Inside P2

In-person, online or hybrid? Which type of public meeting is the right fit for your public participation initiative?

Dr. Rebecca Sutherns is an expert facilitator, someone who can bring a group of people together, find their interests, get them thinking creatively, and draw out their views and preferences on issues under consideration. 

And she has thoughts on when to use in-person, online and hybrid meetings and how to plan for and run them effectively.

Join Joseph Thornley, Allison Zupan and Elizabeth Thornley as we go Inside P2 with Rebecca Sutherns.

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Catherine Rockandel has played a leading role in guiding IAP2 Canada over the past six years, first as a regional chapter leader, then as as Vice President of the national organization and, for the past three years, as President of IAP2 Canada.

She sat down recently with Joseph Thornley to talk about her time as the head of IAP2, leading through Covid, how the practice of public participation (p2) has evolved, and how p2 practitioners benefit from participating in IAP2 Canada.

Following the conversation, Joe is joined by co-hosts Allison Zupan and Elizabeth Thornley, who discuss the aspects of the conversation that stood out for them

A transcript of the interview and our discussion can be found on the Inside P2 podcast website.

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Welcome to the new season of the Inside P2 podcast, the podcast for Public Engagement Professionals.

This season, we're going to focus on the changes in public engagement since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

We'll be asking what has changed in public participation since COVID and before. How have the public's expectations shifted? How is AI affecting the practice of P2? What about hybrid P2? What other tools, strategies and practices are proving useful?

To get the answers to these and other relevant questions, we'll be interviewing leading practitioners and thought leaders in public participation for insight into the changes that they see in the world of P2 and how they are adapting. So come along on our journey as we go inside public participation.

There's no doubt that when people became accustomed to being online, they came to expect that we would offer them the opportunity for participation without showing up at the appointed place at the appointed time. They came to expect that they could participate when they want in the way that they want. They came to expect that they would have contextual content that was relevant and available to them to inform their views.

They also expect that they'll be able to meet in person, that they'll be able to return to the way that they used to do things without sacrificing the ability to do it online and remotely.

We're going to look at the new best practices, what changed, what has stuck and what has faded away. What tools are we using that we didn't use before? What strategies are we using? And we'll be staying right up to date with things like artificial intelligence. How is it affecting the practice of P2?

We welcome your suggestions for topics you'd like covered or questions you'd like answered. Send your questions and suggestions via [email protected] or @InsideP2podcast on X Twitter. 

On this episode 553 of Inside PR, Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman, and Joe Thornley do a special recording for the Earned Media Mastery Summit with Agility PR Solutions. They discuss the future of the PR industry—exciting things to come, as well as the challenges young professionals will face.

On this bi-weekly episode of Inside PR, Joe Thornley, Martin Waxman, and Gini Dietrich discuss the plumbing of the internet, from Feedburner and its replacements to how marketing automation works in the deep dark areas of the web and how video continues to evolve as we adapt

On this week's episode of Inside PR, Joe Thornley, Martin Waxman, and Gini Dietrich discuss our favorite tools and what has changed—and what has stayed the same—since COVID hit.

On the show today, an interview with the Global Chair of the International Association for Public Participation, Kylie Cochrane.

IAP2 is a federation of regional IAP2 organizations such as IAP2 USA and IAP2 Canada. Kylie Cochrane is the Chair of the overarching federation. And while we were both at the IAP2 North America Conference in Victoria, she sat down with me to talk about IAP2, its changing structure, major issues in the P2 practice and a look into the future.

Our discussion covered:

• The change process IAP2 is going through

• The areas of greatest activity.

• The enhancement of credibility and respect that has been accorded to the practice of public engagement that has resulted from the establishment of the Open Government Partnership

• The need for P2 practitioners to evolve our practices and tools to keep up with the interconnected activist groups' sophisticated use of social media and technology

During the IAP2 North American Conference in Victoria, Joseph Thornley sat down with outgoing IAP2 Canada President Bruce Gilbert to discuss the accomplishments during Bruce's three years as President and what's next. The growth of IAP2 Canada's membership at a time that many organizations are seeing declining growth; The reasons that the growth in IAP2 Canada's membership has been greatest in Western Canada while the east has lagged - and what can be done to promote growth in the east; The first Canadian skill symposium as a harbinger of an increasing emphasis at the region level to skills and expertise transference; The importance of IAP2 Canada providing a training program that is provided in both English and French; The importance of the new certification program and the challenge of promoting it to practitioners and employers; And his next challenge? Bruce is staying active in IAP2 as Canada's rep on the IAP2 Federation, where he will continue to participate in the change exercise. And beyond that, as a former senior official in the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Bruce wants to reach out other senior government officials to prozelityze the merits and benefits of senior participation.

EngagePhase Weekly is the only newsletter that covers the public participation industry in North America and around the world.  And today, EngagePhase Editor-in-Chief Tim Bonneman joins Joseph Thornley to talk about what it took to get EngagePhase going, how he covers the industry and what to expect from EngagePhase in the future.

Check out these sources that provide context for this week’s discussion.

• Tim Bonnemann on Twitter and LinkedIn
• EngagePhase
• IAP2 USA
• IAP2 Canada
• IAP2 Australia
• National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)
• Engage2Act

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Canada's National Capital Region is getting its own chapter of the International Association for Public Participation. And this week's Inside P2 guest host, Peter Wilton, is leading the steering committee that is launching it.

We talk about plans for the newly established chapter, which include both events and social media channels. If you are a public participation practitioner or research in the NCR, find more information or sign up to participate in the IAP2 NCR chapter.

Peter is a Senior Consultant at Hill+Knowlton Strategies, based in Ottawa Canada. Prior to joining H+K, Peter was a Public Engagement Advisor at the Nova Scotia Health Authority. Originally he hails from Newfoundland, where he earned a Master of Science (MSc) in Applied Health Services Research.

Check out these sources that provide context for this week's discussion.

• Peter Wilton on Twitter and LinkedIn
• IAP2 National Capital Region Website
• IAP2 NCR on Twitter

Inside P2 is produced by Joseph Thornley. I’d love to know what you think about the topics in this podcast, topics you’d like me to cover in future podcasts and people you’d like to hear from.

• Leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post
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Reviews help others to find this podcast. If you like this podcast, please review Inside P2 on Apple Podcasts.

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