Community Engagement Blog

Maptionnaire’s blog is a collection of stories about community engagement. Discover insights and best practices about public participation, latest Maptionnaire tech developments & news, and tips for using Maptionnaire.

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How to Measure Community Engagement and Its Impact

Grab these community engagement metrics (aka KPIs) to track the quality and impact of participation and improve related processes.

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Impactful Community Engagement: From Sharing Opinions to Producing Place-Based Knowledge with Citizens

Discover how Finnish planners produce place-based knowledge with citizens for impactful community engagement. What are the key factors for their success?

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How to Organize Citizen Engagement in a Master Planning Process? Our Learnings from the Webinar

Here is a quick summary of the webinar: explore tips and action points on outreach planning, reporting, and analysis for citizen engagement in master planning.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Community Mapping for Planning Professionals

Community mapping helps planners gather local knowledge — and design better solutions that serve that community. But how do you organize it effectively?

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3 Solutions for Better Integrating the Results of Public Participation in Urban Planning

Read about three solutions that help planners to get relevant input from residents and better integrate the results of public participation in urban planning.

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Community Engagement Trends
7 Community Engagement Trends in 2023

Get to know what public engagement experts think of engagement trends in 2023: from climate change mitigation to early engagement and youth involvement.

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Survey Design & Outreach Tips
What is Gamification? Explore The Basics

Understand the basics of gamification and apply this strategy for increasing user engagement, retention, and loyalty from eCommerce to urban planning.

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Increasing the Impact of Public Participation in Planning: 6 Examples from Urban Planning Projects

How to increase the impact of public participation in planning? Read about Finnish municipalities increasing the influence of engagement with a PPGIS platform.

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Different Angling: Measuring Public Opinion on Fishing, Aquaculture, and Tourism with PPGIS in Varangerfjord, Norway

PPGIS tools are used in Varangerfjord to measure public opinion on aquaculture, fish farming, and tourism and the environmental effects of these industries.

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Faroe Islands Get Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts with PPGIS

A PPGIS study on the Faroe Islands explores economic, social, and environmental conflicts brought around by global industries such as fish farming and tourism.

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The Best Experts are the Citizens Themselves: Listen to Maptionnaire on a Smart in the City Podcast

Maarit Kahila of Maptionnaire and Johanna Palomäki of Lahti joined Smart in The City Podcast. Learn more about what community engagement in a smart city is like!

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Conducting A Community Needs Assessment: Steps, Tools, and Examples

A community needs assessment helps you identify problems and service gaps in a community. Grab these tips on assessment steps and tools, as well as a few examples.

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Using PPGIS for Stakeholder Engagement in the Arctic: Maptionnaire & ArcticHubs

ArcticHubs aims at co-creating successful policies around resource use. Maptionnaire’s PPGIS solution is used in the project as a data collection and stakeholder engagement tool.

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Survey Design & Outreach Tips
How to Design Community Engagement Survey Questions

Read about the principles of designing community engagement survey questions for getting excellent data and high response rates.

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Parempia kaupunkeja rakentamassa: Kokemuksia tehokkaasta asukasosallisuustyöstä | Maptionnaire Breakfast 13.10.2022

Maptionnairen aamiaistapahtuma kokosi yhteen kaupunkisuunnittelun ja -tutkimuksen ammattilaisia keskustelemaan asukasosallisuudesta.

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