Recently, President Barack Obama said that filing taxes should be “at least as easy as ordering a pizza or an airline ticket.” Citizens are increasingly demanding accessible, convenient methods of accessing services and engaging with ...
NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) is a term used to characterize opposition by residents to nearby projects and developments (e.g. housing, infrastructure, energy, facilities for the disadvantaged, etc.) because of the perceived negative impact. As ...
The City of Encinitas has become the first city in California to utilize PlaceSpeak, an award-winning location-based smart cities civic engagement platform, for consulting with residents and key stakeholders on an ongoing basis. “We want to ...
Our blog is full of information about online public consultation and best practices for engaging with the public. However, let’s start at the very beginning. Why should your organization consider engaging online in the first ...
In our recent blog post we discussed a set of essential online engagement tools. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be diving deep into the world of qualitative data and sharing the importance of facilitating two-way ...