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Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends

Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

Before we look forward and reveal our predictions for the top 2024 trends in online community engagement, let’s look back. We saw hybrid engagement come of age, we saw really clear stages in engagement, and we even saw the rise of AI. Staged Engagement When we say staged, we don’t mean fake news.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement Engagement Parks And Recreation Budgeting

City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”

Budgeting

Budgeting Parks And Recreation Engagement Voting

Univ. of Pittsburgh Athletics use AWS to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey

AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

In 1914, they fielded a women’s varsity basketball team, six years before women had the right to vote. “We Today, with more than 800,000 resolved fan identities—on target for 1 million by the end of 2024—the department has a powerful tool for engaging and selling across the entire fan journey.

Education

Education Engagement Public Sector Fundraising

Webinars

Maximizing Municipal Budgets: Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners

Overcoming Operational Challenges in Parks & Recreation

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

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Each Hub was given a particular theme, such as “strategic operations and innovation,” “accountability and compliance” or “community engagement and experience,” to name a few.

City Manager

City Manager Leadership Budgeting Voting

Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!

zencity

MAY 3, 2023

We’ve welcomed numerous new partner communities across the world, rolled out cutting-edge new features, including the first-ever use case of ChatGPT in local government , and re-launched as the best full-service community engagement platform available for government today.

Press Release

Press Release Community Engagement Local Government Voting

Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

"Some recommended updates to the strategic plan include revising prioritized strategic goal ranking, adding outcome statements for strategic goals, and integration of priority-based budgeting references." Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, is leading the way in priority based business planning and budgeting.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Budgeting Voting Communications

Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Communications Campaign

How to Capture the Benefits of Participatory Budgeting

Social Pinpoint

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that lets community members voice how they would like public money to be spent. However, it’s important that the right technology and processes are in place to maximize the full value of the participatory budgeting process. Participatory budgeting can be conducted offline or online.

Budgeting

Budgeting Voting Community Engagement Engagement

Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

A local government therefore must exercise oversight of the budgets for construction and operation of the housing project to ensure that the public subsidy is going to LMI persons and not toward other activities of the third party. 160D-1311 and authorized counties to engage in community development and act as housing authorities.

Local Government

Local Government Housing Government Laws

The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

The industry has a reputation of engaging in aggressive advocacy and political influencing whenever a threat to the existing third-party selection business model arises. This means all the ingredients are there for housing interest groups to engage in “deny and strongly advocate” tactics effectively enough to win the day.

Advocacy

Advocacy Housing Regulations Legislation

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Engagement Sustainability Security

The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

In order to acknowledge the relevance of public opinion, civic engagement or citizen engagement are increasingly being introduced at the democratic level to promote transparency and openness. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws.

Voting

Voting Engagement Budgeting Political Process

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. OWS reached citizens in general, but also engaged the entire world in a domestic matter. The new media on which these early rallies were organized are significant because of the people that became engaged.

Social Media

Social Media Sustainability Communications Grassroots

Public Administration Today

Look Back at 2023 Online Community Engagement Trends

City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

Webinars

Trending Sources

Univ. of Pittsburgh Athletics use AWS to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey

Webinars

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

Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!

Strathcona County Updating Priority-Based Strategic Plan

Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

How to Capture the Benefits of Participatory Budgeting

Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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