Category: COVID-19 Webinars & Podcasts

Rewind: Water Systems & COVID-19 Webinar

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

Building Your Strategic Communications Plan for COVID-19

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

COVID-19 Online Learning & Hangouts: Week of March 23, 2020

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

Creating Work at Home Policies (On the Fly)

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

Podcast: Public Health & COVID-19 Response with Sarah Martin, mySidewalk

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

Get the Word Out: Reaching Community Members With Confidence 

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

COVID-19: “Distributed Teams” Author Webinars on WFH & Remote Work

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

Notes from 3:00 p.m. COVID-19 Virtual Hangout

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

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