Sentences with phrase «engage the public more»

«Using social media and by approaching this issue more creatively, we will be able to engage the public more effectively and reach out to a wider audience,» said Ng.

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«The more engaged employees are, the more productive and effective they are,» John Palguta, vice president of policy at the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, told GovernmentExecutive.com.

The tech industry may become more engaged once the public debate becomes clearer, Abdo said.

Social media can be great to build a community, but now that you're in office, what more can you do to keep the public engaged?

I applaud McDonald's for at least making some attempts to get families to engage more in public, to put the phones down.

The public expects them to be more visible, and engage directly with them.

The proponent clearly has more work to do in order to fulfill the public commitment it has made to engage with Aboriginal groups and local communities along the route.»

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

As it shows, gun owners and supporters of laxer gun laws are more likely to have recently engaged a public official or political organization on this issue.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

For some reason the Minister seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging Canadians in discussion on critical policy issues.

The company's subsequent teeing up of a monetization strategy for WhatsApp, via the forthcoming launch of business accounts, likely explains its push to link users of the end - to - end encrypted messaging platform with Facebook users, where the same people have likely engaged in far more public digital activity — such as liking pages, searching for content, and making posts and comments that Facebook is able to read.

The government seems more intent with not providing the public with information, rather than engaging the public in discussion on critical policy issues.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

Respondents are now, for some time last past have, engaged in the advertising, offering for sale, sale and distribution of cosmetics, toiletries and associated items and distributorships and franchises to the public, and are inducing, and have induced, persons to invest substantial sums of money in respondents» multilevel marketing program as hereinafter more fully described.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

My own work in and out of the office — in the pages of First Things and in the many conferences held by the Institute on Religion and Public Life — has helped me both deepen my own Catholic faith and engage more fully in ecumenical dialogue.

Third, engage in public conversation and in private witnessing in a respectful way, caring more about people than scoring points.

In the public square and at the ballot box, we must be more engaged, not less.

Fortunately for me, Obama and the people around him - folks like Pete Rouse, Valerie Jarrett, Denis McDonough, Melody Barnes, Michael Strautmanis, and Chris Lu - valued results more than reputation, and saw the need to engage people of faith in the public square.

With more than 70 % of California's winegrape acreage and case production engaged in the CSWA program, the industry has bolstered its environmental and sustainability credentials in the public policy and marketplace arenas, including the competitive global market,» said Robert P. (Bobby) Koch, president and CEO of Wine Institute.

Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitors.

So we are working to make it easier for mothers and fathers to share caring and earning for their families, through measures such as more father - inclusive maternity services, a fairer system of leave entitlements, public services that systematically engage with men as fathers, and employer practices that recognise that most men are dads.

Educating and engaging the public to learn more about wildlife through citizen science is also a hallmark of conservation at Mass Audubon.

In 2002, The Pew Charitable Trusts became a public charity, giving us more flexibility to engage in new initiatives and operate programs for maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

For PA and PR firms in today's market it hardly comes as a shock that an informal, public and opinionated platform sounds more like a way to lose friends and alienate people than one to promote services and engage new clients.

For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.

While Facebook and other social media played an essential role in creating the protests themselves, I would argue that their even more important role consisted in continuously fuelling them, as multiple Facebook pages dedicated to the protests started posting photos, videos and articles on what was happening, while simultaneously engaging the public and the protesters in a discussion on a wide range of important and thought - provoking civic topics, ranging from the manifestations themselves to Romania's political future.

«Our public language is entering a decadent phase — less able to explain, less able to engage except in the purely political, more prone to exaggeration and paranoia.

One of the more famous ways is that they can use knowledge gained from hearings, and also knowledge of upcoming regulations and rules that are not available to the general public to engage in speculative investing (purchases of stocks and equities).

This is because the Tories have been promoting primaries for a good while, and not as far as I can see on the basis of any other argument except that they think it would be good to engage more of the public in party political democracy and because it makes them look more welcoming as a party which might garner votes in the long run.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

County employees, including Child Protective Service workers, public health nurses, and case managers, who engage with the public in the community are taking advantage of tablets to be more efficient in the field.

There is no more effective way to engage the public than a Constitutional Convention, and there is no place that needs it more than Albany.

Group for the East End unveiled a website last Thursday that's designed to get the public more engaged in conservation... Read more engaged in conservation... Read MoreMore

As a charity the Society exists for public benefit and its work engages more than three million people per year.

More curiously, there is also no mention of her marriage to David Wheeldon in the Register of Members» Interests — even though MPs are required to disclose family members engaged in lobbying the public sector.

But there can be no doubt that Labour's efforts to make partisan politics more accessible and democratic have inspired many hitherto passive citizens to engage in politics, and so contributed in important ways to reinvigorating the previously weak connection between the party and the public.

It might be, if we had that more engaged discussion of the trade - off, that health would turn out to be the area where there is the strongest public sense that local variation should be rather limited, against national guaranteed minimum standards, and probably in areas like the approach taken to public health and preventive services.

I am not opposed to more interaction with the public, but would note that the supervisor is constantly engaged with the public, even when walking down the street.

When county organizations are reluctant to embrace technology or lack a web presence, it suggests that they are more focussed on maintaining old power structures that have existed for decades than engaging with the public, according to Kaehny.

Not only is the public more engaged and informed than ever before, but a majority of residents Upstate, who stand to lose the most, firmly oppose fracking (51 to 38 percent).

Zephyr will be a strong and persuasive voice for moving the country toward greater equality in earnings for women and the 99 %, increasing the minimum wage, and helping more citizens engage in electoral politics by supporting public funding of elections.

«Ramarley's family and the public still don't know whether Haste is facing charges for the full extent of his misconduct or whether the 12 plus other officers who engaged in misconduct will face accountability,» Colon added, saying it was time for «more than just rhetoric.»

This Communication Toolkit provides guidance for scientists to build skills to more effectively communicate and engage with public audiences, including ways to apply the fundamentals of communication to scientific topics.

Read Varner's public engagement case study, «Engaging K - 12 Students in Authentic Place - Based Research,» on our Case Studies page and read more about Varner in AAAS News.

In her nomination letter, Hassol wrote that in one year, «Mann has done more to engage with the public on science than most active scientist - communicators do in an entire career.»

In consultation with the AAAS Center for Public Engagement, the AAAS DoSER «Engaging Scientists» project supports scientists in becoming more effective ambassadors for their research interests, their disciplines, and for science as a whole with a broad and diverse spectrum of publics, and particularly with religious communities.