Best Practice Engagement Newsletter

Learn from your peers and the engagement community at Bang the Table.

Benefits of Online Community Engagement

Community engagement is built on the democratic idea that everyone who is affected by an issue that impacts their community should have a say in the decision making around it.

Have a read on how engaging online allows for a wider, more diverse range of views, which provides new, relevant knowledge to contribute to decision making.

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7 Tips to Overcome Common Issues with Digital Engagement

Deploy strategies to overcome common issues you’ll face when launching your online engagement platform. From promoting your projects to creating a culture of engagement, these tips can help build a solid engagement statement.

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Facilitating Public Conversations in the Bilingual Community of Moncton

Stéphanie Beaureguard, Practice Lead at Bang the Table, and Nicole Melanson, Manager, Communications and Bilingual Services at the City of Moncton, sit down to discuss how a digital engagement platform has made public participation across a multilingual community a seamless endeavor.

Find out how Let’s Chat Moncton is internally streamlining project information gathering while communicating clearly to a multilingual public.

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NHS Duty to Involve and
Digital First Engagement

What if face-to-face patient and public involvement was no longer an option? How does digital first engagement relate to the most regulated field of public participation in the world?

Read NHS's story on how they are taking a digital first approach to community engagement and the results they have achieved.

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Our Monthly Staff Pick

Have Your Say Canterbury Bankstown

Bankstown CBN is planning for future growth, estimating they will double the number of jobs, students and residents in their community over the next 20 years. Their Complete Streets project is looking for community feedback on future planning to support this growth. This comprehensive engagement project is using interactive maps and artist impressions embedded in the body of the project description, along with key documents and a comprehensive Life Cycle to assist with informing participants of future plans.

This is a terrific example of a council undertaking an ongoing multi-stage engagement with their community on a high-value and impactful project. The design of the project page is engaging, interactive and simple, allowing the community to give feedback on the draft Plan.

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Engagement Projects of the Month

Gauging What Your Community Cares About

What better way to find out what your residents want to learn and discuss than asking them!

As the City of Savannah, Georgia launches their new Engagement Platform, Your Say Savannah is asking for the public's input on what topics interest their community.

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What's Your Flavour?
City of Canning offers fun incentive for Registration

Receiving community engagement feedback can be quite exciting! But when you are launching a new site or your registration numbers are low, it might be time to get creative.

Your Say Canning had the clever idea to offer a fun ice cream incentive to increase registration as they launch their new engagement site. See how they showed their community they were listening with What's Your Flavor?

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