HowConductConsultation
From E-Consultation Guide
					
										
					
					Describe how consultation is conducted
In a brainstorming exercise we tried to list the ways consultation is conducted.
- polling
 - opinion-polls
 - elections
 - forums
 - (satisfaction) surveys
 - public meetings
 - focus groups
 - rumours
 - comments/complaints forms
 - on-line responses
 - consultation documents
 - citizens juries
 - deliberative polling
 - scenario workshops
 - electronic voting
 - consensus conferences
 - issue forums
 - petitioning representatives
 - shared interest forums
 - area forums
 - crisis consultation
 - media debates
 - face-to-face
 - telephone polling
 - consultation conferences
 - expert conferences
 - reluctantly
 - badly
 - clinics
 
Themes
As there was such a long list, we then tried to find some common themes.
- data collection
 - meetings
 - measuring preferences
 - events
 - deliberation
 - interrogative
 - measuring satisfaction
 - direct or virtual contact
 - motivation
 - interpretation