News & Exclusives

Love Surveys? Great, Read This!

Posted on February 21, 2019

Bang the Table's Engagement Manager, Megan Ruble teaches us how to use surveys more effectively. When I ask potential clients of Bang the Table what their current community engagement strategy is, the typical response is “Oh, we do surveys all the time!” to which I respond “Great! What else?” Sometimes they will follow up and say...

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,...

#ELGLBookClub Explanation

Posted on February 20, 2019

ELGL is hosting an #ELGLBookClub on March 5 at noon EST. Here's all the information about how you can participate! I want to participate! What should I do? Buy the book. Read the book. Listen to the GovLove episode with Andrew. Stay tuned for a blog post with draft questions for the discussion. Log on...

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...