On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, George Hawkins and Andy Kricun joined ELGL for a webinar on water systems and COVID-19. Watch the video below, and also below please find follow-up materials from George and Andy’s presentation. Read George and Andy’s blog post titled “Coronavirus & Water: Immediate Action Required to Improve Resiliency Now & in … Continued
This guest blog is by Kimbra McCarthy, City Manager, and Chris Hsiung, Deputy Police Chief/Strategic Communications Team Lead, City of Mountain View, California There is typically a honeymoon period when an organization gets a new City Manager, with plenty of time to focus on relationship-building, active listening, and gathering feedback for what is working well … Continued
Please RSVP and join us on six learning and hangout sessions the week of March 23, 2020. An RSVP is required for each of these events: Local Water Systems & COVID-19 Tuesday, March 24, 2020 – 9:00am – 10:00am PT Virtual Hangout: Local Economic Impacts & COVID-19 Wednesday, March 25, 2020 – 8:00am – 9:00am … Continued
This blog post is by ELGL member Margaret Kostopulos and originally appeared on the Ancel Glink Workplace Report blog. Employers are scrambling to implement work-from-home policies to reduce their employees’ coronavirus exposure while still maintaining productivity. Where once resistant to most staff working from home, necessity has become the mother of invention. Until now, some … Continued
Sarah Martin Vice President of Health Solutions mySidewalk LinkedIn | Twitter Data science for public service. Sarah Martin, the Vice President of Health Solutions for mySidewalk and former Deputy Director of the Kansas City Health Department, joined the podcast to talk about the role of public health and responding to disease. She talked about the … Continued
This post is shared with ELGL by members George Hawkins & Andy Kricun. Originally published in WaterWorld. A public health expert told us to take precautionary measures that seem more protective than needed. Once an elevated level of protection is clearly necessary, it may well be too late. For most of us that means some … Continued
This webinar is hosted by Bang the Table: With Covid-19 concerns and more public gatherings being cancelled or postponed each day, we want to share a few tips and reminders that may prove useful during this time. This webinar will focus on: How you may use EngagementHQ to communicate about the situation itself by linking … Continued
This post is shared from our friends at PublicInput: Most days public engagement efforts tend to follow a regular cadence of chaos and downtime, but the arrival of COVID-19 is dramatically changing that, stretching every resource available. For many of you this crisis is unprecedented, as clear, consistent communication with your community is critical. Our … Continued
This information is included on ELGL’s crowdsourced local government resources page for COVID-19/Coronavirus information. Submitted by ELGL member Luke Fretwell, CEO of ProudCity and CivicActions. To support government teams quickly shifting to distributed/remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, CivicActions will host a free webinar – repeated daily the week of March 16 – to share best … Continued
ELGL hosted a virtual hangout at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, March 13, 2020. These are the notes and video from the call. Listen to the 3:00 p.m. call Please share resources and information from your local government at ELGL.org/COVID-19. Update from Amrinder Singh from Norristown, PA on their efforts: 830K residents in the county, and … Continued