Archive for August, 2010

Young people on social networks

I’ve been preparing a presentation for an Australian Marketing Institute conference this week and have been a bit perplexed by the representation of the use of Facebook and Twitter by young people. Twitter stats are difficult but there seems to be general acceptance that young people are underrepresented on the platform. Stats from the blog … Continue reading →

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Reporting with EngagementHQ

Bang the Table co-founder and Director, Matt Crozier, talks about EngagementHQ’s integrated reporting.

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Talkin’ ’bout our Moderation

Bang the Table co-founder and Director, Matt Crozier, talks about our 24/7 independent moderation service.

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Have your say Surf Coast

Surf Coast Shire, the gateway to the Great Ocean Road, on Victoria’s south coast has just launched its new community consultation portal, Have Your Say Surf Coast. The site has been launched with a forum about the future growth of the Torquay – Jan Juc area famous for the iconic surf spot, Bells Beach.

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Social Networking and Education

I was lucky enough to be invited to the beautiful town of Canmore in the Canadian Rockies to speak to a gathering of Albertan school superintendents earlier this month.  My slides from the conference are available below. Social Networking and Education: Realising the Potential As you can see from the photos below, I found some … Continue reading →

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A sleek new user experience

We’ve been working on a couple of very exciting user interface changes to EngagementHQ over the last few weeks and are very happy to announce that we upgraded http://bangthetable.com with the changes last night! Over the next few days we will be carefully upgrading all of our clients’ sites. These changes are principally designed to … Continue reading →

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Willoughby Council launches EngagementHQ Portal

Willoughby City Council in Sydney’s northern suburbs has launched a new online engagement portal this morning. The Bang the Table team have been working with Council for close to two years on a wide range of issues using the Bang the Table site as their online community engagement presence. Council has now rebranded the EngagementHQ … Continue reading →

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Stephani Roy McCallum on OUTRAGE!

Based in Canada and a Director of Dialogue Partners Inc, Stephani recently spoke on “Transforming Outrage into Collaboration” at a full house IAP2 Leadership Breakfast, sharing the platform with fellow Canadian “outrage” specialist Gale Simpson. Bang the Table is deeply grateful for the time she spent speaking with Tam Shardlow on her work, passions and … Continue reading →

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vlog: Becky Hirst

Tam Shardlow talks with our South Australian Associate, Becky Hirst, about everything from how she moved from a likely career in contemporary dance to a successful career in community engagement; contemporary community engagement practice in South Australia; and the differences between practice in her native UK and Australia.

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Six Communications Risks for Engaging Online

We do a lot of presentations to public sector organisations. Unsurprisingly we get asked a lot of the same questions over and over again. Communications professionals more often than not relate back to how an online forum could impact the integrity of their organisational brand. We’ve selected the top six most frequently asked of questions … Continue reading →

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Cultivating your Community Panel

Community Panels are rapidly becoming recognised as a valuable community engagement tool by many Councils across Australia. Anne Sharp and Katherine Anderson from the University of South Australia’s Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science have published an article in the latest edition of the (Australian) Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance titled “Online citizen panels as an … Continue reading →

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Melville Council Cares about Culture

The City of Melville in Western Australia has launched its first online consultation using EngagementHQ. They are after ideas from the community to feed into the Cultural Vitality Plan. The team have done a great job in setting up the site with lots of fabulous pictures (including the one above) from various local cultural events. … Continue reading →

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Speak Up Austin

The Bang the Table team are pleased to announce the launch of a new online community engagement portal for the City of Austin, Texas. The portal is built on Bang the Table’s EngagementHQ platform and will be used to consult the community about a wide range of issues. Heading up the list are the first … Continue reading →

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Have Your Say Waverley

Sydney’s Waverley Council, home of Bondi Beach, has launched its online community engagement portal, Have Your Say Waverley, built on Bang the Table’s EngagementHQ platform. The first cab of the rank is Council’s consultation about options for funding its services until 2022.

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East Rockingham Waste Water Treatment Plant site live

We are very pleased to announce the launch of an online community engagement portal for  the Western Australian Water Corporation to support the social impact assessment process for the East Rockingham Waste Water Treatment Plant. It’s great to see EngagementHQ being taken up by infrastructure agencies as a legitimate part of the community engagement process … Continue reading →

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