Allison is the founder and Director of Darzin Software. After 15 years consulting and advising Governments and Businesses on stakeholder engagement, she decided to turn her attention to creating software to support the development of better stakeholder relationships and extracting true meaning from stakeholder data.
Using Darzin out in the field, on your mobile device is now even easier with our newly published responsive design. You can now use all of Darzin's functionality on pretty much any device. The pages[...]
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the inaugural National Community Engagement in Infrastructure Forum conference. (We also sponsored and helped organise the conference - a nice opportunity[...]
On 25 May 20218, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will replace the Data Protection Directive as the new global standard on data privacy for all government agencies and organizations that[...]
I recently attended the Temple Symposium on Community Engagement in Infrastructure. The topic of formal qualifications and experience levels of engagement practitioners received quite a lot of[...]
Chatbots (bots) are essentially a little bit of software that allows you to communicate with people, en masse, within a Messenger platform. Bots live in the same platform where most of[...]
I recently read a case study for a project up in Queensland which equated no complaints with success. It made me sigh internally, thinking that as a mature public participation industry we should[...]
Reflecting on the debate raging around the community on the issue of the marriage equality poll, I thought it would be interesting to evaluate the process with my community engagement practitioner[...]
Do you put a value on your stakeholder and consultation data? If not, why not? You are investing time and resources into collecting that data, perhaps you've also invested in a stakeholder management[...]
Wondering if you need specialised Stakeholder Management Software like Darzin? This handy infographic covers some of the 'hidden' costs of not having an adequate system to manage your Public[...]
Trying to decide between a CRM (Customer Relation Management) product and a SRMS (Stakeholder Relationship Management System) can be tricky if you haven't been exposed to any of these types of[...]
Why don't we evaluate more often? The Stakeholder Engagement/Public Consultation field has grown incredibly over the last decade or two, with higher expectations for consultation, and[...]
If you've read the comments section on news articles, or online 'debates' you would have seen how increasingly vitriolic and hard-lined they have become. I used to love reading them but now find[...]
We Stakeholder Engagement practitioners are nothing short of evangelical in our zeal to sing the praises and benefits of consultation/engagement. So much so that I sometimes wonder if[...]
If you've included an online component to your stakeholder engagement or public consultation process, you will have made decisions about the best way to structure the process. There[...]
So you're looking for software to help you manage your public consultation process, or just generally for more efficient stakeholder data management. Or perhaps you're not sure[...]
