AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With the development of 5G and an ever-growing number of cloud-connected devices, data is becoming available at an unprecedented rate. Public safety agencies must understand and address the specific needs of their constituents among a diverse group of communities. Read on for key takeaways from the webinar and watch on-demand here.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 10, 2024

Yet, with the ongoing development and increased integration of AI into our daily lives, a crucial question arises: Will AI replace community engagement? Community engagement has played a crucial role in being responsible for societal progress, fostering connections, shared visioning, and better placemaking.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This year’s winners of the Go Further, Faster award include: Crisis Text Line is developing applications based on large language models (LLMs), to enhance highly-nuanced crisis conversations at a level of depth and speed not attainable in the past, ultimately decreasing time to intervention for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.

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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. 2023 was the year that saw some very clear trends, especially in the digital community space. We saw hybrid engagement come of age, we saw really clear stages in engagement, and we even saw the rise of AI.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 30, 2024

This experience allows us to take a pulse of engagement strategies and outcomes across a variety of fields and reflect on emerging online community engagement trends for 2024. These spaces can be built out to discuss and help local governments manage the process in an agreeable timeline, collaboratively with their communities.

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Social Pinpoint

AUGUST 24, 2023

With the rise of technology, online community engagement has become a powerful tool for public participation. But how can we foster community engagement among the younger generation? Empowering the youth with online community engagement. However, where should you begin? However, where should you begin?

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 11, 2023

An effective community engagement strategy helps local governments to make more informed decisions. Not only does involving the public in decision-making help to create a shared vision for the community. We’ve uncovered 10 effective community engagement tips to help you elevate your strategy today.

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Social Pinpoint

JUNE 18, 2023

Community engagement doesn’t have to be the same-same, basic and formal experience. In fact, incorporating interactive and enjoyable activities into your community engagement efforts can transform them into something truly memorable. Wildlife Management Have you spotted a macropod lately?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These AI technologies promise to refine how governments manage data, interact with citizens, and execute their responsibilities. Training and development – Invest in training for your workforce to become adept at leveraging these AI tools, ensuring a smooth transition into a more tech-empowered mode of operation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

These organizations play a pivotal role in promoting environmental sustainability through advocacy, conservation projects, community engagement, and research. Additionally, these organizations contribute to environmental sustainability through research and innovation, providing data and developing new solutions.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

So, join us as we explore five inspiring placemaking project examples that empower community engagement. These five initiatives benefit local residents’ specific needs and interests and help beautify our neighbourhoods for increased tourism for future visitors and residing community members for years to come.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Innovation is essential in developing solutions that address global sustainability challenges. Fostering innovation means creating the right environment with supporting processes that enable university researchers, students, and external partners to engage effectively. News & World Report.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That means they need ample resources and training to ensure they’re fully equipped to keep their communities safe when disasters unfold. Let’s explore how firefighters can use risk management strategies to stay prepared and build trust with the folks they’re responsible for protecting. Why does trust matter?

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Online community engagement has truly transformed how we connect, communicate, and access information. In this article, we will explore how to combat these challenges by sharing five ways to empower online community engagement in older adults. How Should We Define ‘Older Adults’ in Our Community?

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The City Fix

MAY 11, 2021

The circular economy turns linear supply chains into loops so that nothing is wasted. Ideally, there is no more end of the line like a landfill. Practitioners look at all the options across supply chains to use as few resources. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Center for Community Progress

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Land banks across the United States are managing more and more vacant properties—86 percent of which are vacant lots. Community-Engaged Stewardship : Due to widespread vacant properties in Flint, there are more properties in GCLBA’s inventory than what their crews can maintain.

