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"OurSpace is an Online Social Network powered by European Youth and Youth Organisations to: Debate, Discuss and Engage on EU topics, National Affairs and Policies. Influence EU and National policy-makers on issues that concern European Youth. Connect and network with peers online, on Facebook and on-the-go. Benefit youth NGOs with a multi-channel and multi-lingual community & tool."

Dialogue by Design, as part of the OPM Group, specialises in running public and stakeholder engagement processes using online, paper-based and face-to-face methods.

Our latest online debate discussed the best ways to run an online consultation

More online engagement evaluation

Article about Finland's crowd sourced policy making and the Open Ministry.

'If you are trying to connect with the public, where you go online matters. If you choose to make Facebook your platform for civic activity, you are implicitly suggesting that a specific class of people is more worth your time and attention than others. Of course, splitting your attention can also be costly and doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be reaching everyone anyhow. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The key to developing a social media strategy is to understand who you're reaching and who you're not and make certain that your perspective is accounting for said choices. Understand your biases and work to counter them.'

"One such thing is happening in the Netherlands: thousands of civil servants belonging to all government organizations have built their own "intranet" using Pleio ("government square", in Dutch) a platform that runs on the open source networking engine Elgg."

This Guide aims to become one of the best sources of useful examples, tools and practical advice about how UK public sector organisations can engage online.

"Puzzled by Policy is a complete solution for engaging people in the policy process. It offers a toolkit to support improved policy-making through a combination of online and offline citizen engagement."

Welcome to ParticipateDB, a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation brought to you by Intellitics, a provider of digital engagement solutions

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Civic Exchange is a platform for improving public services by showcasing and promoting the reuse of civic software. This includes online tools that support public service delivery, apps/services built on government APIs, or initiatives piloted with a local authority and created by others. The platform is run by Nesta in collaboration with our Code for Europe partners.

We help governments and public bodies around the world do this by providing awesome digital democracy apps and consultation software to facilitate online policy-making and consultation.

What does active listening look like online?

Handy for us to help folk who are anxious about negative online comments?

This is a really useful little chart. Good find!

Published on April 11, 2012 Edward Andersson discusses what digital technology means for engagement and what the strengths and weaknesses are of engaging online. A week ago I gave a talk at Government Digital Services on Digital and face to face engagement. This post is a summary of what I said.

Advice from Comms at Cornwall Council about good use of YouTube. Ofcom: YouTube is the UK's most popular social media site and the second largest search engine after Google.

We want to challenge this traditional way of operating elections. We've already started building a prototype for an online voting platform, designed to operate a policy-based election. With Kickstarter's help, we will launch our platform at the time of the 2015 general election campaign. Participants will vote on ideas, and not just the narrow field of polarised ideas often dictated by political parties and the media. Voters will consider policies, the results will be captured and visualised, with national data being updated as the election progresses. Data and trends can then be used as part of a national debate.