Social networking and community engagement technology made easy

Community Participation Engine

Making it easy to engage with your community online in a genuinely inclusive, transparent and collaborative manner.

Designed directly for government, agencies, local councils, organisations, associations and interest groups, our Community Participation Engine is designed to make it easy to engage and collaborate with your community online.

Whether your objective is engaging more effectively with communities around policy development, soliciting ideas or feedback, or measuring sentiment around the latest issues, this product is an enabling tool that facilitates engagement and collaboration in a relevant, efficient, transparent and straight-forward manner.

What this product will help you do

  • Leverage social engagement technology to ‘crowdsource’ ideas, connect and collaborate with your community, in either a public or private space
  • Develop advocacy through participation, and overcome practical barriers of communication
  • Poll your constituents to solicit quick feedback and sentiment on your latest issues
  • Let your constituents have their say in what you do and promote the values of transparency and inclusion
  • See ‘at a glance’ which ideas and issues have the most currency and value within your constituency
  • Add user-generated commentary and content, moderated or unmoderated based on your needs
  • Segment and recommend relevant information to groups of constituents

What this product includes

  • Content Management – for posting new articles and ideas
  • Featured Content – highlight or promote key ideas or issues
  • Interactive Components – constituents can comment, rate or vote on content
  • Quick Polls – simple polling mechanism with ‘at a glance’ results, includes multiple choice and multi-answer options
  • Popularity Ranking – see which ideas, topics and categories are most popular, or have generated the most amount of feedback
  • Follow An Issue – allows users to keep track of the issues they are most passionate about
  • E-Newsletter Signup – optional plug-in to third party e-newsletter system
  • Tagging – relate issues and content to one another by using keyword tags
  • Keyword Search
  • ‘Share This’ – post links into social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter