Financial Communications: Fairfax, VA Transportation Funding Wheel

Posted on November 2, 2017

This is a guest blog by Wendy Sanford the Transportation Director in the city of Fairfax, Virginia Public Works Department. Wendy and the city of Fairfax have received a lot of regional support for their two year transportation funding timeline, so ELGL asked her to write about her success developing this timeline. Have a cool financial...

App for That! Why Responsive Web Isn’t Enough

Posted on November 2, 2017

“There’s an App for That,” by CitySourced. CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is an enterprise platform that provides governments with a complete native mobile app for residents to communicate with every department of their community: Mobile | Web | 311 | CRM. What do Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and LinkedIn have in common? They all have incredible brand awareness, well known web...

The Sound of Finance

Posted on November 1, 2017

Rachel Zinn with the city of Baltimore, MD penned this local gov finance parody song and Phil Smith-Hanes knew it'd be a hit with ELGL. Just when you thought you hadn't heard enough songs about pivot tables, ELGL is here to help: But wait! There's more! Phil took a crack at his own set of...

#AmazonHQ2: How Data Can Help Amazon Find It’s Perfect Match

Posted on November 1, 2017

Unless you've been on a social media diet, if you're a place-lover or city-nerd, you knew last week was D-Day for cities vying for some Amazon love...and boy are cities chomping at the bit - 238 to be exact - all over, not only those in the U.S., but also plenty of contenders from our...

This Is Us: Lunch for 16

Posted on October 29, 2017

After spending last week at the ASAE conference, and then the ICMA conference, it dawned on me that the (short) history of ELGL should be recorded and shared. Why? Mainly to capture the story of ELGL, and also to share how our organization operates and how that's very different than most groups. Kent and I...