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Photography or video contests invite members of a community to submit photos on a certain topic, generally community character or special places, to collect different perspectives on how residents see the community's heart and soul.

Visioning is a community engagement process that helps people to articulate or define the future they want for their communities. Visioning is often completed in conjunction with a master planning initiative and often looks decades ahead.

The Placemaking process involves identifying community sites that need revitalization, determining a vision for the site, and crafting a new place that will fulfill that vision. The Placemaking approach can be effective on various levels of scale.

EngagingPlans is an interactive public engagement platform that improves outreach and engagement in public processes, creating meaningful opportunities for citizen and stakeholder feedback—at home, at work, or on-the-go.

The Common Ground process focuses on identifying and working from areas of overlap and consensus in people's viewpoints, rather than focusing on differences and disagreements or necessarily striving for consensus.

Guided Visioning is a process that allows participants to open their minds and create a vision of the future of their community and the necessary steps to manifest it.

The Natural Step Framework (TNS) is a science-based, systems framework to help organizations, individuals and communities take meaningful steps toward sustainability.

Visual Preference Surveys (VPS) are tools to help communities establish a common vision of what their localities should look like by asking participants to rate their preference or dislike of selected images of the community.

Community Remarks enables citizens to put a marker on a map to communicate about issues. GIS layers can be added as overlays to guide feedback. It is straight forward web-based application that makes it easy for citizens to talk about place.