Archive for January, 2009

Willoughby Climate Action Campaign

Willoughby City Council has commenced a Bang the Table consultation on its climate action campaign asking its community to contribute ideas and to help them ensure that Council action to reduce emissions are meaningful in the community. To view the consultation click here

Willoughby Performing Arts

A consultation on the performing arts in Willoughby which specifically focuses on the Zenith Theatre has commenced on Bang the Table click here to go to the page.

Online Communities

We’ve been having some discussions recently about whether online community engagement is about providing other more convenient means of engaging communities as we have traditionally seen them or whether the online community is a different thing with different composition, traditions, protocols and behaviours. If so perhaps this community can only be engaged online? I found … Continue reading 

The Marketer blogs about Bang the Table

For those of you who don’t follow the excellent blog by ‘The Marketer‘ here is an article published in November about the Bang the Table Newcastle Rail consultation. It’s an interesting perspective. November 02, 2008 Newcastle social media site ‘Bang the Table’ bangs political heads In a small way, Newcastle’s social media scene is a … Continue reading 

The count down to Mosman roundtable

Mosman Council on the North Shore of Sydney are going live with an online community engagement process tomorrow (click the here to go to the page). I’m looking forward to seeing it. I know they have gone to a lot of effort and, after chatting to them about it, I have high expectations for what … Continue reading 

Democracy in action

I saw this today on the ABC Australia news site. It made me laugh – I’m not sure what the lessons might be here other than that these things have a way of getting found out! We block multiple logins on Bang the Table but I do find myself feeling some sympathy (but not much) … Continue reading