In a great sign that online community engagement is further embedding itself as part of leading edge practice the lovely folk at AmericaSpeaks are looking for a new Director of Online Engagement to work out its Washington DC offices. The Director of Online Engagement and Participation will lead AmericaSpeaks’ initiatives to design, facilitate and organize [...]
@craigthomler, of eGov fame and one of the leaders of Gov20 in Australia, has embarrased me by taking our little book, 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online, and turned it into a wiki! Why didn’t I think of that? What a marvellous idea. Craig has created the site to allow us all to [...]
Your’s truly is looking forward to playing host at an upcoming forum on Interactive Community Engagement for the Public Sector in Sydney on September 13th and 14th. The one day forum and one day workshop has a terrific program including a great list of speakers from a wide range of sectors and agencies including the [...]
An email popped into my inbox this week from Dr Lyn Carson of the University of Western Sydney. Lyn is, in my humble estimation, one of a handful of leading thinkers in Australia on the subject of Community Engagement. Developing the practice of both on and off-line community engagement is something I am very committed [...]
We are very pleased to annouce the launch of a new online consultation site for the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority (VBBRA). Like just about everyone living in Victoria, Bang the Table, had friends and colleagues directly affected by the terrible fires during February 2009. We are very happy to be able to participate [...]