I’ve enjoyed blogging about news and events that relate to
the practice of public engagement these last few years—and I hope you’ve found
it as useful and interesting as I have. Today
marks the last post I’ll be making on this blog, although I’ll continue to
share updates via Twitter from a variety of sources.
When I started blogging there were only a handful of
people/organizations posting on topics about public participation/deliberation,
although thankfully there now are more than 60 blogs that cover the field. (NCDD has a list of bloggers who post on
topics related to engagement at http://ncdd.org/rc/item/tag/blog
and their listserve also is excellent; also check out the IAP2USA blog at http://blog.iap2usa.org/). NCDD also has a great aggregation of these
blogs on their Facebook page.
Accordingly, from here on out I’ll be focusing solely on updates
via Twitter (@PublicDecisions),
from practitioners/researchers in public engagement as well as a range of other
areas such as planning, health, etc. Twitter
will allow me to post more information in a more timely fashion and from an
even more diverse array of people, organizations and places. I hope you’ll check out my Twitter feed and I’ll
look forward to retweeting news about trends, tools and ideas that you’re
willing to share as well.
Beth Offenbacker
PublicDecisions
