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Podcast: Smart Cities with Kate Garman, Seattle, WA

Posted on January 16, 2018

Kate Garman Smart City Coordinator Seattle, Washington LinkedIn | Twitter The first Smart City Coordinator for the City of Seattle, Washington, Kate Garman, joined GovLove to talk about her role and her thoughts on tech and local government. Kate revealed what a day in her job is like, what makes a city “smart” and what...

Podcast: Serving with Your Whole Heart in the City of Little Rock, AR

Posted on November 10, 2017

Innovation, performance and public service in Little Rock. Two people from the City of Little Rock, AR join GovLove to talk about their work. Melissa Bridges, Performance & Innovation Coordinator, and Susan Langley, City Clerk, discuss the Commodores, their career paths and a cross-departmental quality of life group. Topics: Lighting round (2:30), how children impacted...

Mutual Aid for Government Websites During a Disaster

Posted on October 30, 2017

By Rebecca Woodbury & Talia Smith, City of San Rafael When a major disaster strikes a region, they need help in more ways than one. After an unprecedented number of wildfires recently broke out in neighboring counties to the north, our jurisdiction, the City of San Rafael, immediately sent our first responders to help fight the fires and...

Podcast: Innovation Doesn’t Have to be Fancy with Sam Edelstein & Brendan Babb

Posted on October 20, 2017

Sam Edelstein Chief Data Officer City of Syracuse, NY LinkedIn | Twitter Brendan Babb Chief Innovation Officer City of Anchorage, AK LinkedIn | Twitter Open data and innovation from coast to coast. Brendan Babb, the Chief Innovation Officer of Anchorage, Alaska and Sam Edelstein, the Chief Data Officer of Syracuse, New York join GovLove....

Local Gov, HTTPS Website Security, & the Google Chrome October Deadline

Posted on September 27, 2017

This guest post is by ELGL Member & Proud City CEO Luke Fretwell. Luke is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity. Connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter and email at luke@proudcity.com. ‘Not Secure’: What government needs to know about HTTPS website security and the Google Chrome October deadline Protecting user privacy is an important aspect and duty of any public service organization, and...

ELGL Digital: Graduate Program Directory

Posted on September 14, 2017

ELGL Digital Work Group is back. Rolling out plans for another member exclusive benefit that will make your ELGL membership even more valuable. Last week we announced the piloting of the ELGL Digital Vendor Directory. Part Yelp/ part Jenny's List, the ELGL Digital Vendor Directory will not only connect you with the best vendors and...

ELGL Digital: Form Follows Function

Posted on September 5, 2017

In our most recent ELGL Digital Work Group, we continue to work out what is arguably ELGL's front door: the website homepage. This is our first impression to current and potential members, so it's important to put time into this element of the redesign. For a handful of us that work on the digital information...

ELGL Digital: The Reverse Mullet

Posted on August 18, 2017

This Digital Work Group update is by Kirsten Wyatt, ELGL's executive director. Our work continues on our digital upgrade with ProudCity! This week, we spent the entirety of our call talking about Information Architecture (or "IA" as the pros call it). We were talking specifically about the ELGL.org home page, and how information should be...

Launch 2017: Half Price Government Website Offer

Posted on August 17, 2017

This post is by ProudCity, which is currently helping ELGL with our digital upgrade. This process has been so informative and interesting for ELGL's growth, learning, and development, that we convinced ProudCity to offer a special deal for our members to guide them through the same process. You can learn more about our "Let's Get...