Presentation given at the American Planning Association conference in Atlanta, GA on April 28, 2014. The Technology Division conducted a panel discussing "Trends in Planning Technology".

1. GeoSocial:
Making it Real
Trends in Planning Technology
APA National Planning Conference - 2014

2. Regulatory Framework
Evidence Consultation
Deliberation Outcome

4. Anonymity breeds Contempt

5. Facebook estimates that between 5.5% and 11.2% of accounts are fake
3 February '14
Last week, during its fourth-quarter earnings report, Facebook revealed it had 1.23 billion monthly
active users, 757 million daily active users, 945 million monthly active mobile users, and 556 million daily
active mobile users. In its 10-K filing published on the weekend, the company estimated that in 2013,
between 5.5 percent and 11.2 percent of these users were fake. Putting those numbers together, Facebook
says at least 67.65 million fake accounts were used last month. That number can go as high as
137.76 million, if the company’s higher-end estimate is to be believed.
Twitter’s Very Real Fake Problem
April 15, 2014
A new report from Twopcharts reveals a massive problem with Twitter -- approximately 44% of its 974
million users have never tweeted. Moreover, 30% of Twitter's accounts (292 million users) have only
tweeted one to 10 times, while only 13% of all accounts (127 million) had tweeted over a hundred times.
Those dismal numbers paint a dramatically different picture from the 241 million "active" users that the
company claims.

6. Sentiment Analysis
Garbage in. Garbage out.

9. Geosocial - 2-sided Model

11. Open Data
Participants in the area are
notified of consultations in their
area, and encouraged to “connect”
with the topic.
Once a threshold of 25 participants
“connect”, an email is generated to
the Proponent advising them that
residents want to consult.
Proponents are notified that
their topic has been launched
on PlaceSpeak and that they
should “claim” their Topic.
If they do not do so
immediately, then a second
email will notify them when a
sufficient level of residents
express interest.

17. PlaceSpeak Contact
Telephone: 1-866-998-6977
Address:
PlaceSpeak Inc.
1005 Cypress Street
Vancouver, B.C.
CANADA V6J 3K5
info@placespeak.com www.placespeak.com
@placespeak www.facebook.com/PlaceSpeak