This guest blog is by ELGL member Jason Jones, a Data Trust Lead at BrightHive. Today is an exciting day for us at BrightHive. Earlier this morning, we released our first two Responsible Data Use Playbooks. We wrote these playbooks to help public and private sector leaders begin rapidly using and sharing data to increase … Continued
Today’s Morning Buzz is written by Jenny Kosek, Communications Strategist for the City of West Allis, WI. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter. What I’m Reading: Anton Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya” (I’m not that lofty, but I am going to be in the play this fall) What I’m Listening To: The Record Company, “All of This Life” … Continued
Last week we explored some overarching trends in the data. Since then, we welcomed 60 more municipalities into the Diversity Dashboard family! The end of August marks six months of data gathering. The ELGL team is exploring ways to garner more attention for the dashboard and combat the response lull phase that is all too … Continued
In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn, Performance Manager at District Department of Transportation, highlights three examples of data driven decision-making. A few hours before writing this I had just returned home from my first 12-hour shift of the year in Snow … Continued
ELGL appreciates the work of local government professionals, non-profits, and other organizations committed to increasing the use of open data in local government. Special props to What Works Cities and Code for America. Much of the good work is on display for Open Data Day 2017. Quite frankly, it’s appalling that more local governments have not … Continued
Register: The Year of Problem Solving with Data Thursday, March 3 Location: Oregon Zoo Admission is free. Registration includes lunch and zoo admission. Sponsored by Mo’ Mix and Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) Recent surveys show that the top local government challenges include a lack of accurate and complete performance data with which to make … Continued
Kent Wyatt – LinkedIn and Twitter – provides the latest in local government, pop culture, and random musings in this members-only post. March 17 Leaving on a Jet Plane A 3-year old. A 5-year old. Me. We’re all boarding a flight tomorrow for Raleigh, NC. My kids will be spending an extended weekend with the … Continued
Socrata Launches Apps Marketplace to Help Governments The 70’s had the free love movement, this decade has the open data movement. One of the leaders of that movement is Socrata. You may remember them from #ELGL14 – huge computer monitor, cool giveaways, and right by the pizza line. In case we didn’t get a chance … Continued
We take the last episode of the year to recognize our favorite episodes and interviews of 2017. GovLove hosts Kent Wyatt, Kirsten Wyatt and Ben Kittelson all handed out awards in different categories to their 15 favorite episodes. The episode also covered the most listened to episodes of the year and plans for 2018. … Continued
On Friday, December 22, Kent, Ben and Kirsten are doing a LIVE taping for the last episode of GovLove in 2017. They’ll be handing out awards in 16 categories. Tune in on ELGL’s Facebook page to watch live, or listen to the episode on December 29 to find out the winners: Tee Hee: Most Giggling … Continued
