I’ve been wowed recently by all the augmented reality iphone apps such as this one: and this one: It doesn’t take a genius futurist to start to come up with great ideas for community engagement based on apps like these and I’m sorely tempted to put Bang the Table’s resources into something like this. The [...]
If you’ve got some time (40 minutes), this presentation by Charles Stack at Case Western University about mobile technology is pretty interesting. While it’s not really about “community engagement” in a public policy sense, it does paint a compelling picture of the future of mobile technology and its impact on accessibility to information in useful [...]
After speaking at NSW Sphere the other week I checked the tweets made during my talk and found that a key point of disagreement was my suggestion that public forums should be anonymous. On Bang the Table all our users have the option to be anonymous. At the outset there was some debate about this. [...]
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I received a social media release today about a Community Heritage Wiki called Now and Then I have been somewhat critical of wikis as community engagement tools for mass engagement but this seems to be a superb use of the tool, a fantastic collaboration project and a really interesting site. Any community can set up [...]
Bang the Table has been hosting a site for the NSW State Plan Consultation. Yesterday in Parliament during questions the NSW Premier Hon Nathan Rees MP offered the following as part of one of his answers: These are just some of the issues raised in the State Plan consultation. Every idea and suggestion has been [...]
Crispin and I have contributed an article to the Centre for Policy Development publication on Democratic Renewal. We wrote about Identifying and Managing the Risks of (not) Engaging Online. There are a number of other excellent articles that we strongly recommend reading but I want to particularly highlight Web Tools for Beginners by Barry Saunders [...]
EIANZ Presentation – Philosophical Underpinnings of Community Engagement [slideshare id=1906282&doc=eianzpreso-090825192053-phpapp02] View more presentations from BangtheTable. A few weeks ago I was asked to make a short “drinks” presentation to the Victorian chapter of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. I’m used to giving product demonstrations and presentations on the benefits of online community [...]
I wanted to share this paper by the USA’s Public Agenda’s Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE): Promising Practices in Online Engagement by Scott Bittle, Chris Haller and Alison Kadlee. The paper offers a case study strewn analysis of online engagement endeavours around the world and has a wonderful Appendix which steps you through [...]
I’m afraid I have been neglecting my own blog and writing on other people’s. If anyone out there feels starved of my pearls of wisdom you can read The Imperative for Government to Engage Online here at the Open Forum.