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The Kids Are Alright: Quotes from Kids’ Flicks Local Government Didn’t Know It Needed

Posted on July 30, 2020

Today’s Buzz is brought to you by Maggie Jones - Connect on Twitter and LinkedIn! What I’m Reading: The Sun Magazine What I’m Listening to: Chill XM What I’m Watching: Tony Hawk’s MasterClass *** Like many parents, I’ve been doing the COVID work-from-home shuffle: good intentions paired with a healthy dose of “I’ll allow it,”...
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Making it Rain With Relief Funding

Posted on July 30, 2020

Today’s Buzz is brought to you by Jennifer Casey, Public Information Officer for the Town of Collierville, TN. @ me: Twitter & LinkedIn. What I’m Reading: Little Fires Everywhere What I’m Listening to: An Oral History of the Office What I’m Watching: Brooklyn Nine-Nine I have big COVID CARES Act dreams for my communications department. In fact, I...
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There is TEAM in COVID-19

Posted on July 27, 2020

This post is brought to you by Nina Vetter - Find me here! What I'm watching: Brooklyn Nine-Nine reruns because that humor is what I need right now What I'm reading: The Splendid and the Vile, because we can always learn from history In local government, we rely on teams to function every day. I'm sure...
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You Literally, Need to Read This

Posted on July 24, 2020

Today’s Buzz is by Samantha Roberts– connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter! What I'm working on outside of work:  Discipline in exercise and how I spend my time! (read: not on instagram) What I'm looking forward to: Swimming with my kids this weekend My next big goal: Unrelated to work, I think we're finally going to pull the plug...
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Top 20 Reasons #localgov Leaders are Inspired to Say WTF

Posted on July 22, 2020

Today's Buzzsatire is brought to you by Sarah E. O’Brien | Community Whisperer @ Collaborative Development Collective (Facebook, LinkedIn) What I am reading: Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland  by Jonathan M. Metzel What I am listening to: Ten Percent Happier Podcast:  The Case for "Doing Nothing "in a...
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End the Public Meeting as We Know It

Posted on July 21, 2020

Right Now with Warren Kagarise (Linkedin/Twitter/Instagram) What I'm watching: Cartoon Network's droll, empathetic "Steven Universe" — a planet-saving palate cleanser after long days spent on COVID-19 communications. What I'm reading: "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh, a cutting 1938 novel about pre-social-media influencers gone awry. I watched, with a mixture of fascination and horror, as speaker after...
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Blind Spots

Posted on July 17, 2020

Today's Morning Buzz is brought to you by Dr. Sarah Martin, VP of Health Solutions at mySidewalk. Connect with her on Twitter @DrSarahMarie. What I'm Watching: We just finished Alone: The Arctic. Highly recommend if you love loneliness, survival and a combination of reality competition and wild game. What I'm Reading: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett...
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Class is Now in Session

Posted on July 15, 2020

Today’s Buzz is by Brianna Lennon — connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn. Remember going to conferences? Those semi-annual meetings to commiserate about challenges in our fields, learn from each other, and catch up with friends...in person? In the era of COVID-19, hard pass. The pandemic has affected everything from election administration to budget planning, and it...
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A Contrarian View on Social Media

Posted on July 13, 2020

Today’s Buzz is by Tim Gomez– connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter! What I am watching:  IT Chapter 2 What I am listening to: 80s Rock Music Playlist What I am reading: Snowblind by Christopher Golden The internet, and social media by extension, is one of the most important and pervasive inventions in our lifetime.  The amount of information that...
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