This guest post is by Sarah Henricks. Two years ago, she attended the UNC Engaging Women Conference, and now she’s reflecting on that experience as we gear up for this year’s Engaging Women event. About UNC Engaging Women: This one-day event is designed for women interested in strengthening both their leadership skills and professional trajectory … Continued
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear ELGL members, What a week! This week we held our first ever membership meeting and board election, tentatively firmed up details for #ELGL18 (announcement coming soon), and moved our communications and planning platforms over to Slack and Trello, exclusively. It definitely feels like ELGL is growing up, from a small start-up to a more … Continued
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This guest post is by Milissa Reierson, the communications manager for Franklin, Tennessee. [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8x1Iz9DvE” el_width=”80″ align=”center”][vc_column_text]The City of Franklin, Tennessee, population 76,000, recently held their annual state of the City event, but it wasn’t a boring facts and figures presentation. Each year the Mayor, Dr. Ken Moore, works with his Communications team to make this presentation … Continued
This guest post is by Fate, TX city manager Michael Kovacs. H/T to ELGL member Justin Weiss for connecting ELGL with this interesting blog by Michael! If you’re a sports fan, especially a baseball fan, you’ve probably seen the movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt. It’s the true-to-life story of the Oakland A’s and how manager Billy … Continued
ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt (LinkedIn & Twitter) is bloggin’ about those things that make you Laugh, Cry, and Think. Saturday, June 24 It’s a great day to be alive. The sun is out in Portland. Temps are creeping near 100 degrees. The base tan is building. Michael Jordan is hot for a beer. If you … Continued
This is Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. Alright, let’s go… What I Read Elephant in the Planning Room by Giovania Tiarachristie Even though it might spoil an upcoming GovLove episode I have to share this report from Giovania Tiarachristie, who is a neighborhood planner at … Continued
This is a guest blog post by ELGL member Ed Krafcik with Soofa. In this post, he writes about how Soofa helped measure the crowd attendance during the 2017 Boston Marathon. “If we want to make agile cities, we need to know what works and what doesn’t. Data collection allows us to reflect in real-time … Continued
Michael Lawson Special Projects Manager City of Aurora, CO LinkedIn . The Intern Files is back, this time Madison Thesing interviews Michael Lawson from the City of Aurora, Colorado. Michael leads the city’s special projects office and he discussed how Aurora is taking a new approach to hiring, on-boarding and culture. The “Shift” program … Continued
We hope you can deal with change because we’re changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as “the best ever.” From now on, we’ll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the … Continued
Bylaws – Adopted Amendments – May 2017 ARTICLE 1 Name The name of this organization shall be Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL). ARTICLE 2 Network Area The area of this organization shall be international. ARTICLE 3 Purpose The purpose of ELGL is to connect, communicate, and educate about local government. The organization, being organized and operated exclusively … Continued
