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#ELGL15: Twittersation Results

#ELGL15 Planning Committee members Kylie Bayer-Fertterer and Jahmai Cherry are blogging for ELGL as we lead up to our annual conference on October 23.  Today, Kylie shares with us some of the conference ideas that resulted from the #ELGL15 Twitter conversation.

Join ELGL at the Women’s Legacy Conference on May 15

A crucial strategy for the nascent #13percent movement is to identify and encourage the next generation of women leaders. With that in mind, we hope you’ll join us at the Women’s Legacy Conference on May 15 in Naperville, Illinois.

360 Review with Josh Schoemann, Washington County, WI

We’re going to evaluate every single inch of the local government arena by talking to ourselves (a.k.a: other local government professionals), tech companies, journalists, professors, and anyone else who hasn’t blocked our email address. Joshua Schoemann (LinkedIn and Twitter) is the County Administrator for Washington County. Prior to his position as the Washington County Administrator, Josh … Continued

#13Percent: Passing the Buck Article Lands On Route Fify

The debut of the revamped local government news outlet, Route Fifty saw the appearance of a new #13Percent article from Kirsten Wyatt, City of West Linn, OR. What’s Route Fifty? Here’s what you need to know – The Rest of the Story on Route Fifty with Michael Grass.

#13Percent Memes

Let’s spend a lazy Saturday morning making some more #13Percent memes.  Here’s a handy link; tweet your creations to @ELGL50 and we’ll send some cool ELGL swag to today’s favorites.

What I Am with Thom Venegoni, City of San Francisco, CA

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: Your Data Disasters?

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, produced by the VOLSTA Media Network, and syndicated on ELGL.org.

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