Online public consultation will benefit immensely when integrated with a broader social media strategy. Here are 7 quick tips from Government Technology on how organizations, and particularly governments can improve their social media performance and engagement with residents.
After our earlier post on defining civic engagement, we wanted to take a closer look at what digital engagement is; and why it is an important part of the civic engagement spectrum. Digital engagement uses ...
From time to time, we will be featuring some of the projects that have been hosted on PlaceSpeak to give you and idea of the different ways that PlaceSpeak is being used in the community. ...
We recently launched a PlaceSpeak page on Google+, the new social networking service by Google: If you’re already on Google+, please circle and +1 us! If you are not, we suggest you consider joining. Also, be sure to check out all ...
Updated for 2014. One of the biggest and most important ways residents can ‘claim their place’ and ‘speak their mind’ is by voting in local elections. Unfortunately municipal elections seem to be the forgotten step-child ...