Changing the story of public engagement
I’m bookmarking this terrific speech by Pete Peterson at NCDD Seattle 2012. Practitioners (especially working at the local government level) should know the reasons for engaging the public in a particular context, understand the inherent fear that public officials have because of very real experiences they have had with the public: “the three-minute at a microphone rant-a-thons”, and then “working with them to say that this isn’t the way it has to be” to build relations that “will move this field forward.” Video by Jeffrey Abelson.
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