Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 23, 2025

In todays landscape, having an online community engagement platform is essential to connect with your residents, gather feedback, and involve members in decision-making. However, simply having a community engagement platform isnt enough. Its never wise to assume they will know their way around each tool.

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

Social media has significantly changed the communication landscape, bringing government leaders closer to the people they serve and building trust between them. Almost overnight, Threads , the new social network competitor to Twitter launched by Meta and Instagram, has reached a critical mass of users.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2023

His dad is managing to make ends meet, but there isn’t a lot of money left over for things like vacations or extra-curricular activities. Values community engagement and local events. Media Consumption Relies on traditional media like newspapers and local community bulletins.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Social media has the power to positively impact civic engagement. It is an opportunity for local governments to increase engagement, to get more equitable community feedback and reach more residents, and to help build trust with the community by more easily meeting them where they are.

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 8, 2024

My official title is Marketing & Events Coordinator, but I am also the branch manager for our Germantown Hills branch. Calendars were available at each branch and through some of the library’s community partners, including nursing homes and daycare centers. They managed to hand out nearly all their copies. “We

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Present engagement activities primarily involve surveys conducted by various agencies, while face-to-face grassroots engagement occurs at the local level through offices, established meeting places, or social media where data management and analysis are challenging.

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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. After the GoZone public engagement period closed, our team went into full-on reporting and metrics mode.

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Social Pinpoint

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. DCTA’s ambitious public involvement project required a flexible suite of online community engagement tools to easily gather informed feedback from residents. Keep your public engagement “hub” up to date.

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Social Pinpoint

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s essential that we build consensus throughout the community engagement process, especially when the project is new or controversial. It’s becoming clear that community and stakeholder engagement can no longer be considered as an add-on to a decision-making process.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

But Earp, city manager for Hutto, Texas, and a recipient of this year’s American City & County Exemplary Public Service award , believes the winding road to his current role is evidence that he’s where he’s supposed to be. Earp attends a Block Party Bash in Hutto, where he’s served as city manager since 2022.

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zencity

JANUARY 3, 2022

California City Managers Conference. But more than that, this conference is a pivotal event that brings together city managers from across the State. This year’s focus is on the city manager experience, and the design of the event allows for a lot of networking and is perfect for the exchange of ideas. California, here we come!

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the context of community engagement, we’re sometimes asked how to deal with hostile communities. As with so many things, prevention is better than cure: it’s unlikely that the community was hostile before the issue was imposed on them. Did they think you were kidding?

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A Library Writer's Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

We also encourage panel submissions in which speakers will share different takes on the same topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2025

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library At the Library Marketing and Communications Conference this past November, I watched as Jody Lazar , Director of Community Engagement at Winter Park Library in Florida made half a dozen mouths drop to the floor.

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