It’s Saturday, and you’ve had a long week already but you’ve got to manage a community drop in session.
The local community is angry. There’s an action group, and a particularly angry man.
Community Engagement
IAP2 Spectrum – has it Reached its Use-by Date
I remember the first time I met the Spectrum. I was at a pub one night (truthfully – ok it was an IAP2 networking event when there were less than 100 members in Australasia). And it was love at first sight.
Community Engagement Jobs – Now and in the Future
Fifteen years ago, community engagement was a fringe profession; the domain of a few passionate experts. Cynics described engagement as a fad.
How Disaster Management is Impacting Engagement
In the past decade, across Australia a significant number of major disasters; including floods, fires, cyclones and storm surges; have caused billions of dollars damage to city and towns.
Engaging Mental Health Patients in Reform – What Happens When the Right People are in the Room
Community Engagement for Mental Health – What Happens When The Right People Are In the Room?
Community Engagement Word of the Month: Evengagealist
"Evengagealist". Definition: the evangelist of the community engagement profession. You'll recognise the Evengagealist by their empassioned belief that we should engage the community about everything, all the time, and almost always by empowering the community. You...
Beyond Decision Making in Community Engagement
So you’ve done your community engagement. The public is happy. They’ve been heard, influenced and perhaps collaborated in or empowered the decision making.
Then what?
Community Engagement Definition of the Month: Engagedy
Some community engagement programs are easy to predict. They’re relatively routine.
But others suddenly turn from routine to tragedy.
Community Engagement Definition of the Month: Entourengage
If your engagement entourage outnumbers the public at an event, you have officially sent an entourengage.
We’ve all seen it. There’s 12 of us – engagement specialists, a welcome team, back up comms people, plus specialists from every technical team – and no one comes.