Potential Title Change? Consider “Keeper of Fire”

Posted on February 20, 2019

This post originally appeared on David Sewell McCann's LinkedIn account and is reprinted with permission. David is an ELGL member and was the keynote speaker at #ELGL18 in Golden, Colorado.  Breakfast in the Colorado Room. I sit at a round white-clothed table with the City Manager, Assistant City Manager and two senior analysts from Brighton,...

Dogfooding

Posted on February 15, 2019

This post is by ELGL Executive Director Kirsten Wyatt. ProudCity wrote this post about dogfooding and it inspired me to write an ELGL post about the topic. Here's a definition if you need it: “Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, occurs when an organization uses its own product. This can be a way...

Build Your Team; Get Out of the Way

Posted on February 15, 2019

This guest blog is by ELGL member Chris Floore. My proudest professional moment of the past year and a half wasn’t two successful hurricane response communication campaigns (we’re in Middle Georgia; this is not a weather event we expect) …it wasn’t increasing our communication reach by thousands of people…it wasn’t overcoming challenge after challenge in...