Matt is a founding partner and Director of Bang the Table. He has worked with dozens of organisations to deliver their online consultations, has a broad remit across the business and is primarily responsible for supporting our international partners.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/ACCOUNT MANAGER Bang the Table is a fast growing business offering online community engagement services to clients in both Government and Private Sectors. We are the market leaders in Australia and have worked with over 140 clients. We are seeking an Business Development/Account Manager to play a leading role in the future growth of [...]
I found this video by the Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs today and wanted to share it. It’s full of great practical advice. TRANSCRIPT: Web accessibility – What does it all mean? Misconception: Web accessibility is about disability. No, Web accessibility is about universality. It’s about making something that can [...]
There are lots of different options for engaging communities online, ranging from Facebook and Twitter, or more recently Pinterest, to one of a number of proprietary platforms, like our own EngagementHQ, or even platforms built in-house. There are just as many different forms of engagement. I want to focus here on those situations where there [...]
Bang the Table is moving to the UK…. and we need your help to build and lead our team. Bang the Table has been operating successfully in Australia and New Zealand for more than four years with operations commencing in Canada a couple of years ago. It is fair to say that we are the [...]
I’ve just been reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the state of Planning in NSW. The article quotes a submission to the Independent Review Panel on planning by the Planning Institute of Australia which laments the culture of fear in the industry which, they seem to suggest, is killing creativity and innovation [...]
While social media usage and applications will continue to evolve over the coming months and years, three things are certain: It’s only going to get bigger. No business can afford to ignore it. And, you won’t fool the children of the revolution. What an astonishing quote to pull from a statistics document. This came from [...]
I found this video on YouTube via Twitter and thought it was a useful insight into the importance of Online Community Engagement options being provided to communities. I don’t know Tim personally but he makes a lot of sense!
These are my slides for the LG Web Network Conference which was held in Sydney yesterday. You can hear my talk at: http://audio.lgwebnetwork.org/MattCrozier.mp3 but be warned it is a 50 minute presentation – not for the faint hearted or easily bored! Does Online Community Engagement Work for Local Government View more presentations from Bang the [...]
We have been doing some interesting youth engagement work with a few clients recently. Andrew Crowley of Capacity Consulting has put together this brief of a case study on this initiative by Kingston City Council in Victoria. Thanks to Andrew for sharing. A recent initiative of Kingston City Council has been attracting attention from young [...]
This article was sent to me by Stuart Reeve of Micromex Research. It’s a great piece of work which demonstrates that, though the community habitually identify the key tasks of local government as rates roads and rubbish, performance of these services is not the key factor in satisfaction with local authority performance. Instead the extent [...]