The Cap Times: Chad Vader voter ID video wins best municipal public service announcement The votes have been cast, the hanging chads have been ignored, and the first annual “Best Local Government Video” award has been revealed. On ELGL Live!, we revealed that Scott McDonell (Dane County, WI) and Chad Vader won the most prestigious award … Continued
What was your local government moment? What keeps you in local government? Who have been the influences in your career? We take a deep dive into these questions by asking you (the practitioner) to tell your local government story. You can sign up to participate in the bi-monthly feature at Finding Local Government. Thanks to Matt Wojnowski, City … Continued
Pictured above: Each Appycademy graduate received a sign with their last name. By: Chad Doran, City of Appleton, WI – Communications Coordinator Connect: LinkedIn and Twitter I love #CommunityEngagement. Just love it. A good day for me is one with a Facebook page full of notifications or emails responding to a story posted on the City … Continued
We’re celebrating Mother’s Day by recognizing a few of the incredible women who have contributed to ELGL. Local Gov Administering & Mothering by Charlotte Colley I knew I would come back to work. I didn’t want to stay home. Not because I didn’t love my baby but because I really like my local government career. … Continued
What’s it like to manage a parks system for over 8.5 million people? For this week’s episode we sat down with New York City Parks and Recreation Commissioner Mitchell Silver. He’s a planner with over 30 years of experience and took the helm of the big apple’s parks system in 2014 after serving as the … Continued
By Kirsten Wyatt, Executive Director & Co-Founder, ELGL May 5, 2016: Here’s a copy of today’s presentation. #MCMA16 was awesome – such a great group of people very motivated by public service. Except… for one guy. He took serious issue with the #13Percent concept, and the idea that women and people of color were underrepresented in … Continued
By: Chris Floore – LinkedIn and Twitter It’s amazing what a toddler and a box of cheerios can teach you. Eating healthy, math, using a spoon, how to diffuse a tantrum, your place in the world, the limits of your patience… But I was shocked one day when my little boy taught me something about … Continued
As part of the grueling ELGL initiation process, new members are asked to complete our version of the Wonderlic test. It’s an open book test and participants do not have to use a dull number 2 pencil to fill in tiny circles. Erin Loftus (LinkedIn) is a Selection Analyst for CODESP Public HR. Previously, she worked for … Continued
Trevor Minyard joined the City of McKinney as financial analyst in October 2013. Prior to joining the City of McKinney, Trevor worked in the financial affairs division of Dallas Baptist University (DBU) where he served as the assistant director of accounts receivable, and also managed various state and federal financial aid programs. Trevor has a … Continued
ELGL member Cari Anne Cashon (LinkedIn, Twitter, Web) is the author of a new fiction novel, “You Go Girl.” She is pursuing an MBA at Wichita State University full-time, with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. We asked Cari to share the motivation behind the book. Amazon: You Go Girl by Cari Anne Cashon I decided to write … Continued
