Welcome! OnlineTownhalls offers elected leaders, government agencies, and organizations the ability to engage the public in a meaningful way on a large scale.
Participating is intuitive and setting it up is easy. Browse the tutorial or featured conversations below and see how it’s done.
Quick Start Guide
Here’s a brief and informal overview of OnlineTownhalls software. If you run into any technical challenges not explained in this tutorial, please email lucas@onlinetownhalls.com with your question.
1. Open up one of the conversations (example links are available at the bottom of this blog post).
2. Read the overview tab to get an idea of the topic of the conversation.
3. Join the conversation by clicking the “Conversation” tab or the participate button at the bottom of the page.
4. Put your mouse over one of the points in the map to see a preview of its full text.
5. Click to 
read/rate/respond to that point.
6. Login with a username of “tester” and a password of “tester” or create a new account.
7. You’ll see a new popup window with the selected point on the left and an area to respond on the right (see below).
8. You can rate the validity of the selected point on the left. Scroll down to see the 
button and you’ll be able to rate the relevance of the selected point to its parent point.
9. Use the space on the right to respond to the selected point. Choose from the drop-down menu to indicate whether you are making a supporting point, counterpoint, question, answer, etc. Tip: each response should have one main point; if you have several points to make, create separate responses.
10. Continue to browse the conversation map to see other points which you may want to rate or to which you would like to respond.
Featured Conversations
When you’re ready, email us to get started!
