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Podcast: Somebody is Everybody with Pete Haga, Grand Forks, ND

Pete Haga City of Grand Forks, ND - Community/Government Relations Officer Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter 'Somebody is everybody': Grand Forks issuing call to action to fight opioids Talking community relations, battling the opioid epidemic and the Uber of food trucks, meet Pete Haga from the City of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Pete joins GovLove to discuss...

Weekly Update: Birthdays, Pop Ups, Facebook Live!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear ELGL members, A surprising number of people are surprised that Kent and I are married. Maybe it's just courtesy ("oh, you're MARRIED?") or maybe it's just a belief in coincidence that two people with the last name Wyatt who both live in Oregon happened to found a niche professional association for local government. Regardless,...

#DadLife: Celebrating Father's Day

Happy Father's Day! Read how ELGL members have been influenced by their dad. Podcast: Love & Community with Hyong Yi In this episode of GovLove we sat down with Assistant City Manager of Charlotte, NC and sock of the month club member, Hyong Yi. He shared his inspiring story of dealing with tragedy and finding...

Kittelson's Corner: Elephant in the Room

This is Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. This week I listened to Revisionist History, watched Master of None, read about the alt-right and recorded an awesome GovLove interview. Alright, let's go... What I Read Mayor Bill Bell Has Overseen a Bull City Renaissance. So...

The Best Ever with Jessica Johnson, City of Bozeman, MT

We hope you can deal with change because we're changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as "the best ever." From now on, we'll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the...

Podcast: Race & Diversity in the Planning Profession with Giovania Tiarachristie

Giovania Tiarachristie Neighborhood Planner, Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development City of New York, NY LinkedIn Giovania Tiarachristie argues that if planning was a room, the elephant in it would be race. Giovania is the author of an amazing report exploring the barriers to recruiting and retaining planners of color. In this episode she discusses her...

Changing Career Aspirations: The Perspective of a Dad

In the new series, "I Have to Ask You", our guest columnist responds to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. By Benjamin Bitter - LinkedIn and Twitter "No other success can compensate for failure in the home” ( J. E. McCulloch, Home: The Savior of Civilization [1924], 42). Like I'm sure many of...

How to Approach a Bureaucrat

This is the first installment of a new blog series by Mai-Ling Garcia about her adventures as the Online Engagement Manager for the city of Oakland, California. Follow Mai-Ling on Twitter and Facebook! Here's my advice to civic techies hoping to work with government: You are an entrepreneur. You have relentless enthusiasm for your technology...

(Tentative) Approved FY 2018 ELGL Budget

Yesterday, the ELGL Finance Committee reviewed and made tentative plans to approve a fiscal year 2018 budget. Their meeting is on Tuesday, June 20 at noon PDT at http://AnyMeeting.com/ELGL50 and it will also be recorded for electronic minutes. Please feel free to log on and listen in to their discussions and vote on the approved...

The Best Ever with Mekal Banyasz, Snohomish County, WA

We hope you can deal with change because we're changing up new member introductions. ELGL has grown tired of everyone and everything being proclaimed as "the best ever." From now on, we'll only believe it if our members dub it so. Hold onto your keyboard and mouse. Our new members are here to inform you about the...

Podcast: Jane's Walk Toronto with Alia Scanlon

Alia Scanlon City Organizer Jane's Walk Toronto Bio | LinkedIn | Jane's Walk Twitter The GovLove international team returns with the City Organizer of Jane's Walk Toronto, Alia Scanlon. She talks about the mission of Jane's Walk, an organization that puts on free, locally organized walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk...

Archiving Public Sector E-Communications

This guest post is by ELGL member Don DeLoach. Don has more than 32 years of state and local government involvement. He was the former Chief Information Systems Officer for the City of Tallahassee, and was responsible for all of the city’s technology needs. He is also a former president of the Florida Local Government Information Systems...

Update: 2017 Supper Club Season

RSVP for a Supper Club June 29: Portland, OR Supper Club July 7: Phoenix, AZ Supper Club Your last chance to participate in a 2017 Supper Club. It's guaranteed to be more fun than your family vacation. Up Next: 2017 Supper Club Season Host: I Want to Host Supper Club Guest: I Want to be a Supper...

(Updated) Survey Results: Are Vendor Halls Necessary?

As we plan for ELGL Pop Up Conferences in the September and #ELGL18 Denver, we surveyed you for your opinion on vendor halls. We have not included vendor halls in our previous events and we wanted to know if we should consider changing this approach. Below are the first half of the survey results. We'll release...

Weekly Update: Webinars, Budget, ProudCity

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear ELGL members, A number of years ago, city of Beaverton chief administrative officer Randy Ealy gave a talk to a group of ELGL members. He talked about his career and the highlights of his work. He described driving home from a budget hearing, where his proposed budget was adopted, and rolling down the windows,...

Tech Efficiency Webinar: FLO Analytics & the Washington GIS Consortium

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. | http://anymeeting.com/elgl50 Learn from the experts at FLO Analytics about the Association of Washington Cities GIS Consortium. This unique program leverages multiple organizations to produce high quality GIS services for local governments. More about the program, from AWC: AWC’s GIS Consortium increases your capacity to utilize GIS technology...

Proposed FY 2018 ELGL Budget

Today I shared the fiscal year 2018 proposed budget with the ELGL Finance Committee. It's our first "real" budget and I'm excited that we're on a path to long term financial sustainability. Notable items: I built in a salary for myself (!) and a contingency fund, as well as full funding for two conferences (#ELGL18...

Kittelson's Corner: Process Maps & TDM

This is Kittelson’s Corner my weekly musings on things I think are interesting or important, especially in local government nerd-dom. This week I watched Wonder Woman (it was awesome), finished a book about the Jim Crow era, learned about car-free planning and followed Jim Comey. Alright, let's go... What I Read The Strange Career of Jim Crow...

ELGL Digital Week 7: Working up a Sweat!

The ELGL Digital Work Group is back after a two-week breakout sesh! Check out what we’ve done and what we’re doing next to improve ELGL’s digital services! Done It is was divide and conquer with ELGL's digital working group. We split up into two groups determined to make ELGL better for all. Shout out to Luke and...

ELGL Digital Week 6: Building the ELGL of Tomorrow......Today!

After taking a break for #ELGL17 the ELGL Digital Work Group is back in action. When the ELGL Digital Project started the work group focused on answering some Zen-like questions about the organization, including How would ELGL act at a party? & If you had to describe ELGL in one word, what would it be?...