Link: ELGL Spreads Across the Country “Cross between The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed” Welcome to our new member feature. We’ve all heard the excuse “I’m too busy” so we’ve simplified our feature to illicit short, meaningful responses for our new members. As a side note, ELGL is adamantly opposed to the excuse, “I’m too busy.”
Civic Leaders Q2U is where we ask questions to you–the audience. Civic Leaders is an exclusive local government web-interview series hosted and operated by Springbrook Software, an Accela company, produced by the VOLSTA Media Network, and syndicated on ELGL.org.
Corner Office Confessions: I’m An Introvert By: Phil Smith-Hanes – LinkedIn and Twitter
By Graham Caulfield – LinkedIn, Twitter, and World Wide Web Each week Graham Caulfield, Expert Resume Man, will provide tips for improving your resume. Graham is an expert at helping career transitioners present themselves to their best advantage with potential employers.
Drum roll… Thursday, June 25 is the date for our first-official Michigan ELGL Meet-Up! So, mark your calendars please! Details for the Michigan ELGL event, dubbed “THE Evening Buzz” Time: Open event, 6 to 9 p.m. (though you’re welcome to stay longer!) Date: Thursday, June 25 Place: Lockhart’s BBQ: 202 E 3rd St, Royal Oak, MI 48067 RSVP: Bridget Doyle – … Continued
Rudy Owens, Tigard, OR Communications Strategist, reflects on a recent trip to his birthplace of Detroit. Read more from Rudy at I Wonder and Wander and What Beautiful Light.
Link: ELGL Spreads Across the Country “Cross between The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed” Welcome to our new member feature. We’ve all heard the excuse “I’m too busy” so we’ve simplified our feature to illicit short, meaningful responses for our new members. As a side note, ELGL is adamantly opposed to the excuse, “I’m too busy.”
Nifty Fifty Takeaways What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference through the public sector, and we hope … Continued
Kim Newcomer, Slate Communications, provides substance to the trendy, but often hollow, suggestion that local government needs to tell a better story.
ELGL is working with Governing to provide voices to the most relevant issues and trends in local government. Brittany Bennett, Self Help in Durham, NC, takes the microphone this month with her article, “Why Access to Healthy Food Belongs on Government’s Equity Agenda.“
