Month: June 2016

Trending Now! Finalist: City of Las Vegas, NV

Let’s meet our Trending Now! finalists. We started with the City of Hamilton, OH and City of Kansas City, MO, today we visit Las Vegas, NV.  Hat tip to Jennifer Davies for coordinating the city’s response. City of Las Vegas, NV Link: City of Las Vegas competing for social media award When you visit Las Vegas, you expect an … Continued

Trending Now! Finalist: City of Kansas City, MO

Let’s meet our Trending Now! finalists. We started with the City of Hamilton, OH, today we visit Kansas City, MO.  Hat tip to Mark Van Baale for coordinating the city’s response. The 4-1-1 on Kansas City, MO KC Biz Journal: Two metro cities make it to final four in social media competition From Mayor Sly James to the … Continued

Travels With Zoe: The Journey Ends

This is the fourth and last part of a multi-part series chronicling Zoe Monahan’s travels to the ICMA International Regional Summit. The last few days of my travels were full of study tours to community’s north and south of Prague as well as Bratislava, Slovakia. In northern Bohemia, we visited the City of Děčín. The City … Continued

Governing Magazine Equip to Innovate Lightning Round

Here are the slides from Kirsten Wyatt’s presentation (and the six other presenters in the pecha kucha style presentation) in Kentucky at the Governing Magazine Summit on Government Performance & Innovation. The Equip to Innovate(tm) Lightning Round: Governing’s Government Performance and Innovation Summit 2016 from Paul W. Taylor

Stay on TOP: Recruiting Young Talent

Editors note:  Welcome to the first installment of a new blog series from Seneca Systems CEO Chris Maddox.  You might remember him from other ELGL webinars and posts such as “4 Most Egregious Issues in Local Government Software Purchasing” and “Rewind: The 4-1-1 on Slack“.  In this series he will be exploring how startups and … Continued

Trending Now! Finalist: City of Hamilton, Ohio

Let’s meet our Trending Now! finalists starting with the City of Hamilton, OH. Hat tip to Adam Helms for coordinating the city’s response. The 4-1-1 on Hamilton Journal News: Hamilton advances to final four of a social media contest The digital front door to the city of Hamilton, OH (population of 62,447) is a very ungovernment-like website that … Continued

Reminder: New Fiscal Year’s Eve Party on June 30 in PDX

Let’s ring in FY 2017 together! Who: ELGL members, OCCMA members & OGFOA members What: A happy hour celebration to celebrate the start of the new fiscal year When: Thursday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m. Where: Lucky Lab – 1945 NW Quimby. Why: Let’s get together with our local government friends before the busy summer … Continued

Introducing the ELGL Supper Club Hosts

School is out. Supper Club is in. We’ve hosted a Supper Club in Portland and we’ve scheduled a Supper Club for San Mateo in August. These final folks named below have agreed to host a Supper Club in their area. If you have signed up to attend, you’ll be contacted soon. If you haven’t signed up … Continued

Fun Facts about Trending Now! Finalists

Since the Trending Now! award has been called the “Super Bowl of Local Government”, we feel obliged to follow the NFL’s lead by giving our finalists a week to rest from the rigors of online voting. We’ll highlight each finalist this week and launch the final voting on July 5. City of Hamilton, OH Hamilton advances … Continued

Data Download: Measures to Meaning – Part 3

Data Download: Measures to Meaning is a five part series by Kirsten Wyatt and Stacy Schweikhart about the recently released data on the numbers of women in local government management, as collected and distributed by ICMA. Part I: The Data Download Part II: Finding Meaning in the Measures Part III: Insights and Ideas Challenge Part … Continued

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