Virtual engagement can be an efficient, inclusive, cost-effective way to gather people together to inform and involve them in your project, program, or decision-making process. Virtual engagement can also be rife with uncertainty over whether the technology will work, if you are getting the right people to engage, and difficulties in reading the audience’s reactions.
Raftelis can help lessen this stress by taking on the meeting facilitation, technology, and engagement strategy. Our process helps ensure that people are engaged at a level they want to be, that the meeting produces an outcome, and that you have a summary record that the meeting happened.
Local governments and public agencies have long yearned for a way to end the public participation expectation of “three minutes at the microphone” during a public meeting. The lessons we’ve learned using virtual engagement with our communities is one of the bells that will not be unrung as we return to traditional ways and places of work.
