E-Engagement

About This Course

The Internet offers huge opportunities to engage more people, more sustainably. It can offer a range and depth of engagement that is impossible in face-to-face meetings, and the results can be reported more fully and transparently than has previously been possible. This new course explores the opportunities and the pitfalls of this evolving field of engagement.

Level

This course is ideal for people who have some experience and interest in engagement processes, and who are looking for more innovative approaches to involving people in decision-making.

Aim

To provide participants with an understanding of the potential and the pitfalls associated with using the Internet for engagement processes.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

>  Describe how to exploit the huge potential of the Internet for engagement 
>  Understand when and how to use the internet, and when not to 
>  Explain how to design an electronic engagement process 
>  List the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to electronic engagement 
>  Describe the management of process, websites and participants 
>  List how to hook and hold potential participants 
>  Explain the formats for feeding back results 

Indicative Content

>  Maximising the benefits of the Internet for engagement processes 
>  When to use electronic engagement and when not to
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Approaches to electronic engagement 

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Designing electronic engagement processes 

>  Advantages and disadvantages of using electronic engagement 
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Managing electronic processes 

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Managig websites 

>  Attracting and managing potential participants 
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Feeding back results

Course Style

There will be a balance of presentations and workshops, and you will be able to explore and discuss actual cases with the trainers.

The Environment Council
212 High Holborn
London WC1V 7BF
Ph: 020 7632 0138
Fax: 020 7242 1180 
Registered Charity No. 294075

For information or updates please email  training at The Environment Council.