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Category Archives: Consultation
More Budget Consultation, Budget Dialogues and Participatory Budgeting!
Everyone’s talking about spending and budgets at the moment, changes that are going to affect everyone’s lives. As well as the Government’s Spending Challenge Dialogue being run with our Dialogue App, it’s not surprising that we’re also getting tons of … Continue reading
Partnership discounts for Budget Simulator
After talking to several councils about purchasing models for Budget Simulator and understanding the growing need for consulting on cuts this year, I’m pleased to say that we are now able to offer discounts for organisations buying in partnership. Hopefully, … Continue reading
How can councils acheive £1bn in cuts? What if they stopped asking the public?
In light of George Osborne’s budget announcements a fortnight ago, this week the Local Government Association meets to discuss how it will make £1bn in savings. As part of this exercise, the Association invited 2,000 members of public to share … Continue reading
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Spreading Freedom with widgets
Within a few hours of the Your Freedom dialogue/crowd-sourcing site launching, we’re already seeing the ideas being distributed on sites via widgets. Here are a couple that we particularly like: @lesteph – Build your own Widget http://ht2.helpfultechnology.com/yourwidget/ props to @lesteph … Continue reading
How three UK councils used the internet for their consultation on budget cuts
From speaking to local authorities across the country, it’s very clear that the next round of budget consultations will be some of the most difficult and most important that most people have been involved in. I think it’s fair to … Continue reading
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What’s next?
This post has lots of pictures in it, which makes it look quite long. Just so you know. We’re all big fans of the West Wing – especially the rapid-fire dispatching of problems and moving on to the next thing, … Continue reading
BBC Panorama highlights importance of councils consulting on budget cuts
Today, MPs return to Westminster after a brief hiatus during which a huge change has taken place. A new government is now in place and after an eventful couple of weeks, we will soon begin to see the first policies … Continue reading
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Can you get twice as many responses to a consultation by running it online?
Wycombe Council did when they used our Budget Simulator to run their budget consultation last year. But don’t just take my word for it; check out Jeff Wilmore, the Council’s Head of Communications, and Tony Green, the Council’s Deputy Leader, … Continue reading
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New Opinion Suite Results Analysis Module Launched
Whilst we’re doing a lot of major work on Opinion Suite at the moment, adding in some substantial new modules, we also like to see if we can’t fit some quick wins into the work along the way. One we’re … Continue reading
Why should I take my Budget Consultation online?
Download this blog post as a pdf here Speaking to people about budget consultation all day, I hear a lot of different reasons as to why people are hesitant to make the move to online. I thought that it might … Continue reading
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