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Today’s Morning Buzz is brought to you by Christopher Leonard, Administrative Supervisor for the City of Fort Lauderdale. You can connect with him via LinkedIn What I’m Listening To: Meditation Station What I’m Watching: Watching the new Spiderman this week What I’m Reading: Enjoy reading shares about generosity and community engagement. While COVID-19 impacts were undeniably challenging...

#9 - John Metro

John Metro City of Jersey City, NJ Business Administrator LinkedIn | Twitter Knowledgeable, Innovative, Efficient John Metro deserves to be on the 2021 Traeger list not only due to the office he holds in one of the State's largest municipalities, but his commitment to the improvement of the lives of all Jersey City residents. John...

#11 - Michael Halford

Michael Halford Guilford County, NC County Manager LinkedIn | Twitter Resilient, Thoughtful, Collaborative Michael Halford is, and has been for many years, a dedicated and compassionate change leader for North Carolina local government. Michael does not shy away from difficult or complex conversations but instead embraces them because he understands that it is a necessary...

#24 - Brianna Sunryd

Brianna Sunryd Amherst, MA Communications Manager & Community Participation Officer LinkedIn | Twitter Helpful, Kind, Smart Brianna is a rock star! Everything she touches becomes better because of her experience and perspective. She is focused on community engagement and finding new ways to bring all voices into community conversations. She is gifted user of communications...

Growing Your Public Agency's Brand on Social is About More Than a Logo

Today's Morning Buzz is by Warren Kagarise, digital engagement manager for King County, WA. Connect on Linkedin, Twitter and Instagram. What I'm Reading: "The Overstory," a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on the secret life of trees and humankind's relationship with the natural world. What I'm Watching: "Succession," a dysfunctional dynasty saga for our modern Gilded Age. What...

Living When Things Suck

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Lacey Dykgraaf, Community Engagement Manager for the City of Newberg. Connect with Lacey on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. (But I also just finished the There Will Come a Darkness trilogy by Katy Rose Pool and I'm telling everyone about it because...

A Big Job

Today’s Buzz is by Meredith Reynolds, Deputy City Manager for Recovery for the City of Long Beach. Follow Meredith on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.  What I’m Listening To: Sir Rosevelt, Zac Brown’s side project, which sounds like country meets EDM What I’m Watching: Ted Lasso and Only Murders In The Building (a trio of Steve...

Silly Season, What Candidates Promise, and What Staff Can Deliver

Today's Buzz is by Meredith Trimble, Content Manager, Editorial, with Tyler Technologies, Inc., and former Acting Chair, Farmington, CT Town Council (Twitter, LinkedIn) What I'm reading: The Salt Path, by Raynor Winn What I'm watching: All the Halloween things! Especially the Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship and Halloween Wars What I'm listening to: NPR's Fresh...

Purpose-Driven Strategic Plans: How the “Great Resignation” is an Opportunity for Local Government to Create Purpose for Employees

Today’s Buzz is by Greg Stopka (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m watching: The Good Place on Netflix What I am listening to: Roundtrip music in the car What I’m doing:  Vacationing in Northern MI The “Great Resignation” has led to discussions amongst local government leaders about why workers are leaving and how to keep them....

Podcast: Past & Future of Transparency with Tom Spengler, Rock Solid Technologies

Tom Spengler Chief Executive Officer Rock Solid Technologies LinkedIn | Twitter Resident-centric government. Tom Spengler, Chief Executive Officer of Rock Solid Technologies, joined the podcast to discuss how local governments use technology to improve access and transparency. He talked about his time leading Granicus and the early days of getting organizations to stream and archive...

Living in Multiple Emotions at Once

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Lacey Dykgraaf, Community Engagement Manager for the City of Newberg. Connect with Lacey on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan What I’m Watching: Every season of Taskmaster What I’m Listening to: Today? Broadway Musical soundtracks. Yesterday, AJR’s OK ORCHESTRA Album. Tomorrow, probably a D&D Podcast. @rodWe really yeeted...

Podcast: Preemption & Taxation with Alexandria Zhang, Pew Research Center

Alexandria Zhang Research Officer Pew Research Center LinkedIn How states can help localities improve budget flexibility. Alexandria Zhang, a Research Officer at the Pew Research Center, joined the podcast to talk about her research on local tax limitations. She shared how limits on local government revenue imposed by state governments affect localities. She also makes...

Podcast: Resilience & Sustainability with Sarah Hazel, Charlotte, NC

Sarah Hazel Chief Sustainability & Resiliency Officer City of Charlotte, NC LinkedIn | Twitter Resilient Queen City. Sarah Hazel, the Chief Sustainability & Resiliency Officer for the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, joined the podcast to talk about how the City is working to be more environmentally sustainable. She discussed the City's Strategic Energy Action...

Podcast: Building Socially Connected Communities with Oswaldo Mestre & Risa Wilkerson

 Oswaldo Mestre Chief Service Officer & Director of Citizen Services City of Buffalo, NY Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Risa Wilkerson Executive Director Healthy Places by Design Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Solutions for social isolation. Oswaldo Mestre, Chief Service Officer & Director of Citizen Services for the City of Buffalo, NY, and Risa Wilkerson, Executive Director of Healthy...

10 Local Government YouTube Channels That Know What They Are Doing

YouTube is a place where cities can showcase all sorts of community information. What makes a local government YouTube channel great?

Webinar Rewind: How One City Engaged 40% of its Population & Saved $100,000

 Originally aired June 10, 2021. Twelve months after implementing its new community engagement app, the City of Sandefjord with a population of 62,000 saw 28,000 downloads, 3000 – 8,000 daily users, and 15,000 monthly active users for context.  Learn about how they implemented this application to personalize news from the city and local media...

The Kids are Alright

Today’s Morning Buzz is by Lacey Dykgraaf, Community Engagement Specialist for the City of Newberg. Connect with Lacey on LinkedIn or Twitter. What I’m Reading: Case studies for my Strategic Management class What I’m Watching: A whole lot of HGTV What I’m Listening to: Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR album. 18-year-old me has demanded it stays on repeat. I feel...

Podcast: Truth and Reconciliation with Gina Peebles, Alachua County, FL

Gina Peebles Assistant County Manager - Chief of Staff Alachua County, Florida LinkedIn | Twitter A path forward. Gina Peebles, Chief of Staff for Alachua County, Florida, joined the podcast to discuss Alachua County's truth and reconciliation initiative. This work was driven by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) museum and memorial for lynching victims. Gina...

Podcast: Mobility & Equity with Charles T. Brown, Equitable Cities

Charles T. Brown Founder & CEO, Equitable Cities Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University LinkedIn | Twitter Arrested mobility. Charles T. Brown, the Founder & CEO of Equitable Cities and Professor of Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University, joined the podcast to talk about the connection between mobility and equity. He discussed the concept of arrested...

Go Forth and Facilitate

This Morning Buzz is brought to you by Ariana Adame, Planning Manager. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Website. What I'm Reading: Dare to Lead, Brene Brown   What I'm Re-Watching: The Soprano's   What I'm Listening To: Butter by BTS (I live with a teen and a pre-teen) Have you ever explained what...

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