GovLove Live: Year End Wrap Up Friday, December 23, 2016 Noon PST Twitter, Periscope, Facebook Live Kent, Kirsten and Ben will record a live edition of GovLove on Friday, December 23 at noon PST from ELGL headquarters. You can tune in on Facebook Live and Periscope. In addition to recapping the year, the GovLove hosts … Continued
The GovLove podcast is finishing 2016 with a bang. Here’s a look at a couple of upcoming episodes. Preparing for Emergencies in Local Government Paul Leonard, Township Manager, Upper Dublin Township, PA A coffee shop in Kansas City, MO – this isn’t the beginning of a romance novel, it’s how ELGL connected with Paul Leonard. … Continued
Welcome to the first ever local government swapcast! ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt interviews ArchiveSocial CEO Anil Chawla and Anil interviews Kent. In the first half of the podcast, you’ll learn about the creation of ArchiveSocial, the GovTech Social podcast, and if local government is embracing new technologies. We flip the script in the second half … Continued
Listen: iTunes Connect: Blog, LinkedIn, and Twitter ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt interviews George about: How the Cleveland native handled the Indians loss to the Cubs in the World Series, His celebrity look-alike, The Mt. Rushmore of public utilities, What you won’t find on his LinkedIn profile, Why Gabe Klein is jealous of George’s dance moves, How … Continued
The League of Women in Government is an exciting new group working to bring attention to the issue of gender equality in local government. Specifically they’ve focused on raising the percentage of women in chief administrative officer positions from 13 percent, the rate it was in 1984 and 2014. GovLove interviewed three leaders involved with … Continued
The return of Between Two Interns! It’s a new year with new interns and for their first episode they grill Anthony Hooper, the Public Works Director of Lake Oswego, OR. Our new interns, Ashley Sonoff and Madison Thesing, are both Local Government Management Fellows in the Portland, OR area. For the first part of the … Continued
The 2016 Election season is in the home stretch with contests at every level of government. We sat down with Promise King the Executive Director of the Oregon League of Minority Voters to talk about voter turnout, issues important to minority voters and more. Promise King LinkedIn | Website More Reading Oregon League of Minority … Continued
Update: “Best Halloween Costume by a Local Government Employee” – Check out our members only Facebook group to view the entries. Listen: iTunes and SoundCloud What would your town do if about 80,000 people descended upon it for a night? That isn’t a bad dream, it happened to the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina … Continued
ELGL did something pretty awesome last Friday, at six locations across the country over 550 local government administrators got together to learn and connect. For this episode organizers from each location join the podcast to talk about their favorite part of the day, the things that inspired them and more.
How does blocking or muting someone on Twitter affect free speech? Angela Greben has been doing research into precisely this topic. She has been filing records requests across the country to find out who elected officials and public Twitter accounts have been muting to find out if it impacts your first amendment right. Angela … Continued
