PLACEMAKERS
Not enough people get to influence what’s built in their community.
It’s time to level the playing field.
Participating in a traditional public meeting means traveling to a specific location at a specific time. Often the same people show up and the same voices are heard, which can lead to the same recycled ideas. Decisions are made based on a small sampling of participants with little or no diversity in the room. Many great ideas are never shared.
The term placemaker implies a promise: a commitment to cultivating environments that nurture community needs, in all their diversity.
We know that there is a better way to involve communities in the things they care about. Public engagement should be convenient, productive, transparent, inclusive, and importantly — fun.
MindMixer is a virtual town hall for community engagement.
Meet people where they are.
Leveraging the power of the Internet and social media, MindMixer’s online engagement tools have helped hundreds of municipalities develop connections that cross neighborhood lines, restore trust and enthusiasm in the planning process, and capture feedback that brings the public’s priorities into focus.
HOW IT WORKS
#1. Launch
The MindMixer team will help you to identify the discussion topics and achievable outcomes unique to your community. Enhance in-person meetings with question prompts, instant polls, surveys, photo, video and file sharing, rewards, participatory budgeting, map features, and more.
#2. Connect
Bridging the gap between citizens and government, MindMixer all-in-one platform enables 24-hour engagement from any location and across all language barriers. Target and grow an audience of contributors for your custom MindMixer site.
#3. Collaborate
Facilitate dialogue and brainstorming in a convenient, user-friendly online platform. Crowdsource local knowledge, report engagement statistics, and transform ideas into scalable plans and actions.
Continuously engage stakeholders.
Speed up public approval processes.
Get the answers you need, when you need them, with heightened efficiency.
Reach the right people in the right ways.
Give contributors convenient and interactive ways to participate in the process.
Understand who is and isn’t participating.
Analyze and export demographics, statistics, and project interactions.
About the platform.
MindMixer was founded on the belief that communities are full of good ideas, and that the key to strengthening communities is in the mining and mixing of those ideas. We believe it now, and we believed it nearly a decade ago when we first began helping urban planners to engage communities more effectively.
MindMixer blends the disciplines of urban planning and placemaking, public sector facilitation, dispute resolution, and digital technology into an interactive and accessible online engagement tool. We pride ourselves on providing the best-in-class engagement technology, web hosting, and application maintenance to ensure you will meet and exceed your engagement goals.
