Diligent announced Diligent Community, a next-generation governance and civic engagement
solution for public organizations that simplifies the end-to-end agenda and
meeting management process. Offering significant
updates to the platform, Diligent
Community, enables organizations to manage complex governance tasks in any
environment and significantly reduce meeting preparation overhead efforts,
freeing up time to focus on the organization's mission.
The landscape for public boards
has changed significantly over the last
several years, and technology will play an important role in driving security,
engagement and trust in the future. Diligent
Community improves the process of agenda and meeting management while
ensuring accessibility, increasing transparency and boosting community
engagement by utilizing a fully secure and streamlined process.
At its core, Diligent Community enables state and local governments, special
districts, school districts, libraries and community colleges to better serve
their communities through more effective governance. The new solution:
- Improves engagement: The Public
Request to Speak feature empowers board administrators and leaders to advocate
for their mission while addressing critical community issues
- Increases efficiency: Users can
customize workflows for meeting preparation, including adding content for
approval, sharing agenda packets via one-click publishing and republishing
last-minute agenda items; meeting minutes can be captured in real time, with
automatic video timestamping
- Expands access and fosters
collaboration: The Library Document Center supports sharing documents and
marking content for public consumption
- Promotes inclusivity: Its
out-of-the-box solution is ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant and follows Open
Meeting Law guidelines, so information is accessible on any device, enabling
leaders to connect with their entire community anytime
"ISBA has long partnered with
Diligent to supply our members with solutions to successfully manage their
board governance responsibilities," said Terry Spradlin, executive director of
the Indiana School Boards Association (ISBA). "We're excited to bring Diligent Community to our membership
and pleased that we can offer our members preferred pricing for this powerful
new platform."
"We recognize that digital
transformation poses a number of challenges to public organizations that have
limited resources and expertise," said MarKeith Allen, senior vice president
and managing director of Mission-Driven Organizations at Diligent. "With Diligent Community, we are delivering
on our commitment to provide solutions that will simplify processes and
management so that public organizations and their leaders can get back to
focusing on their purpose and mission."