Two weeks in a row?!?! That’s right, ELGL Live! Returns for a second straight week. If you disobeyed our advice to participate in the interview with Michael Karlik, comedian and creator of City Council Chronicles, you can make things whole by listening to the recording. This Friday at 12:00 p.m EST/9:00 a.m. PST, ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt … Continued
This is the first part of a multi-part series chronicling Zoe Monahan’s travels to the ICMA International Regional Summit. My name is Zoe Monahan, Management Analyst II at the City of Tualatin, Oregon. I am visiting Prague this week to attend the ICMA International Regional Summit! Did you know that there is an international summit? This is … Continued
Everyone has a “hot take” these days from the talking heads at ESPN to political pundits filling the air on cable. ELGL cannot (and will not) be left out. We are asking new members to give us their hot takes on an array of issues. Stephanie Scafa City of Eugene, OR, Waste Prevention and Green Building … Continued
This is a tool in the ELGL Workforce Development Toolbox. WHAT: Performance “previews,” instead of “reviews. Addresses the idea that employees respond better to continuous feedback, instead of being evaluated only once per year. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: From the research and writing of Samuel Culbert. Culbert advocates performance previews instead of performance reviews. His book, Get Rid … Continued
This is a tool in the ELGL Civic Engagement Toolbox. WHO: Romulus WHAT: Online citizen response management tool CATEGORIES: Citizen response management Task workflow and routing Data analysis COST: Software as a service Pricing based per user, per month PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: Chicago, Illinois Oakland, Calif. Miami, Florida Boston, Mass. Columbus, Ohio Orlando, Florida Jersey City, … Continued
This is a tool in the ELGL Civic Engagement Toolbox. WHO: Bang The Table WHAT: Digital citizen engagement and participatory budgeting. CATEGORIES: Citizen engagement Participatory budgeting PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: Email us if your agency uses this civic engagement tool. TELL US YOUR STORIES: Email us your stories about this civic engagement tool. CONTACT INFORMATION: Matt Crozier, … Continued
By Kent Wyatt, ELGL Co-Founder Michael Karlik was today’s guest on ELGL Live!. Michael is a comedian and creator of City Council Chronicles. If you missed the live taping, we’ll release the interview as a GovLove podcast. You can listen to the Periscope recording here. Here are my takeaways from the interview. The celebrity that … Continued
This week we sat down with Appleton, WI’s communications coordinator, Chad Doran to discuss local government communications and citizen engagement. He lead the effort to create the city’s new “Appycademy” a citizens academy to learn more about city departments and services. We also discussed what it was like to start a communications effort at … Continued
ELGL organizational member Vision Internet is offering a free webinar “Content Strategy Playbook for Your Local Government Team” on July 21 at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT. Register now – go ahead, do it. The 4-1-1 Does your website content communicate effectively with residents or does it miss the mark? Do your team members … Continued
Unless your head has been buried in budget documents for the last month, you know that Michael Karlik, comedian and creator of City Council Chronicles, is appearing on ELGL Live! tomorrow at 11:00 a.m./EST and 8:00 a.m. PST. We’ll record the interview for a future GovLove podcast. ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt is the interviewer and he … Continued
