Stories Tool
Help your community better understand, empathize, and relate to others and your project.
Stories can be interactive and can include images or media to support context.
- Include rich media in the introduction and thank you message
- Allow other participants to comment on stories
- Ability for participants to agree/disagree on other comments
- Participants can turn off commenting on their story if they choose
- Allow unverified participation
- Enable notifications to admin when a new story is posted
- 24/7 moderation
Why Community Engagement?
Why are you passionate about Community Engagement? Our EngagementIQ team discuss public participation, community consultation and what drives their work with organizations around the world. Please join in and tell us why engagement is important to you and your community.
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Jonathan Bradley | Practice Lead, Bang the Table, United Kingdom
Passion! I’m passionate about community engagement because we can’t change things at the macro level. Change happens in your local neighbourhood, town or city. No government is truly going to regulate Twitter and Facebook and undo the damage they have done to the public sphere and democracy. However, every time a council or other public body does a good online consultation it restores faith in democracy and public participation, it reignites participative democracy. It is at this level that I can make a difference, where change can happen.
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Stéphanie Beauregard | Practice Lead, Bang the Table, North America/Quebec
Ma passion pour l’engagement des communauté réside d’abord dans mon désir de voir de plus en plus de gens participer à la vie démocratique de leurs gouvernements, à tous les niveaux. Que la Ville de Montréal, QC ou la ville de Kingston, ON aient un espace privilégié depuis plus de 5 ans pour permettre à leurs citoyens de partager leurs idées et leurs opinions est un accomplissement génial!
Plus spécifiquement en lien avec mon travail quotidien comme Practice Lead, je suis passionnée par les gens et leur capacité d’apprendre et de s’améliorer. Mon objectif est de les amener plus loin... Continue reading
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Anthea Robinson-Shaw | Practice Lead, Bang the Table, North America
Authentic community engagement I feel, is the cornerstone of any democratic, healthy civil society. This is why I am really passionate about being able to help organizations give their citizens a voice to contribute meaningfully on issues that impact their lives in transparent, planned and accessible way.
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Elliot Sim | Practice Lead, Bang the Table, New Zealand
I have had over 10 years’ experience in communications, journalism and community engagement within various organisations and councils in New Zealand. I thrive on finding creative and effective solutions to complex engagement projects.
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Dan Popping | Practice Lead, Bang the Table, Australia
I have worked in the community engagement sector for over 20 year, and most recently in State and Local Government. I have a pretty good grasp and experience in some of the challenges orgaisations are likely to face in supporting and delivering engagement projects (both internally and externally.) I really enjoy helping at a strategic level and to improve the way organisations engage with their communities and to give a voice to people to improve their local city or community.
