Let’s make your community engagement dreams come true in 2025 ?
Go Vocal (formerly CitizenLab)
A digital engagement platform to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive.
Hi?there,
The new year is the perfect time to take a fresh look at your community engagement work, gather some new inspiration, and make a strong plan for 2025. ?
To make sure you get off on the right foot, we’re sharing our 10 best practices for boosting participation below, and advice from 2 local governments who have benefitted from developing powerful brands for their community engagement. ?
Plus: Check out our latest podcast episode, where we hear how residents have partnered with their city to shape budget priorities in St Louis. ?
Happy reading!
The Go Vocal Team
Supercharge your community engagement with these strategies
Online engagement tools enable you to reach a vast number of community members in an instant. But not everyone is so simple to reach.
Meet four cities using low- and no-tech engagement methods like WhatsApp, SMS, in-person visits, and the good old telephone to ensure the underheard voices in their community get a chance to have their say – read more in our latest article.
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PODCAST: Partnering with residents on budget priorities in St Louis
The prospect of inviting residents to set your budget priorities might invoke images of wading through a bunch of well-meaning but ultimately impractical suggestions.
The City of St. Louis was delighted to find the exact opposite when they asked locals how they would like to spend a recent settlement fund, with 6 budget priorities chosen by residents now being written into legislation.
On our latest podcast, hear how the city designed this public participation process, and some of the more surprising priorities selected by St Louis inhabitants.
Crafting a strong brand for your community engagement project
The impact of communications work can sometimes be hard to quantify – and if you’re tight on budget, you might be wondering how to justify the cost.
Here we meet 2 local governments whose powerful communications have paid dividends for their community engagement work.
Let's discuss your community engagement projects!