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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Implementation: Where can your municipality go for help?
In my last two blog posts, I’ve discussed the importance of effective implementation, and some of its challenges. I’ve also provided a case study exemplifying HSAL’s award-winning approach to implementation. Implementation is a strong theme this year in the planning profession, … Continue reading
Posted in Planning
Tagged communication, community, consultation, government, implementation, municipality, stakeholders, sustainability
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Implementation in Action: The Benefits Blueprint
As planners, we are agents of change. We play a vital role in putting ideas into action so that tomorrow will be better from what is today. We all know change is difficult and that it requires much more than … Continue reading
Posted in Planning
Tagged community, government, implementation, management, media, municipality, project management, stakeholders, strategic plannning
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Peer Review Issues
This is Danya’s final post on the HSAL peer review process. There are many positive aspects of a peer review process that I previously presented in my last three blog posts. However, there are also some areas that should be seen as a … Continue reading
Posted in Consultation
Tagged communication, consultation, peer review, public engagement, risk management
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Strategy to Implementation: Getting From Here to There
One of the most challenging aspects of strategic planning (public or private) is implementing the plan – realizing the vision, goals and objectives set-out in the plan. There are numerous private sector studies that show a feeble relationship between strategy … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, community, implementation, municipality, policy, politics, project management, strategic planning
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Social Sciences and the Peer Review Process
This is Part Three of Danya’s series on the peer review process. I have previously discussed what a peer review entails as well as some of the questions a peer reviewer would ask when reviewing documentation, etc. This entry documents … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, peer review, public engagement, social science
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Peer Review Questions
This is part two in Danya’s series on the Peer Review Process. When we conduct a peer review, we’re basically trying to determine if we would come to the same conclusions as the author(s) if we did the work ourselves. … Continue reading
Five Screenwriting Rules to Improve Your Writing
I’m currently enrolled in a fiction screenwriting course through Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education. Part professional development, part exercise in creativity, practicing the art of screenwriting is helping me to hone my communication skills, and is pushing me … Continue reading
Posted in Communications
Tagged communication, marketing, project management, social media
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