Archive for May, 2009

How should we engage you?

A consultation has just commenced on the Bang the Table website where the ACT Chief Minister’s Office is asking the community about how they like to engage, including online methodologies. I think this will be an interesting one to watch. Generally speaking ‘how should we engage you’ is not the sort of issue with grass … Continue reading →

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PS… Graphical illustration of Scale of the Difference between Projects

This graph was meant to be the supporting image for the previous post… It illustrates the scale difference between projects that receive large flows of traffic and comments compared to those that don’t. Keep in mind that all of these consultations were for local issues – rather than State or National. The largest project – … Continue reading →

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Make it Concrete

I’ve been attempting to write a post for a couple of weeks now about what drives traffic to our online forums. If I had a bin in the corner it would be full to overflowing with earlier drafts of a tedious and over-thought thesis on the difference between our sites that “go off” and the … Continue reading →

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Are older people really under represented in an online engagement?

A while ago I wrote about some of the issues we encounter when engaging youth online and how people sometimes assume that young people will come to a website just because it is a website. Of course this is wrong. Equally wrong are the people who assume that older people (the over 65s) cannot be … Continue reading →

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More on Twitter

I’ve been looking around for more on Twitter and found 2 articles that I wanted to share on the blog Social Media Today the first in a post by Themos Kalafatis who has done a statistical analysis on usage patterns likely to lead to success on Twitter: Some usage patterns that raise the chance of … Continue reading →

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Twitter Guidelines

Many organisations are coming to grips with the best ways to use Twitter. I’ve been meaning to share a few things I have learned but have been distracted by one thing or another for a while. This morning I’ve been reading the eGov blog put together by Craig Thomler in which he has highlighted guidelines … Continue reading →

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Another great video – New York Bicycle Lane Planning

I know I keep harping on about using video, and will get over it at some point I’m sure. But this is just such a great example of a great use of video that I just had to share it…

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Transcript of Planning Minister's endorsement of online engagement

Just following up from my posting the other day about online community engagement getting a ringing endorsement from Kristina Keneally the NSW Minister for Planning, I have now been able to locate the transcript of the interview (thanks to the Minister’s office) and the relevant sections are below. Kristina Keneally talking to Deb Cameron re … Continue reading →

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Video as an Online Community Engagement Tool

We have written a few times now about using video as part of an online community engagement strategy. Matt posted the video by the Mayor of Wellington NZ introducing their strategic planning project and wrote about Mosman Council’s community vox pops. A couple of weeks back I wrote a long post about using video as … Continue reading →

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Place based social networks

I think it is fair to say that, traditionally, the online community has been defined by issues and communities of interest rather than by geographic place. There are websites dedicated to just about any issue you care to name and, similarly, there are places online for people interested in those issues to congregate. What we … Continue reading →

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Ministerial Endorsement for online engagement

I was driving into Sydney yesterday listing to Deborah Cameron’s morning show on local ABC. She was interviewing the NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally. The Minister clearly committed herself to improved cvommunity engagement and she specifically earmarked online community engagement techniques as playing an important part in the way communities are engaged in the future. … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the 10 Golden Rules of Online Engagement

Last August whilst at the Glasgow IAP2 congress I posted 10 Golden Rules of Community Engagement to this blog. I remember at the time I was nursing the mother of all hangovers after some wonderful Glaswegian hospitality. The post got some attention and was reproduced some months later in Government Magazine. I thought it would … Continue reading →

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