There are workshops that conjure up images of a dreary room full of disinterested people, negative attitudes, poor outcomes and bad coffee. I’m going tell you how to avoid running one of these workshops, ever again.
Community Engagement
New York, Where a City’s Identity Lies in its Community
New York is intricate, alive, passionate, and evolving. What became clearer to me on this journey was how the decisions of the community can have long-lasting and positive effects on a city’s identity.
A Community Project gone right!
It draws people in without any visible signage or rules, it somehow intuitively speaks to people about how to participate.
Public Meetings – the good, the bad and the ugly
Public meetings. Ugghhhh. We often try to avoid them, but to be perfectly honest, I’ve also seen them work really well.
Will Gamification work for your Project? – Reduce your Juice Revisited
It wasn’t just about engaging people, but about changing behaviour, so the games were designed to teach people positive actions and show them the gamified result with the aim of then replicating the real life behaviour
Be prepared: beating a natural disaster in Australia
In our work it is clear that the disaster story is switching focus from recovery to preparation. When it comes to the behaviour of individuals, being prepared also saves lives. From a communication perspective it has its challenges.
Why Engage? Because we’re Human.
In an age where data is king, and every transaction and enquiry is trackable, some will ask “why engage?”.
Why spend the time? Why take the added expense?
Summer is a Great Time to Take Stock
Here are a few tips I have learnt along the way to make the most of the quieter summer period
When you are one of the Dominant Voices can you really understand what it’s like to not be?
What struck me was that given that all of the commenters were men, did they really understand what it was like for a female jockey in the Australian racing industry and did they even ask?