The number of nominations doubled in week two of #ELGLKnope nominations! Here are the Week 2 nominees for your review – do you see your favorite park on this list? Take a minute and submit your nomination today to ensure that your favorite park or open space makes the Round of 32 for the 2019 … Continued
This guest blog post is by ELGL member Rich McGeary. Government leaders and elected officials make a special commitment to the citizens they serve. These “customers” are their neighbors, their friends, their family members. Local government officials live where they work. Thus, commitments made in the heat of a political campaign are often more specific, … Continued
Learn from Brent Stockwell and Mikayla Cutlip about citizen-friendly reporting, and how the City of Scottsdale, AZ turned drab financial and other reports into engaging community building tools with a serious wow factor.
This post is by ELGL Executive Director Kirsten Wyatt. ProudCity wrote this post about dogfooding and it inspired me to write an ELGL post about the topic. Here’s a definition if you need it: “Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, occurs when an organization uses its own product. This can be a way … Continued
This guest blog is by ELGL member Chris Floore. My proudest professional moment of the past year and a half wasn’t two successful hurricane response communication campaigns (we’re in Middle Georgia; this is not a weather event we expect) …it wasn’t increasing our communication reach by thousands of people…it wasn’t overcoming challenge after challenge in … Continued
Morning Buzz with Jordan Rae Hillman, Deputy Director of City Planning for the city of Jackson, Mississippi Netflix released Tidying Up with Marie Kondo early this year. Now everyone is talking about decluttering, tidying, and organizing. Marie Kondo teaches that if you properly simplify and organize your home (and life) once, you’ll never have to do it … Continued
This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. The celebration of new – new year, new beginnings, new technology, new ideas – is part of human nature. We love to pursue and try the new. … Continued
James Wagner Chief Financial Officer Tulsa, OK LinkedIn | Twitter Finding innovative ideas with residents not just for them. Tulsa, Oklahoma has been empowering their residents to address longstanding or emerging civic challenges in partnership with city staff. James Wagner, the Chief Financial Officer and former Chief of Performance Strategies and Innovation, talked about their Urban … Continued
Time: 11:45 am Friday, May 17 Location: Durham Convention Center Ballroom Keynote: Mayors on Leading Cities & Driving Change Mayors across the country are leading communities that are grappling with wicked problems. They set a vision for where their city is going and set the tone for policy, discussion, and focus. Two mayors from different … Continued
The City of Little Rock is launching a new campaign with our neighborhood associations called Lights On. Lights On is a streetlight canvassing project aimed at giving our residents easy to use tools for systematically looking for streetlights in their neighborhoods that are out or blocked by vegetation. This project was the result of a strategic … Continued
