Challenges and Rewards of Advisory Group in Large Geography

How can we design and run Advisory Groups to ensure they reflect differences across various geographic levels and interests, and that participants are actively and meaningfully connected and engaged?

Join us on December 3, 2012 (11:00-12:00 PST) for a free 60 minute webinar as our panel of experts discusses the use of advisory groups to engage stakeholders across large geographic areas. The webinar will include case studies from the field, a discussion/Q&A session, and will enable you to have live access to your peers and share your experiences with the broader Community of Practice. Read More »

Creating Spaces for Productive Social Discussions

Our increasingly complicated world requires new ways of thinking to solve major social and environment problems, such as climate change and others. The paradigm of competition is giving way to one of collaboration, characterized by respectful listening, productive dialogue, collective decision making and collaborative action—in short, public participation (P2). Read More »

Advancing Online Public Consultation Using PlaceSpeak

For our third Community of Practice webinar, we are excited to host Colleen Nystedt (Hardwick), Founder and CEO of PlaceSpeak, an online public consultation platform.

Join us on September 20, 2012 for a presentation about PlaceSpeak – an online, location-based public consultation platform that seeks to transform the way people interact with “location based topics”.

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Recap of Our Online Engagement Webinar

Last week we hosted our second Community of Practice webinar, Introduction to Online Engagement Tools and Techniques. We look forward to continuing the series with more in-depth presentations on select topics in (offline and online) public engagement but in the meantime, check out the recording of the webinar.  Read More »

Free Webinar: Online Engagement Tools and Techniques

As part of our professional development webinar series, we are holding a session on Online Engagement Tools and Techniques. This second webinar in our series will provide a high-level overview of the social media landscape and the top trends in social media use for local government. We’ll also go over the tools and techniques for effective management of social media and answer participant questions during the Q&A session. Read More »

Free Webinar: Understanding and Managing Fear, Anger and Emotion in Public Participation

Delaney and Associates Inc. is pleased to present this 60-minute interactive webinar hosted by John Godec. John is president of Godec, Randall & Associates Inc., which offers consulting and training services for business and government in high stakes communication, consensus, crisis, conflict resolution and public involvement. He is an International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), one of the original developers of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Certificate training course, a developer of the IAP2 Emotion, Outrage and Public Participation course with Dr. Peter Sandman, and a U.S. Board Director for IAP2. Read More »