Category Archives: Dialogue tips & tricks

Tips and tricks about getting the best out of Dialogue App.
Advice and how-to guides for running a dialogue.

Customising your Dialogue App

A vanilla off-the-shelf Dialogue App instance is alright for some, but why not try adding some jazzy flavour through the use of our skinning and customisation options? Karl Orsborn tells you how. Continue reading

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How Dialogue App Has Been Used for Budget Consultations

With the UK public sector under financial pressure, councils, government departments and statutory bodies are having to look for places to cut expenditure which will have a minimum impact on service quality. Yet, crowdsourcing can inspire innovative, and above all, … Continue reading

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One discussion or many? How different clients have used Dialogue App for public engagement

Fundamentally, Dialogue App is about asking the public for ideas, and inviting people to debate and discuss each other’s suggestions. However, there are a number of different ways that a dialogue can be set up and run. Here are three … Continue reading

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Designing for successful crowdsourcing and dialogue: users and roles in Dialogue App

Dialogue App is designed to make it easy to run a successful dialogue process, to achieve outcomes like policy crowdsourcing, ideas generation, and participatory budgeting. A key aspect of designing for success is the approach to user roles in the … Continue reading

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3 ways Dialogue App makes it easy to export data, analyse and report on a dialogue process

A dialogue process is a great way to do things like policy crowdsourcing, ideas generation, and participatory budgeting. One of the great things about a dialogue process is that it combines the free flow of debate and ideas with a … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing ideas with Dialogue App: 5 levels of user engagement

The basic principle of Dialogue App is very straightforward: users can submit ideas and tag, rate and comment on other people’s ideas.  But from these simple interactions can emerge complex discussion, lively debate, and innovative thinking. The key to the … Continue reading

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