitated by its online community engagement platform.
Exploring the potential of community engagement, we encounter a multitude of innovative projects hosted on CitizenLab platforms. From urban redevelopment projects to comprehensive planning initiatives, environmental collaborations for a greener future, to even reshaping citywide celebrations – the possibilities are expansive. Learn more about the work of other local governments and let it inspire your own community engagement efforts!
