For public agencies across the country, the pandemic required teams to quickly adapt to a new way of interacting with their community. Organizations moved processes from in-person to digital formats...
Posted by | December 22, 2017
Today, while much has changed, some hasn't. Democracy, at its best, conveys the voice of the people to the institutions built to serve the people. But the tools, channels, and...
Posted by | September 28, 2017
We’re keeping this beta so we can focus our effort and attention on a handful of users interested in developing a dashboard for their stakeholders — such as the mayor, council, or...
Posted by | September 21, 2017
Though we were only in Anaheim for 3 days, and got a cumulative 12 hours of sleep, we met a ton of great people and were reminded of why PublicInput’s...
Posted by | September 20, 2017
We had provided the public with clean, low-friction input channels—a mobile friendly online survey, targeted social media posts, and live meeting voting. But somehow, residents felt compelled to email support@publicinput.comwith...
Posted by | September 13, 2017
Whether town hall meetings, petitions, hand-written letters, social media, online forums, and the dreaded paper form — conveying information from citizens to leaders is no simple task.At PublicInput.com, our focus...
Posted by | August 23, 2017
We hear the question almost weekly from clients doing public outreach on on planning initiatives and public projects:“How do I know when I’ve heard from enough people?”For many years, the...
Posted by | July 31, 2017
They’d successfully pulled off something we had only imagined a month earlier — improving ‘meeting mode’ to include the ability to live broadcast public meetings and collect responses and questions from online viewers....
Posted by | July 7, 2017
A few months ago, I got a call from a client about a bright student who was looking for an internship in the civic tech space. “Kevin is a high...
Posted by | June 29, 2017
So you’ve gone above and beyond to promote your public meetings, you’ve targeted neighborhoods on Facebook, and you’ve leveraged our meeting tools to foster productive dialog.But are you sure you’ve...
