Archive for June, 2010

Bang the Table finds a home at last

Our new office – Bang the Table View more presentations from Bang the Table. For nearly three years we’ve been determined to be the very model of a modern 21st Century business. Everyone has been happily working from our homes dotted across Australia and around the world. Over the past twelve months we’ve grown from … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to the Bang the Table website?

Bang the Table has transitioned from a single website exhibiting forums for many clients to many websites using the EngagementHQ Platform each of which has individual client branding. We believe that this leads to much better results from online engagement processes. This blog post discusses why we have made this move.

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Two Years of Online Community Engagement with Marrickville Council’s Rachel Trigg

Rachel Trigg is one of the first of a growing number of Corporate Development Managers to have used Bang the Table’s Engagement HQ forums to consult their community on the Council’s strategic plan; first at Waverley Council in 2009, and just recently with the Marrickville Council in 2010. Tam:  So Rachel, can you tell me … Continue reading →

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Inactive to active: getting users over that “activation” hurdle

The EngagementHQ user registration process is designed around our belief that online community consultation is best achieved when participants can remain anonymous. And this is balanced against the need to prevent hijacking of discussions by special interest groups or loud minorities. To maintain this balance, the registration process requires that the would-be participant provide us … Continue reading →

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We’re celebrating Gov. 2.0 Hero Day!

GovFresh this year announced that June 15 would now be Gov.2.0 Hero Day.  A day to celebrate the people both inside and outside of Government who have stepped, jumped, skipped and galloped into the new and burgeoning world of online community engagement. Here at Bang the Table we’re in an unequalled position to give a … Continue reading →

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Bang the Table climbs New Heights in the Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains City Council is responsible for one of the largest municipal areas in the world.  As an area completely surrounded by World Heritage listed forest, it means that the environment and the relationship that the community has with it, is embedded deeply within the Council’s psyche. Adrienne Murphy spent 12 years as an … Continue reading →

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Welcome to our new website

As I am sure you will have noticed this blog has now moved from Blogger to our new website.  Hopefully it has done so without losing any content or readers along the way. I hope you will take a few moments to explore the site which is designed to better assist people to understand our … Continue reading →

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EngagementHQ Demo Video – take 1

I made a demo video for EngagementHQ last week to try to address the perenial problem of not being able to keep up with demand for meetings. I’m not especially proud of the production quality or clarity and it has absolutely no artistic merit but I thought I would post it here out of interest. … Continue reading →

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