10 Tactics for Engaging the Public

Posted on September 9, 2011
By Liz Weaver

I was just emailed this great tool for community and public engagement.  Here are the 10 tactics....how many do you employ?  

 

writing blog.jpg1. Develop documents collaboratively via Wikiis. 

2. Create shared workspaces for citizens.

3.  Facilitate large scale deliberation online.

4. Use 'serious games' to generate interest, understanding and input.

5. Survey citizens.

6. Aggregate opinions expressed on social media networks. 

7. Gather and rank ideas and solutions.

8. Work with citizens to identify and prioritize problems that governments can fix.

9. Help citizens visualize geographic data. 

10. Help citizens to balance budget and revenue options. 

 

Want to learn more?  Send me your email at liz@tamarackcommunity.ca and I will send you the one page resource. 

 

Challenge yourself to use technology to further social change!

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Community Engagement, Liz Weaver


Liz Weaver

By Liz Weaver

Liz Weaver is passionate about the power and potential of communities to create impact on complex issues. She is Tamarack’s former Co-CEO and Director of the Learning Centre, where she provided strategic leadership and led key learning initiatives, including collective impact capacity-building services for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Liz is one of Tamarack’s highly regarded trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on collaborative governance, leadership, collective impact, community innovation, influencing policy change, and social media for impact.

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