Practices & Innovations
Recent Contributions
| 1. | Practice: | Website Redevelopment  | | Contributor: | Prince George (City) | | Description: | On March 30, 2011, the City of Prince George launched a revised website, www.princegeorge.ca, as part of the myPG in action initiatives. Throughout extensive consultation, the City's myPG (Integrated Community Sustainability Plan) project stimulated great community conversations around several topics, including how to better engage and communicate with the citizens of Prince George. The revised website allows the City to reach out more effectively with the public, ensuring individuals can stay connected to all the news from the City of Prince George. The City's revised website, developed internally, replaced its existing site and showcases extensive social media communications, feature stories, City facts of the day, community champion's profiles, and an advanced search bar and navigation, and many more items.
This project was nominated for the 2011 UBCM Community Excellence Award for Best Practices, Website.
| | | | 2. | Practice: | 2015 Canada Winter Games Bid Engagement Plan | | Contributor: | Prince George (City) | | Description: | After an 18 month BID process, this past September, the City of Prince George was awarded the rights to host the 2015 Canada Winter Games (see announcement highlight video). Prince George edged out Kamloops and Kelowna to earn the right to host the 2015 Canada Winter Games. Having hosted the 1973 Canada Summer Games in New Westminster and Burnaby and the 1993 Canada Summer Games in Kamloops, 2015 will mark only the third time the Canada Games are hosted in the province and the first time for British Columbia to host the Winter Games. Once the Technical Review was completed in Phase 1 of the Bid, the Prince George Bid Committee trailed both Kamloops and Kelowna in scores. Council established a Select Committee (2015 Canada Winter Games Bid) to prepare Phase II of the Bid. Community members were appointed by the Mayor and City Manager to fill specific roles, and a City Secretariat group was formed to help provide resources to Committee. Nonetheless, all communities were required to submit their final Bid package to the Canada Games Council by May of 2010. Later in the spring, Prince George was also informed that it should also prepare to host a daylong visit by the 2015 Canada Winter Games Evaluation Committee on August 9th. The Prince George Bid Committee now faced a monumental task to engage the community, rally community support, and move from 3rd place to 1st place all in 6 months. So how did they do it? The answer was to call in more volunteers, develop a dynamic marketing strategy, create effective communications and engagement plans, and develop a powerful media relations campaign to keep key messaging front and center in the community and region of Northern British Columbia. To gain public support of hosting a $50 million event, it was essential that all information was transparent to the public, and the BID committee ensured this was consistent from beginning to end.
This project received an Honourable Mention for the 2011 UBCM Community Excellence Award for Best Practices, Civic Engagement.
| | | | 3. | Practice: | District of Sparwood Website | | Contributor: | Sparwood (District) | | Description: | The District of Sparwood's web initiative had two primary objectives. One was to create and develop a website that offered consistency and continuity with the new brand. The other objective was to provide a robust, updateable, compelling, user-friendly interface capable of performing intuitively for diverse audiences.
This project received an Honourable Mention for the 2011 UBCM Community Excellence Award for Best Practices, Website. | | |
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