1 - Not Using Online Consultations The benefits of online community engagement are well documented. Not only will you increase your organization’s availability to the public but you will become more cost-efficient than using [...]
A few weeks ago Ethelo's Director of Business Development, Dan Hathway, had the opportunity to fly down to Portland to do a presentation on digital engagement at the annual International Association for Pubic Participation (IAP2) [...]
Ethelo Insight: There are many types of problems and even more solutions. This blog post by Jamie Billingham caught my eye as we are often used as a problem-solving platform for many organizations. To solve problems [...]
Leadnow runs campaigns on the major issues of our time, engages people in participatory decision-making, and organizes in communities across Canada. The Leadnow.ca community believes that as we come together to defend the things we care [...]
This is a handy toolkit you can use when planning community engagement projects. Don't forget to add online engagement as well since over three quarters of the population are now online. Digital engagement is not [...]
Ethelo Insight: With public turnout becoming more of a concern, organizations are looking for alternate ways to reach the public. With up to 80% of the population online and concerns about persistent low public meeting turnouts, [...]
Ethelo Insight: A great example of public outreach in action As protected bike lanes have spread, they’ve created an exciting new era for American traffic engineers, who are once again getting the chance to [...]
Ethelo Insight Digital engagement means using electronic communication tools to expand and strengthen the relationship between organizations and the public. We have more opportunities to get involved in our communities, through a wider array of [...]
In this blog Iain Couzin from Princeton University brings the science of group wisdom even further – where a group solves a problem that none of its members are even aware of. We have [...]
By Kate Milberry There’s little question that much of the conflict in the world arises from disagreement. I want your land, but you live there and don’t want to give it to me. You [...]