How Agile Methodologies Can Transform Community Engagement
Participatory decision-making can be complex to navigate. Discover how agile engagement methodologies can help you find the right balance.
Community Engagement Blog
Our insightful Blog features a collection of community engagement pieces to unpack innovative strategies, feature thought-provoking research, and help guide best practice.
How Agile Methodologies Can Transform Community Engagement
Participatory decision-making can be complex to navigate. Discover how agile engagement methodologies can help you find the right balance.
How to Design Your Community Engagement Landing Page
Having a well-designed, on-brand engagement page is important. With the right design elements in place, it can become an informative and compelling space for your community.
31 Ways To Avoid Survey Fatigue in Your Community
If your community is constantly asked for feedback and starts to suffer from survey fatigue, response rates and the quality of insights can deteriorate. Here’s 31 ways to help combat survey fatigue.
Make the Most of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal with Civic Engagement
To optimize your project delivery you need to include mechanisms for sharing trusted information with proactive civic engagement.
Top 5 Gifts for Your Community Engagement Team
Do you work in community engagement? Tick. Do you enjoy gifts? Tick (who doesn’t). Well, to be honest, that’s all you need to get some joy from this festive round-up of practical gifts.
How To Create Climate Change Solutions With Your Community
We need rapid innovation and intensive collaboration to steer the ship towards decarbonization. Here are three ways you can activate your community and create climate solutions together.
Capturing Conversations with Auckland Council and FranklyAI
The ability to understand and cater to multiple languages and multiple cultural nuances is all but a dream for many communication professionals. You want to
Easily Create, Share, and Embed Your Digital Engagement Tools
Easily create our online surveys, forums, and participatory budgets as standalone tools and seamlessly integrate them into your community engagement platform.
2022 Community Engagement Trends
Moving into 2022, we predict that people are going to look at their lives with fresh eyes. So what does this mean for community engagement?
Should We Use Compensation to Increase Public Participation?
The idea of using compensation to enhance public participation is gaining momentum. We have reached out to a range of community engagement experts to discuss their thoughts.
Thanksgiving: A time to create memorable stakeholder connections
Thanksgiving season. Turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pies, and football. It’s a time to reflect on what we have, cherish time with the ones we love, and connect with those around us.
How to Promote Your Online Community Engagement Site
Nailing promotion is a number one priority in any community engagement initiative. After all, who is going to give you feedback if no one knows what you’re working on?
How to Build Trust Through Community Engagement
Governments and institutions need people to trust that they will make good decisions. Without trust, they don’t have the power to make productive changes for the community. Here are three ways you can build trust through community engagement.
Enhanced Survey Personalization for Increased Community Engagement
Capturing data from your community or stakeholders is essential. But, to capture feedback that is actionable and substantial, you need to ask the right questions.
The Future of Community Engagement
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.
Social Pinpoint Joins Forces with Hello Lamp Post
We have come together through a strategic partnership to bring our clients and industry network the world’s most innovative community engagement experience.
MySite Appoints New Managing Director to Lead Global Growth
Site Group proudly welcomes James Moore as Managing Director of Social Pinpoint and Consultation Manager to lead the firm’s rapid global expansion and operational success.
Engage Your Community in Developing Plans for Use of American Rescue Plan Funds
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.
Social Pinpoint featured by 13News Now (WVEC) in Norfolk, Virginia
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.
Civic Engagement in 2021: The Power of Digital Surveys
Surveys allow community engagement professionals to obtain rich data on a wide variety of topics. We made it a priority to develop our Survey Tool further to provide more advanced functionalities.
2021 Community Engagement Trends
As we await a new and hopefully refreshing year, there is no better time to reflect and learn from the adaptations we have been forced to make throughout 2020.
New Feature: Custom Profanity Filter
Social Pinpoint creates a safe and engaging place that stakeholders can contribute their feedback on projects and initiatives that affect them, especially with the introduction of our custom profanity filter.
Engaging First Nation Communities
As professionals in public participation, you’re aware of the intricacies involved with making sure your communities are heard and all voices have the opportunity to participate.
Identifying Stakeholder Groups
The first step in any engagement consultation is to identify your stakeholders. The best way to do this is to reach out to various groups that will have input on who these stakeholders should be.
Understanding How Lack of Trust in Government Affects Community Engagement
There will not only be opportunities for us to learn more about the communities but, also where there might be some larger issues at hand that might prevent you from getting meaningful feedback and interactions.