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Social Pinpoint

JULY 10, 2023

Private community engagement projects empower organizations to foster meaningful connections, facilitate focused discussions, and build stronger relationships with specific groups within their community. Sometimes, you may not want every single community member to provide input.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 27, 2023

Register here to join Meet our presenters Mansoor Malik - Teams Engineering Experienced Principal Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. This session is tailored especially to our GCC customers in Federal Civilian, State and Local Government.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JUNE 16, 2021

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass Green is currently Project Manager for New Kensington CDC, HACE and Impact Services' DOJ-Community-Based Crime Reduction Grant (CBCR) in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JUNE 16, 2021

This conversation took place as part of PACDC's Forward Equitable Development Conference. Cass Green is currently Project Manager for New Kensington CDC, HACE and Impact Services' DOJ-Community-Based Crime Reduction Grant (CBCR) in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods. Episode Transcript Available Here: [link].

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 12, 2023

A system on a mission To fund local efforts to help those affected by homelessness, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants roughly $3 billion annually to local projects combating homelessness. HUD distributes this funding to communities through collective representative bodies known as Continuums of Care (CoCs).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

A new APN Customer Engagement Program customer relationship management integration path Based on our partners’ feedback on the APN Customer Engagements Program (ACE) , we launched a new ACE customer relationship management (CRM) integration path: the AWS Partner CRM Connector.

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

As a supervisor, it can be stressful and awkward to manage a “bad apple.” Victoria Bowens (Director, Strategic and Community Engagement, Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness, U.S. Negative, unproductive or unengaged team members don’t carry their weight and will affect the group’s morale and effectiveness.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gloria Maria Cartagena Hart aka "Smooches", Commercial Corridor Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) discusses healing through trauma with Leon and De'Wayne and why she goes by "Smooches."

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Decisions That Matter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Together, her team discovers new ways to solve user problems, builds innovative solutions, and develops creative strategies to drive engagement with the government and supplier communities served by Procurated. Before joining Procurated, Becca led product management at Xometry, a custom manufacturing marketplace.

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GovLoop

JULY 1, 2024

Summer can be tricky when it comes to carving out time for professional development. We’ve got our July plans in place for professional development and once you register, if you can’t make it the day of, you will receive a recording to watch when you have time. Good news – there is! Favorite

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. DCTA needed a flexible suite of community engagement tools to carry this off in a short amount of time. The first installment will focus on effectively planning a public involvement initiative.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn how to create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. This final instalment will focus on the best tips to develop and share your public transportation engagement report. A common mistake in community engagement reporting is closing the feedback loop to build public trust.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It has 25 sections and looks to be an incredible resource: Affordable Housing (PDF) Brownfield Redevelopment (PDF) Community Engagement Tools (PDF) Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture (PDF) Complete Streets (PDF) Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (PDF) Design for Aging in Place (PDF) Green Stormwater Infrastructure (PDF) Green Waste (..)

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gloria Maria Cartagena Hart aka "Smooches", Commercial Corridor Manager at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) discusses healing through trauma with Leon and De'Wayne and why she goes by "Smooches."

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

of agencies, which is the challenge of managing late payments. This efficiency allows government staff to focus on more strategic tasks, such as policy development and community engagement. Specifically, delinquent payments are one of the most significant issues, affecting 28.4%

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Decisions That Matter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Together, her team discovers new ways to solve user problems, builds innovative solutions, and develops creative strategies to drive engagement with the government and supplier communities served by Procurated. Before joining Procurated, Becca led product management at Xometry, a custom manufacturing marketplace.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

NRPA’s Resilient Park Access grant program supports the advancement of community-driven, systems-level strategies for equitable park access that improve the environmental resilience and health of communities.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. Majeedah, a veteran community organizer, explains how she got her start in the early 2000s and her resident driven approach to community organizing.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On this episode of “Iron Sharpens Iron” De’Wayne and Leon are joined by Majeedah Rashid, the Chief Operating Officer at Nicetown Community Development Corporation. Majeedah, a veteran community organizer, explains how she got her start in the early 2000s and her resident driven approach to community organizing.

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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.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A systematic, consistent, national-level dataset on India’s water bodies that could inform efforts to improve water management and increase resilience has been long awaited. The National Water Body Census 2023 is a crucial milestone in creating such a database. Undertaken.

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