The evolution of web-based technologies has spurred on the integration of e-consultation as a fundamental component of a broader public consultation strategy. These strategies and plans reflect an increasing shift towards blending offline and online. This “blended” approach is an opportunity to increase access, reach more citizens and expand dialogue.
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If you really want to hit the connect. Tell a story. Don’t rely the data or evidenced-based information. Creating context and meaning that ignites engagement is Why Stories Matter!

Back from the 6th National HIV/AIDS Skills Symposium in Montreal where I delivered my “Why Stories Matter” workshop to standing room only.  Wonderful engagement by people from across Canada.

The Centre of Excellence in Communications and The Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Marketing (CEPSM), Ottawa, in association with Catapult Media, Halifax, are offering a series of professional development workshops for the Atlantic Canada public and not-for-profit sectors in the context of the Atlantic Canada Marketing and Communications Professional Development Program, Halifax, Nova Scotia, [...]

The Canadian AIDS Society is a national coalition of over 120 community-based AIDS organizations across Canada. CAS has selected Catapult Media to develop their three-year strategic plan. Working in collaboration with CAS and its members and stakeholders we will be developing a plan to support the mission and mandate of CAS.

So much of how we see the world is constructed by the frames in which we position our values and our ideas, in turn these frames ultimately shape our world view.  Frames clearly articulated by George LaKoff, are created through language.  Catapult Media has launched www.storyworks.ca  to begin to work in partnership [...]

Working with leaders in HIV/AIDS, youth and homelessness, community economic development, culture, international development, environmental and education sectors it is clear to me that cross-sectoral conversations need to take place on a more strategic level.
 We don’t live in silos.  So much of our work towards progressive social change however still is so isolated on a [...]

“A story is a re-imagined experience narrated with enough detail and feeling to cause your listeners’ imagination to experience it as real,” says storytelling guru and author Annette Simmons.
One of the things that I have learned working in the NGO community for two decades is that we have a hard time telling our [...]

One of the most insipid characteristics of globalization is the utter alienation it has created between citizens and their capital, communities, civic agency and our collective power. Civil organizations are working in a focused effort in a variety of public engagement campaigns to get out the vote, to make poverty history to rebirth democratic [...]

As the fog rolls through the harbour in St. John’s Nfld. it has not obscured the view for over 400 Canadians gathered here.These Canadians are members of co-ops or credit unions. In fact they are like 1 in 4 Canadians, millions of us belong to credit unions and cooperatives.
They are gathered here at the [...]