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Podcast: Designing Effective Interview Questions and Hiring Processes with Benjamin Mead-Harvey

Benjamin Mead-Harvey Adjunct Instructor University of Illinois, School of Information Sciences Bio | LinkedIn Get a little better every week. Benjamin Mead-Harvey, Adjunct Instructor for the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, joined the podcast to discuss interview processes and reducing bias in hiring. He discussed types of interview questions including behavioral and situational … Continued

Webinar Rewind: How One City Engaged 40% of its Population & Saved $100,000

 Originally aired June 10, 2021. Twelve months after implementing its new community engagement app, the City of Sandefjord with a population of 62,000 saw 28,000 downloads, 3000 – 8,000 daily users, and 15,000 monthly active users for context.  Learn about how they implemented this application to personalize news from the city and local media … Continued

Podcast: Management & Neighborhood Engagement with Cynthia Barber, Tallahassee, FL

Cynthia Barber Deputy City Manager City of Tallahassee, Florida LinkedIn | Facebook Making a difference. Cynthia Barber, Deputy City Manager for the City of Tallahassee, Florida, joined the podcast to discuss infrastructure projects and how the City involves the community through their Neighborhood First program. She shared how Tallahassee earned LEED certification and how hurricane plans … Continued

Local Gov Made My Bad Day Better

Today’s Morning Buzz is by civic dreamer and doer Sarah Moss, MPA. She is a strategist based in Denver who helps clients solve policy and political puzzles across the United States. Connect on LinkedIn and Twitter and read her past ELGL posts. What I’m Reading: Behavioral science to help state and local government with COVID-19 … Continued

What Spurs Economic Development?

This article was written by Rachel Witt, Executive Director of the South Grand Community Improvement District. Read all the articles in Rachel’s Lessons & Partnerships in Community & Economic Development series. Economic development does not begin with what new business hub you can bring to your community, but how the town enables its residents to … Continued

Free Trial: Zencity

ELGL’s friends at Zencity are offering a free trial of their online platform. Learn more below, and sign up today! Benefits include: Access to ongoing resident input, 24/7 Understand what your residents are discussing and what they care about most with our ongoing, automatic collection and analysis of your residents’ online conversations Customized project dashboards … Continued

Webinar Rewind: Gathering Community Feedback on Short-Term Rentals

Originally aired June 9, 2021, as part of our ELGL + Host Compliance/Granicus Short Term Rentals Series. While getting an accurate representation of community sentiment can be difficult, resident feedback is a critical part of the short-term rental regulation process. Join us to learn about best practices for community engagement around short-term rentals and how … Continued

The Best Time To Build Housing

Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: Clips from “This Old House” on YouTube What I’m reading: Your Computer Is On Fire, about the death of techno-utopianism, and starting to uncover the biases built into computing structures What I’m listening to: Nirvana – Breed … classic & perfect for 30 years now.  As a suburban … Continued

The Kids are Alright

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Lacey Dykgraaf, Community Engagement Specialist for the City of Newberg. Connect with Lacey on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: Case studies for my Strategic Management class What I’m Watching: A whole lot of HGTV What I’m Listening to: Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR album. 18-year-old me has demanded it stays on repeat. I feel … Continued

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