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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

Given the significant political shifts in the UK, USA, and Europe, alongside the fallout from the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote in Australia over the past year, we believe that diversity in community engagement will increasingly become a key focus for achieving equitable outcomes. So why is it a trend in community engagement?

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023

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. – Article V – Makeup of the Executive Board in the absence of Council, what representation was the optimal makeup and who votes for them. (I I voted for the original Forward Together suggestion) – Article VI – Does Council maintain policy-making power or are they advisory? Longer report: [link] Action items.

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Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends

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2023 was the year that saw some very clear trends, especially in the digital community space. Below, we’ve listed the five trends we have mapped as the top 2023 online community engagement trends. Before we look forward and reveal our predictions for the top 2024 trends in online community engagement, let’s look back.

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA Annual 2023

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Previous reports from me: June 2020 , January 2021 (did not write a report), July 2021 , January 2022 , June 2022 (did not go to ALA ), January 2023 I filled in for outgoing Councilor Marti Fisk who moved, and was elected to a three-year term starting in 2020. not vendors, corporate members, free attendees) All votes passed.

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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Adding ‘value in the proposition’ When it comes to working with the public and budgeting, Earp finds that “cost is always an issue in the absence of value.” Earp speaks at a Fourth of July event in Hutto in 2023.

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The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

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One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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A 21st-Century Education in Ohio Prisons

GovLoop

The Future Is Bright Pandemic-era funding helped set up the system, Sanders explained, but the program also got a vote of confidence in Ohio’s most recent biennium budget, when state legislators approved funds to continue providing devices.