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ELGL19 Session: Innovation by Partnership - Civic Tech & Local Government

Time: 2:00 pm Thursday, May 16 Location: Morris Street Hallway, Room #2 Breakout: Innovation by Partnership - Civic Tech & Local Government Create public-private partnerships between your city and local startup community. Civic tech and local government have come together to introduce new ideas in both the City of Pittsburgh, PA and the Town of...

App for That! Native Mobile is a Civic Tech Foregone Conclusion

Guest post brought to you by CitySourced CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is an enterprise platform that provides governments with a complete native mobile app for residents to communicate with every department of their community: Mobile | Web | 311 | CRM. tl;dr Native apps, which can better access device capabilities and enhance user experience, outperform other apps. The push to...

#ELGL19 Hotel

We have three hotel choices for you in Durham for #ELGL19: Aloft Downtown Durham Start Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 End Date: Friday, May 17, 2019 Last Day to Book: April 15, 2019 Aloft Durham Downtown - $139/night Click here to book the ELGL group rate Durham Residence Inn Start Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019...

Webinar: Citizen-Friendly Reporting

Webinar: Citizen-Friendly Reporting Friday, February 15, 2019 10:00 a.m. MST Register today! Learn from Brent Stockwell and Mikayla Cutlip about how the City of Scottsdale uses data to engage and inform community members. This webinar is free for ELGL members and will be recorded for on-demand viewing in the ELGL Webinar Library! Register for the webinar!

Court Scrutiny of Anti-Camping Laws

David Warner is a local government and land use attorney with Ancel Glink in Chicago. Oakland, California’s latest attempt to provide temporary housing for homeless residents through its Community Cabin program reflects the growing quandary western cities face as they attempt to comply with federal court decisions requiring communities to do more for the homeless. The program, promoted...

County Official's Facebook Page a "Public Forum"

This guest blog is by ELGL member Julie Tappendorf and originally appeared on the Municipal Minute blog, which is authored by the attorneys at Ancel Glink. In August of 2017, we reported on a case out of Virginia involving a claim of First Amendment violations against an elected official who had deleted critical posts and blocked a poster...

Podcast: The Business Case for Employee Engagement

Bob Lavigna Director Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement LinkedIn | Twitter Measuring employee engagement. Bob Lavigna the Director of the Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement at CPS HR joined the podcast to talk about why organizations should take employee engagement seriously. He argues that there is a business case to keeping employees engaged at...

ELGL19 Keynote: Getting the Work Done, Innovation in Government

Keynote: Getting the Work Done, Innovation in Government with Hana Schank "You are part of a wonderful, frustrating, thrilling, hair-pulling moment in time. Whether it seems like it or not, you are doing good work, and you are part of a national cadre of people who are right there with you, whether you know them or...

Take the Time... to Make it Brief

This guest blog is by ELGL member Mike Skibbe, the Deputy Director of Public Works (and self-proclaimed Jenga champ) and 2018 Clarity Award winner from the Village of Buffalo Grove, IL. As recipients of the Management Innovation Award from APWA Lake Branch, I recently created a five minute presentation to celebration five years of hard work integrating...

Creative & Consistent Resources for Boards & Commissions

This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. In our work of planning and shaping cities, we can’t do it alone. The boards and commissions comprised of citizens who volunteer their time to hear presentations...

ELGL19 Session: Actually Accomplishing Your Strategic Plan

Time: 10:45 am Thursday, May 16 Location: Foster Street Hallway, Room #1 Breakout: Actually Accomplishing Your Strategic Plan It’s about to get real! Come join us in this session to talk about how real communities, with real people, are really implementing their strategic initiatives and demonstrating results through performance. Implementation can be a challenge. But it...

Show Me the Data!

By Brandi Leos, Senior HR Business Partner at City of Tigard, Oregon What I’m reading: Becoming by Michelle Obama What I’m listening to: The Daily podcast What I’m watching: The final season of Fixer Upper My favorite government job before I got into human resources was as a management analyst with a large state agency. ...

Employee Retention: What You Need to Know (Part II)

This guest blog is by ELGL member Melissa Asher, the Director of Training and Recruitment for CPS HR Consulting (full bio below). Read Part I of this post! Training and Development This brings us to strategy four – training and development. This has emerged as a huge retention factor for today’s workforce. Employees recognize the need...

Dec 2018-Jan 2019 All-In & Supersize Members

The following organizations joined ELGL with an All-In or Supersize membership this month. This means that they can add up to 10 (All-In) or 20 (Supersize) staff members to their ELGL membership accounts, and they get free unlimited job postings for the year! Your organization can join too - just sign up here to get...

Cultivating a More Resilient & Responsive Government

This blog was co-created by ELGL members Lawrence Grodeska and judi lynn brown with input from the rest of the CivicMakers team, and is cross-posted from the CivicMakers site. The govtech movement holds great promise, but is hindered by a glaring blindspot — the assumption that technology alone will solve our public problems, without considering either the...

What's Next?

What I am watching: The West Wing What I am listening to: local news coverage of another incoming snowmaggedon What I am reading: Final copy of Mayor's State of the City address When a larger than expected snowstorm arrived this past weekend, and as a result southwest Ohio panicked like we'd never seen snow before...

ELGL19 Session: Improving Opportunities for Justice-Involved Residents

Time: 2:00 pm Thursday, May 16 Location: Foster Street Hallway, Room #1 Breakout: Case Study - Improving Opportunities for Justice-Involved Residents in Durham, NC A team inside the City of Durham, North Carolina is tackling one of the biggest issues that cities face, improving the economic opportunity for residents impacted by the justice system. From interviewing...

Employee Retention: What You Need to Know (Part I)

This guest blog is by ELGL member Melissa Asher, the Director of Training and Recruitment for CPS HR Consulting (full bio below). Two years ago no one was talking about retention in the public sector. Sure, we were collecting and reporting on turnover metrics, but retention wasn’t a big concern. In fact, during and after the...

"Thank U, Next" & the Local Gov Professional

What I am watching: Monty Python and the Holy Grail...again What I am listening to: I'll give you one hint...keep reading What I am reading: The "Color of Magic" by Terry Pratchett Since the beginning of 2019, I’ve had one song on repeat: Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next.” It's not the typical type of music I listen to,...

App for That! Five Ways to Reinvent Your Citizen Experience

Guest post, brought to you by CitySourced CitySourced (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is an enterprise platform that provides governments with a complete native mobile app for residents to communicate with every department of their community: Mobile | Web | 311 | CRM. Citizens are central to your government’s mission and operations, and so whether you call it customer experience or...