Free Resources
EngagementHQ has been used to support over 400 projects by more than 130 organisations to deal with the widest possible variety of issues.
We have taken the lessons from this experience and distilled it all down into a few simple tools to help make your consultation more successful. You’ll find links to our booklet, 100 Ideas to Engage your Community Online, to many of our presentations, to a host of tips sheets and good practice guides, and to a few of our more useful “practice” blog posts.
100 Ideas to Engage your Community Online
Presentations
You’ll also find a complete list of our presentations about online community engagement available to download here.
Thinking about Going Online
- Why Engage Online - A tips sheet with a few good arguments for your business case.
- Online Community Engagement Spectrum - A matrix of online tools matched against your stakeholder engagement promise.
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Engagement - One of our all time most popular blog posts
- Our 24/7 Independent Moderation Process
- Frequently Asked Questions about EngagementHQ - Just what it says
- Cultivate your Community Panel - How EngagementHQ can help you bring the best out of your Community Advisory Panels
- (Coming Soon) Anonymity and Online Engagement – A Fact Sheet about the issues and benefits of anonymity in online forums
Getting Started with EngagementHQ
- Golden Rules of Online Community Engagement - A tips sheet outlining ten of the most important things you should be thinking about when engaging online.
- Creating an Engaging Online Consultation Space – 10 Top tips for creating an engaging online consultation space for your community.
Now You’re Up and Running
- Overcoming Internet Access Issues – A tips sheet with 10 great ideas to help make it as easy as possible for more of your community to get involved.
- Ideas to help promote your online consultation
- Interacting with your community - A blog post about the alternative strategies for involving your organisation in the forum space.
- Engaging young people online - One of our more popular blog posts.
Other Useful Bits and Pieces
- Blog Post – Is Facebook a Community Engagement Tool
- Blog Post – Twitter Guidelines
