Stay on TOP: Recruiting Young Talent

Posted on June 28, 2016

Editors note:  Welcome to the first installment of a new blog series from Seneca Systems CEO Chris Maddox.  You might remember him from other ELGL webinars and posts such as "4 Most Egregious Issues in Local Government Software Purchasing" and "Rewind: The 4-1-1 on Slack".  In this series he will be exploring how startups and...

Day Two at #WACities: Getting Your City Digital

Posted on June 23, 2016

The second session that ELGL cohosted today at AWC #WACities was called "Getting Your City Digital." We also recorded the session for a GovLove Live eposide, which will be published soon. Here's an overview of this session for ELGL members to consider as they plan their own local government conferences. Luke and Chris did a...

Day Two at #WACities: Black, White & Read All Over

Posted on June 23, 2016

My new favorite conference session to promote for local government organizations is to showcase newspaper and blog journalists and get their feedback on how local government can improve and strengthen media relations. Included below are the question areas that we asked for the #WACities panel, and here are the presentation slides. Please feel free to borrow this...

Say WA?! Reflections from Day One at #WACities

Posted on June 23, 2016

#WACities - Day One Day one of the Association of Washington Cities conference didn't disappoint. Here are some reflections and connections from the conference. First, Everett is adorable. There's a nice little downtown, and the conference facility is attached to the hockey stadium, so there's a very different feel here, to be mixing and mingling where normally...

Everett: Be Surprised

Posted on June 21, 2016

After a 5.5 hour drive north, I finally made it to Everett for the AWC conference! Everett selected "Everett: Be Surprised!" as their city slogan. Here's a key quote from their ec dev director about the slogan: "It just sounded better than 'Everett, it doesn't stink anymore,' " joked Lanie McMullin, the city's new economic...
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