When building something new that will affect lots of people for decades to come, it pays to ask people about what they want. It also pays to pay those people to tell you. Rochester, a city of 100,000 located 77 miles southeast of Minneapolis and home to the Mayo Clinic, is facing growing pains. Downtown …
Cities Are Seeking Community Engagement, and Are Willing to Pay For It Read More »
Almost every facet of society as we know it has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing planners to adapt their stakeholder engagement strategies in order to fulfil positive outcomes for communities. With cities shut down to avoid the spread of COVID-19, the use of digital participation tools were quickly adopted to keep the conversations …
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way Local and State Governments informed, engaged and collaborated with their communities, rapidly shifting their public participation strategies to online. A process that traditionally brings communities together in-person, meant the once ‘new age’ way of engagement was accelerated to allow communities to come together online through surveys, video town hall …
Social Pinpoint’s Interactive Map is being used by The City of Norfolk in Virginia, USA, in the development of their Multimodal Transportation Master Plan to help define the direction of the City’s transportation system that will take place over the coming years. A core feature of Social Pinpoint, the Interactive Map, has been used for …
Social Pinpoint featured by 13News Now (WVEC) in Norfolk, Virginia Read More »
On a detailed interactive map, it can be hard to keep stakeholders focused on the key study area for the project. Social Pinpoint’s new auto-shading functionality will allow you to easily shade the area outside of layers on the map. See it in action! Steps… Upload or draw your boundary into the Map Editor Under …
Data is everything in community engagement, but time and resources are always a challenge when analyzing feedback. Social Pinpoint’s Auto-Tagging feature allows you to quickly identify and apply tags to responses without needing to manually review and tag each piece of feedback. Save Time Using the power of machine learning, Social Pinpoint will analyze stakeholder …
On May 25th, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation will replace the current European Data Protection Directive which only 36% of marketers have heard about. This new regulation is intended to enhance and unify the efforts currently in place to protect personal data. The GDPR applies to every organization that processes, transmits and stores …
Empowering Community Engagement with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation Read More »
We are proud to announce we are this year’s Best Government Solution winner! We couldn’t have done it without the great support of everyone in the Social Pinpoint community. Everyday, our customers bring forward great ideas, inspiration and comments about how we can improve our products to help make collaboration easier and more effective. The …
2017 NEWi Awards Winner – Best Government Solution Read More »
Social Pinpoint will be attending this years IAP2 North American Conference. The events of the past twelve months have left many people in the public participation community wondering, “What is the future of the practice?” With the changes we’re seeing in the world today, what role does P2 play? Does it have any place at all?” These …
Since the very beginning Social Pinpoint has seen strong growth; starting in Australia, then into Canada, United States, New Zealand and other parts of the world. Despite having completed hundreds of projects, hundreds of thousands of users and millions of comment events – we still get the feeling that things are only just getting started! People …
