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Weekly Update - 05.22.16

As many of you know, I left my job in West Linn for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I realized that West Linn was no longer providing me a platform to pursue a local government career I believed in. My personal career goal has always been simple: to do work where I can make the biggest...

MCMA Roundup: Nextdoor, Live Streaming, Customer Service

At last week's MCMA "Communications Roundtable," participants brought their most pressing local government communications issues to share and discuss. Here's a summary of those discussions, and some resources and tools that are available. Citywide Action Team (CAT) - New Brighton, Minnesota New Brighton city manager Dean Lotter shared the success of an internal staff committee...

ELGL & UTA Challenge: User's Guide to Creating #LocalGovSolutions

That's a wrap! Below is a summary of the 2015 ELGL & UTA Challenge. The collaboration was the first of its kind between ELGL and an academic institution. We look forward to building off its success with UTA and other academic institutions.  Background: ELGL issued the Local Government Challenge to Dr. Colleen Casey’s class of Ph.D candidates in the Department of...

#9: Social Side of City Hall

The revamped ELGL website received more than 300,000 views this year. Members and visitors were treated to a wide array of stories from the #13Percent to infrastructure to work/life balance. While some of you dropped by to visit the rapidly growing webinar library or check out the latest job postings. Our crack staff has sorted...

360 Review with Della Rucker, Managing Editor of EngagingCities

Who doesn’t love a good ol’ fashioned performance review? ELGL loves them so much that we’re embarking on a “360 Review of Local Government.” 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...

Final Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge

The ELGL/UTA Challenge has fostered  a whirlwind of new ideas to combat a key challenge in local government management- #CommunityEngagement. This challenge was a novel undertaking generated out of the collaboration between ELGL and UTA with an underlining mission of thinking bold and outside of the box. ELGL issued the Local Government Challenge to Dr. Colleen Casey’s class of Ph.D candidates in...

The Future Is Now with Shannah Hayley, City of Plano, TX

The ELGL and SGR Futures Forum debuts on December 4. Registration is free for ELGL members; $100 for non-members. Leading up to the forum, we’ll highlight the attendees. Here’s the guest list. Shannah Hayley (LinkedIn and Twitter) is the city of Plano’s director of marketing and community engagement. She has more than 20 years of experience...

#LocalGovSolutions: Getting Past Sparsely Attended Budget Meetings

In a continuing series as part of the ELGL & UTA Local Government Challenge, Kevin Amirehsani highlights trends in communicating financial information. By Kevin Amirehsani – Balancing Act and Engaged Public Outside of local government, civic engagement is usually taken to mean voting patterns, the presence of community groups (think “Bowling Alone”), and rather abstract mentions of “public...

Announcing the ELGL/SGR Futures Forum Lineup

Register: Futures Forum - FREE for ELGL Members   The ELGL & SGR Present The Futures Forum Breakfast (7:45 AM – 8:30 AM) - Starbucks and  iHeart Kolache Introductions (8:30 AM – 9:00 AM) Ron Holifield Citizen Input and Community Engagement (9:00 AM – 9:45 AM) Speakers:  Chris Hernandez, Communications Director, Kansas City, Missouri Break (9:45 AM...

The ELGL & SGR Present The Futures Forum

We are excited to announce the 1st Annual Futures Forum! A collaboration between Strategic Government Resources and Southwest ELGL. This one-day forum will feature topics like community engagement, workforce diversity, and succession planning. Registration is FREE for ELGL members and $100 for non-members. If you are not an ELGL member you can join here. Register: Futures Forum

Beyond the Logo...Tale of Two Cities

Kim Newcomer, Slate Communications, provides substance to the trendy, but often hollow, suggestion that local government needs to tell a better story. By Kim Newcomer – LinkedIn and Twitter Every new parent has that moment. The one where you look lovingly at your newborn child and think, “What the hell am I supposed to do with...

Progress Report: ELGL/UTA Local Government Challenge

In September, ELGL issued the the Local Government Challenge to Dr. Colleen Casey's class of Ph.D candidates in the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. The time has come to check in on their progress.   The Challenge: Each of the five teams will develop community engagement solutions for...

#LocalGovSolutions: Rolling Out a New Instagram Account in Plano, TX

In the Local Government Challenge, University of Texas-Arlington students will focus on developing effective approaches to community engagement. We’ll hear from practitioners over the next couple of months about what’s working for them. Stephen Tanner, City of Plano, TX, writes about the Instagram campaign, #LovePlano.  To help roll out the City of Plano's new Instagram account,...

5 Ways to Use Twitter Polls in Local Government

Our Australian correspondent Andrew Coulson returns to explain the usefulness of Twitter's new feature, the pool. By Andrew Coulson - Commsgodigital Let’s not beat around the bush but the announcement that Twitter is going to allow all its users access to its Twitter Poll function in its basic format is going to lead to a spike...

The City Planner Behind Parks and Rec

Matt Wojnowski interviews the local government consultant from ELGL’s favorite TV show, “Parks and Recreation." Also, check out the GovLove podcast episode with Gary/Jerry/Larry - Podcast: Jerry! Jim O'Heir from NBC's Parks & Rec. As the NBC TV series Parks and Recreation began, I wondered who the producers and writers were talking with in local government to make...

#LocalGovSolutions: You Decide! Participatory Budgeting

In the Local Government Challenge, University of Texas-Arlington students will focus on developing effective approaches to community engagement. We’ll hear from practitioners over the next couple of months about what’s working for them. Gareth Young is a local government officer in the UK and the co-founder and co-author of the www.welovelocalgovernment.com blog.  By Gareth Young -...

#ELGL15 Sponsor: The Novak Consulting Group

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We're pumped to announce another #ELGL15 sponsor: The Novak Consulting Group! Led by Julia Novak, The Novak Consulting Group (TNCG) fulfills their mission of strengthening organizations for those who they serve and the people who work in them by maintaining a flexible organization with decades of senior-level experience. TNCG provides a wealth of services for...

#LocalGovSolutions: Talk Is Cheap But Dialog Is Priceless

Shannah Hayley provides her contribution to the ELGL and University of Texas at Arlington Challenge. Shannah writes about community engagement which was one of the five issues facing local government as identified in our recent survey.     Talk is Cheap but Dialog is Priceless by Shannah Hayley, LinkedIn and Twitter Director of Marketing and Community Engagement, City of...

Introducing Local Government Solutions

In July, ELGL members ranked the top issues facing local government.  Colleen Casey's University of Texas-Arlington graduate course used the results to select an issue to focus on. (More on that later.) The top five issues identified were: Citizen Input, Community Engagement, Communication to constituents Solutions to Fund Infrastructure Succession Planning and Knowledge Transfer Workforce Diversity (Gender...

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