How to Encourage More Citizens to Participate in Community Engagement
Effective community engagement is powerful, but only a small percentage of the population participates in most planning efforts. So, what’s holding the public back?
Inform, consult, and connect with your community online
Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement. Inform decision-making, encourage diversity and inclusion, and eliminate participation barriers to drive better project outcomes.
Lead the Conversation
Your community is already engaging online and you need to be leading the conversation. Simplify the process of capturing meaningful feedback via our intuitive Engagement Platform, or Standalone Tools.
Our suite of digital tools have delivered incredible results on thousands of community engagement projects worldwide. With a highly experienced team of online engagement experts to provide training, support, and guidance on best practice, we ensure you achieve optimal project outcomes.
Engagement Pages
Our Engagement Pages act as your central portal to inform, consult and connect with your community. With an intuitive, drag and drop interface, you can easily build beautiful stand-alone websites without any coding experience.
- Having a dedicated engagement space amplifies accessibility as your community always knows where to find you.
- Our intuitive, drag and drop interface enables you to create purpose-driven content for your community, without any coding experience.
- With consistency and quality in mind, our Engagement Pages allow full brand integration.
Interactive Mapping
Our innovative, industry-leading Maps, allow you to expertly capture, visualize and analyze feedback by letting your community show you exactly where their ideas or concerns relate.
- Easily visualize critical opportunities and challenges in key areas of interest by identifying clusters of comments that are relevant to your community.
- Customize your Welcome Message, Base Map, Markers, and Interactive Layers to create an exciting experience that motivates engagement.
- Whether you would like to focus on an area as big as a city, or as small as a community garden, you control exactly what your community can see.
Ideas Wall
Our Ideas Wall is a fun way to digitally capture, organize and summarize your community’s ideas and suggestions by providing a collaborative space for to reflect on specific topics of interest.
- Allow your community to vote on Ideas or spark robust discussions with each other in a moderated, safe environment.
- Let your community openly contribute on a set of Topics, or provide pre-populated read-only Ideas to stimulate discussion and voting.
- Guide transparent, open dialogue with your community to see varying values and beliefs shine.
The Survey Upgrades You Have Been Waiting For
Capturing data from your community or stakeholders is essential. But, to capture feedback that is actionable? You need to ask the right questions. We have recently upgraded our survey design so that you can easily capture more meaningful, personalized data.
Best Practice Starts Here
Our insightful Blog features a collection of community engagement pieces to unpack innovative strategies, feature thought-provoking research, and help guide best practice.
5 Steps to Promoting Inclusive Community Engagement
The diversity of voices in our communities can shape innovative, future-focused solutions. If you really want to spark change, everyone on your team needs to understand when and how to promote inclusivity.
How to Identify the Real Problem in Your Community
We recently spoke to Felicity Farmer about the complexity of community issues and how to identify the real problem at the heart of many moving parts.
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