Our webinar from last week with Williamson County, Texas on using technology to improve transparency is available to watch or re-watch. Learn from this great case study on how rapid growth, tight budgets and technology all collide. Technology & Transparency Thank you to Mo’Mix solutions for co-hosting this webinar with David Dukes the Assistant Financial … Continued
Welcome to week #4 of the Cookingham Connection. Today, we hear from Ashley Graff. On Friday, we learned about guidepost #4 from Cal Horton. Ms. Graff serves as an Economic Development Specialist at the City of Gresham, Oregon and works to recruit and retain traded-sector industrial businesses. Prior to this role, she earned her Master of Public Administration … Continued
Reading Emily Badger’s article on How Texting Actually Changes the Way We Walk gave me quite a laugh. I see this every day and often fall (not yet literally) victim to this myself. What gave me an even bigger chuckle was remembering a story about distracted pedestrians from a few years ago. Star Wars Episode … Continued
In three minutes, two lives change forever Join the ELGL community as we talk about the issues resulting from the police shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The conversation start Friday, August 22 at 10:00 a.m (PST). We’ll be using #ELGLFerguson. Interesting in helping ELGL develop some lead-off questions for the … Continued
Super cool! ELGL photographer David Nguyen captured some awesome photos of “Portlandia” filming outside of Portland City Hall. Here’s a sneak preview of his photos. Like what you see? David is available for contract work, and he specializes in local government special events (he does rad work for ELGL and the City of Beaverton). Here’s David’s contact … Continued
Today we hear from #ELGL14 planning committee member Janice D’Aloia on restaurant recommendations for #ELGL14! Janice works fro Mo’mix Solutions, which offers cloud based reporting, visualization, and performance management solutions for government and education. Whether you’re coming in from out of town, or live locally, attending ELGL’s Annual Conference on October 17 is a great … Continued
You asked – we responded – two year memberships in ELGL are now available! Click here to purchase a two year membership. Here’s the backstory: Pierce County Communications Director (and City of Fircrest City Councilor) Hunter George asked us if memberships could be purchased for two-year spans. Makes sense from a municipal budgeting perspective, and … Continued
College football season starts in just 11 short days from now. Usually the start of the season means back-to-school and coming to terms with summer coming to an end. Summer and fall are my two favorite seasons though, so that mid to late-september switch is never too hard on me. I usually only get upset … Continued
Background Check Connect: LinkedIn Cheryl is an administrative analyst for the City of Palmdale (CA). She was named Employee of the Year for Palmdale Public Works in 2006 and Public Safety Practitioner of the Year in 2013. In her current role, Cheryl is responsible for management level duties over staff – both direct and indirectly managed staff and … Continued
The 5th most downloaded (paid) iPhone game of 2013 according to Apple’s “Best of” list was game called Plague Inc. The basic premise of the game is to create and spread a pathogen and infect all 7 billion of Earth’s inhabitants before they can produce a cure. The challenge is picking the plague type, method … Continued
