Rebecca Sutherns: The pros and cons of Hybrid, In-Person and Online Meetings
Inside P2
In-person, online or hybrid? Which type of public meeting is the right fit for your public participation initiative? Dr. Rebecca Sutherns is an expert facilitator, someone who can bring a group of people together, find their interests, get them thinking creatively, and draw out their views and preferences on issues under consideration. And she has thoughts on when to use in-person, online and hybrid meetings and how to plan for and run them effectively. Join Joseph Thornley, Allison Zupan and Elizabeth Thornley as we go Inside P2 with Rebecca Sutherns. ------------ More information on...
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Catherine Rockandel, President of IAP2 Canada
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Catherine Rockandel has played a leading role in guiding IAP2 Canada over the past six years, first as a regional chapter leader, then as as Vice President of the national organization and, for the past three years, as President of IAP2 Canada. She sat down recently with Joseph Thornley to talk about her time as the head of IAP2, leading through Covid, how the practice of public participation (p2) has evolved, and how p2 practitioners benefit from participating in IAP2 Canada. Following the conversation, Joe is joined by co-hosts Allison Zupan and Elizabeth Thornley, who discuss the aspects of...
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A New Season of Inside P2
Inside P2
Welcome to the new season of the Inside P2 podcast, the podcast for Public Engagement Professionals. This season, we're going to focus on the changes in public engagement since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. We'll be asking what has changed in public participation since COVID and before. How have the public's expectations shifted? How is AI affecting the practice of P2? What about hybrid P2? What other tools, strategies and practices are proving useful? To get the answers to these and other relevant questions, we'll be interviewing leading practitioners and thought leaders in public...
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Inside PR 553: The Future of the PR Industry
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On this episode 553 of Inside PR, Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman, and Joe Thornley do a special recording for the Earned Media Mastery Summit with Agility PR Solutions. They discuss the future of the PR industry—exciting things to come, as well as the challenges young professionals will face.
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The Plumbing of the Internet
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On this bi-weekly episode of Inside PR, Joe Thornley, Martin Waxman, and Gini Dietrich discuss the plumbing of the internet, from Feedburner and its replacements to how marketing automation works in the deep dark areas of the web and how video continues to evolve as we adapt
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Favorite Tools for Comms Experts...IPR 547
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On this week's episode of Inside PR, Joe Thornley, Martin Waxman, and Gini Dietrich discuss our favorite tools and what has changed—and what has stayed the same—since COVID hit.
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Kylie Cochrane, Chair of the International Association for Public Participation (Inside P2 013)
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An interview with the Global Chair of the International Association for Public Participation, Kylie Cochrane.
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IAP2 Canada President Bruce Gilbert on three years of achievements and what's next (Inside P2 012)
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Joseph Thornley interviews Bruce Gilbert, outgoing President of IAP2 Canada, about the accomplishments of the past three years and what's next. Recorded at the IAP2 North American Conference in Victoria, British Columbia
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EngagePhase Editor Tim Bonnemann on covering the public participation industry (Inside P2 011)
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EngagePhase Weekly is the only newsletter that covers the public participation industry in North America and around the world. And today, EngagePhase Editor-in-Chief Tim Bonneman joins Joseph Thornley to talk about what it took to get EngagePhase going, how he covers the industry and what to expect from EngagePhase in the future.
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Inside P2 010: A new IAP2 Chapter for Canada's National Capital Region
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Peter Wilton joins Joseph Thornley to talk about the launch of a new chapter of the International Association for Public Participation in Canada's National Capital Region and what new members can expect from it.
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Rebecca Sutherns, CEO of Sage Solutions, co-hosts this week's podcast.
Rebecca shares her insights into the value of facilitated conversations with stakeholder groups and the challenge of facilitation in an era in which people are more focused on the screens of their mobile devices than to the people who may be sitting only feet away. She talks about integrating the richness and value of in-person experiences with online experiences that will reach larger numbers of people. This presents not only the challenge of asking questions to obtain useful responses across media, but also the challenge of interpreting data sets that will vary in both number and richness of data.
Let's Talk IAP2
Last September at the IAP2 North American conference in Denver, IAP2 kicked off an examination of its organization and business model. This has been underway at an elite level, driven by a "Change Committee" drawn from North America, Australasia, Indonesia, Southern Africa and Latin America.
This week, IAP2 sent an email to members like us inviting us to provide our input on a set of strategic directions that were established by the Change Committee. The intent is to gather member input via the Let's Talk IAP2 website for the next few weeks and then for a consensus decision from national and regional affiliate boards at IAP2 in Victoria.
Both Rebecca and I are looking forward to providing our input. However, for me, the fact that IAP2 is consulting members so late in the process, and only consulting members, as opposed to the groups that it is "involving", such as trainers, or empowering (both of those terms are defined in the IAP2 spectrum) elevates my puzzlement at the top-focused nature of IAP2. It is the only membership-based organization that I have participated in that treats members as peripheral to decision-making. That's ironic, when you think about the mission and mandate embodied in the organization's name - the International Association for Public Participation.
IAP2 is important to me -- I hope they get it right.
Let's Talk IAP2 launched August 8 and runs to August 27. Find out more information at Let's Talk IAP2.
Sidewalk goes off the rails?
Sidewalk Labs is planning to build a model smart community in Toronto. But their approach to community relations and public participation has undermined trust and raised opposition in the community.
Linkworthy
Check out these sources that provide context for this week's discussion.
- International Association for Public Participation
- Let's Talk IAP2
- Sidewalk Toronto scrambles to prepare for public meeting, as criticism mounts, James McLeod
- Google affiliate's grand ambition runs into Waterfront Toronto's reality, Jennifer Wells
- Rebecca Sutherns on Twitter
- Sage Solutions
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