1. Civic Innovation powers ahead - The Smart Cities Council launched the Guidance Note for Civic Innovation which defines civic innovation for the first time, and defines 5 principles for good practice. 2. Measuring up - Evaluation and measurement will continue to...
Community Engagement
School holidays. To engage or not? When it’s appropriate and why it’s usually not.
As a general rule the school holidays are best avoided when planning community engagement activities because people are generally harder to reach and disengaged from reality during holiday periods. This is especially so at Christmas when everything tends to get that...
Engagement tools: paper vs digital. Which is better?
In recent years digital engagement has really taken off with people experimenting with new technologies that make engagement activities more accessible and sustainable. As leaders in the digital engagement sector, Articulous is often called upon to help clients who...
Why everyday people turn up to community engagement activities
It was a Saturday morning. The first day in a four-month process for members of a citizen engagement process to tackle a very tricky issue.
Avoid the last minute engagement rush
The proverb – “he who hesitates is lost” could be true when it comes to last minute stakeholder engagement. If we spend too much time thinking about engaging rather than planning and delivering it strategically, we can run out of time to gain meaningful and timely...
Engaging on Transport Infrastructure
“I’ve been yelled at. Threatened. Spat at. Cried at. I’ve felt in danger. I’ve felt frightened. I’ve felt exhausted.” That’s how one colleague has described her life as an engagement manager on a major road construction job. But it’s her perfect job. “I get to...
UQ Sport Engage
Almost 1,500 people took part in UQ Sport Engage, initiated to better understand the role of UQ Sport in the community, the needs of stakeholders, and to help guide future strategic planning. UQ Sport Engage set a benchmark for future engagement to drive...
Community Engagement Toolkit for Planning
In 2017, the Minister's Guidelines and Rules under the new Planning Act 2016 came into effect. These changes prescribe a higher level of engagement and for earlier engagement to be done by local governments. They also require that the communications plan (comprising...
Stop doing these things in your engagement practice
Every day and in every industry we are continually adding ideas or processes. But so often we forget to stop doing things we've always done. When we review or audit community and stakeholder engagement within organisations, we see how passionate our engagement...