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The Alliance for Innovation brings you the TLG Learning Café, highlights of the Transforming Local Government conference brought home to your organization.

If You Engage Them, They Will Come...Again and Again:  Building Sustained Community Engagement

Is your community undertaking a major comprehensive planning effort or visioning exercise?  Are you feeling overwhelmed about how to engage the community in that work?  In "If You Engage Them, They Will Come...Again and Again," Ian Hall and Gary Holmes of Winnipeg and Larry Schooler in Austin will take participants through an interactive session to prepare you to tackle those challenges.  You'll also hear first-hand experiences from the presenters, have a chance to discuss challenges and opportunities, and see community engagement techniques.

This session is ideally suited for local government professionals who specialize in urban planning, community engagement, city management, technology, facilitation, organizational development, public relations, and media relations.  It will help professionals from any aspect of local government understand the significance of working together with professionals from other departments and from outside their municipality to develop a multi-pronged approach to community engagement and comprehensive planning.  Finally, it will lay the groundwork for local government professionals to create a sustainable culture of community engagement.

Attendees will learn:

• The importance of building consensus around a long-term community vision and how that informs next steps
• The need to pick the right mix of community engagement tools and community champions to capture broad public input
• How to sustain public enthusiasm and support for long-term community engagement

Title: If You Engage Them, They Will Come...Again and Again: Building Sustained Community Engagement

Date: february 21, 2012

Time: 1:00PM ET - 2:00PM ET

1:00PM ET – 2:00 PM ET; 12:00PM CT – 1:00 PM CT; 11:00AM MT – 12:00 PM MT; 10:00AM PT – 11:00 AM PT

Price is $49 for Alliance Members and $99 for nonmembers.  Organization-wide viewing available for $249.00

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