Category: Morning Buzz

“Due to patriarchy, I am behind in emails” : Supporting Families at Work

Today’s Buzz is by Stephanie Chase — connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter What I’m Reading: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson What I’m Watching: Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You When I’m Not Reading: Let’s be honest: playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons.     Recently, Khara Jabola-Carolus’ out-of-office statement made waves on … Continued

Making it Rain With Relief Funding

Today’s Buzz is brought to you by Jennifer Casey, Public Information Officer for the Town of Collierville, TN. @ me: Twitter & LinkedIn. What I’m Reading: Little Fires Everywhere What I’m Listening to: An Oral History of the Office What I’m Watching: Brooklyn Nine-Nine I have big COVID CARES Act dreams for my communications department. In fact, I … Continued

There is TEAM in COVID-19

This post is brought to you by Nina Vetter – Find me here! What I’m watching: Brooklyn Nine-Nine reruns because that humor is what I need right now What I’m reading: The Splendid and the Vile, because we can always learn from history In local government, we rely on teams to function every day. I’m sure … Continued

You Literally, Need to Read This

Today’s Buzz is by Samantha Roberts– connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter! What I’m working on outside of work:  Discipline in exercise and how I spend my time! (read: not on instagram) What I’m looking forward to: Swimming with my kids this weekend My next big goal: Unrelated to work, I think we’re finally going to pull the plug … Continued

Top 20 Reasons #localgov Leaders are Inspired to Say WTF

Today’s Buzzsatire is brought to you by Sarah E. O’Brien | Community Whisperer @ Collaborative Development Collective (Facebook, LinkedIn) What I am reading: Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland  by Jonathan M. Metzel What I am listening to: Ten Percent Happier Podcast:  The Case for “Doing Nothing “in a … Continued

End the Public Meeting as We Know It

Right Now with Warren Kagarise (Linkedin/Twitter/Instagram) What I’m watching: Cartoon Network’s droll, empathetic “Steven Universe” — a planet-saving palate cleanser after long days spent on COVID-19 communications. What I’m reading: “Scoop” by Evelyn Waugh, a cutting 1938 novel about pre-social-media influencers gone awry. I watched, with a mixture of fascination and horror, as speaker after … Continued

Blind Spots

Today’s Morning Buzz is brought to you by Dr. Sarah Martin, VP of Health Solutions at mySidewalk. Connect with her on Twitter @DrSarahMarie. What I’m Watching: We just finished Alone: The Arctic. Highly recommend if you love loneliness, survival and a combination of reality competition and wild game. What I’m Reading: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett … Continued

Class is Now in Session

Today’s Buzz is by Brianna Lennon — connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn. Remember going to conferences? Those semi-annual meetings to commiserate about challenges in our fields, learn from each other, and catch up with friends…in person? In the era of COVID-19, hard pass. The pandemic has affected everything from election administration to budget planning, and it … Continued

A Contrarian View on Social Media

Today’s Buzz is by Tim Gomez– connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter! What I am watching:  IT Chapter 2 What I am listening to: 80s Rock Music Playlist What I am reading: Snowblind by Christopher Golden The internet, and social media by extension, is one of the most important and pervasive inventions in our lifetime.  The amount of information that … Continued

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