Happy New Year! As we hit a collective reset, I’ve been thinking about how I will approach 2022 and have formed my “engagement resolutions” for the year ahead: Do everything online offline and everything offline online. The pandemic has forever changed how we approach engagement, shifting online...
Setting up successful engagement requires finding the tools that are right for the task. At Connect the Dots we are always looking for new ways to engage with communities: online, in-person, and moving seamlessly between the two. So how do we determine what tactics are...
For Planetizen, Connect the Dots’ Marisa Denker and Alexandra Zazula teamed with transportation engagement leaders at major firms, Sam Schwartz and Nelson Nygaard to envision how transportation engagement can evolve to be robust, impactful and inclusive of groups who have long been excluded from the...
MASITE - SEPTA & Connect the Dots SEPTA and Connect the Dots explored this topic in a presentation about engagement best practices from the ongoing Reimagining Regional Rail project. This starts by defining engagement values and goals, working with the client to determine the appropriate tools...
The below article, Lessons From Transportation Planners' Pivot to Virtual Engagement, was originally published in the American Planning Association Magazine on October 1st. It was written by Marisa Denker of Connect the Dots and Adrienne Zicklin Kanter of Stokes Creative Group in collaboration with leaders...
Connect the Dots is excited to share the latest addition to our team of engagement experts: meet Rosanne, our new Manager of Engagement + Strategy in the Philadelphia office. Learn all about her and her journey below! Why did you join Connect the Dots? Connect the Dots’...
Have you joined the Bus Revolution?! Connect the Dots is hard at work alongside SEPTA, Nelson Nygaard, Portfolio Associates, and Merit on SEPTA’s Bus Revolution -- a comprehensive redesign of SEPTA’s entire bus network to make buses more reliable, efficient, and simpler to understand and use....
Connect the Dots founder and director Marisa Denker will be teaching a course at the University of Pennsylvania this fall: Participatory Cities. Participatory Cities will explore how communities, stakeholders, and other players contribute to cities, as well as how engagement can be designed to bridge divides...
Connect the Dots is super excited to welcome Alexandra Zazula as our newest Associate in Philadelphia. We've had a lot of fun getting to know her, so here's a little Q + A so you can get to know her too. Why did you join Connect...
We think data for civic engagement can help us figure it out We at the Edit the City! team (Marisa Denker/Connect the Dots Insights, Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman/THINK.urban and Stephen Larrick/Stae) have been working hard behind the scenes thanks to an award from the Knight Foundation’s Data for...