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Seven Things to Consider When Reopening Communities

This guest post is by ELGL member Randall Reid, Southeast regional director for ICMA. This week cities and counties throughout the southeast (SE) begin in earnest to reopen not just their city halls but their business communities as well. Most states in the region have established May 1 to June 1 as critical dates to end their stay-at-home...

Podcast: Utility Operations & COVID-19 with Todd Danielson, Avon Lake Regional Water

Todd Danielson Chief Utilities Executive Avon Lake Regional Water Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Providing water and wastewater during a pandemic. Todd Danielson, Chief Utilities Executive of Avon Lake Regional Water, joined the podcast to talk about how COVID-19 is impacting utility operations. He shared how they have changed shift schedules to protect staff and...

Podcast: Local Politics is the Best Politics with Professor Emily Farris

Emily Farris Associate Professor Texas Christian University Bio | Twitter The best of American politics. Emily Farris, Associate Professor of Politics at Texas Christian University, joined the podcast to talk about teaching local politics. She shared how she includes local government in her courses and gets students to learn about what's going on in Fort...

Podcast: Putting People First in Birmingham, AL with Ed Fields

Ed Fields Senior Advisor and Chief Strategist City of Birmingham, Alabama Bio | LinkedIn Engagement from campaigning to governing. Ed Fields, Senior Advisor and Chief Strategist for the City of Birmingham, Alabama, joined the podcast to talk about how they engage residents in the work of local government. He also discussed transitioning a new mayoral...

Best Ideas List for 2019

Today's Morning Buzz is by Mike Skibbe (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m Reading: The Beast by Jade Gurss What I’m Watching: Letterkenny Problems What I’m Listening To: The Worklife Podcast As the year winds down, and holiday parties fill our schedules, it’s a traditional time of reflection on the past year. Best of lists fill...

9 Times 'Parks and Recreation' Taught Us How to Get Real About Ethics

Written by Matt Windsor. Republished with permission from UAB Reporter. Imagine you are working in city government and your office receives a wine and cheese basket from a local construction firm. It’s clearly worth more than $25, which is the cutoff for acceptable gifts, but someone opens the basket anyway. What should you do? That question...

Change Is Inevitable. Make It the Right Kind of Change.

ELGL member and City of Estacada, Oregon Economic Development Director Matt Lorenzen is attending the Main Street Now conference and he’s sharing everything he’s learning in a blog series and on ELGL social media channels. At the conference I attended sessions on topics ranging from historic tax credits, to zoning reform, to destination businesses. Lots to learn. Lots to follow up on....

Are Work Friends...Friends?

Is making friends at work the same as making friends in real life? How do you create appropriate, beneficial friendships in a work environment?

2016 Traeger Award Winners

The Chris Traeger List: Top 100 Local Government Influencers AUGUST 1, 2016 BY ELGL A few notes before we reveal the list: 1. This list does not include any ELGL management team members. Due to the obvious conflict of interest, we have elected not to include them. 2. In developing the rankings, we consistently came back to...

Nominations for the 2017 ELGL Haverford Award

FEBRUARY 15, 2017 BY ELGL Update! Award winners will be announced at #ELGL17 on May 12 in Detroit. The impact of the 2016 ELGL Choice Award remains — ELGL members are making more informed decisions in selecting vendors and Choice Award winners are gaining new clients. For 2017, you’ll notice a major change to the award. Due to his unmatched entrepreneurial...

Nominees for the 2018 Haverford Choice Award

        List of Nominees Accela designs and delivers productivity and engagement software to help government agencies be their best. Affion Public is a a strategic consulting and advisory services firm focused on providing technology and executive search services for state and local government, education and non-profit organizations. Alliance Resource Consulting carries a reputation of providing service...

Call for Nominations: 2018 Tom Haverford Award

After being featured on the Civic Tech Chat podcast, ELGL Connects: The Local Government Resource Directory grew to more than 270 listings and 100+ reviews. ELGL members are using the directory to make better informed decisions in selecting a vendor. Each previous winner of the Tom Haverford Award is listed in ELGL Connects. With that, we...

I Have to Ask: Creating a Policy Lab

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week Ben Clark, Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Oregon, writes about the potential of a Lane County-PPPM Policy Lab. For more info, read the policy lab report by Katie Fields, Keith Frazee, Darian Lightfoot, and Grace...

Why We Funded: ViewPoint Cloud & the Diversity Dashboard

ELGL All-In Member ViewPoint Cloud pledged $500 to the Diversity Dashboard. We caught up with the ViewPoint team to learn more about why their company is backing ELGL's Kickstarter campaign. Why did ViewPoint Cloud pledge funds to the ELGL Diversity Dashboard? We strongly believe in representative government, and that means people in positions of power...

Rocky Mountain High-Performance Government: One Day Conference

Join ELGL and Cartegraph for this special add-on conference experience on October 12 in Denver, Colorado in conjunction with Cartegraph's annual user conference. Your ticket price includes the full day of conferencing, lunch, and a social hour! Register online here. 8:30 - 9:30 AM - Opening Keynote Achieving Clarity: The Best-Kept Secret of High-Performance Government Nick Kittle | Government Performance and...

03/31/17: Laugh, Cry, and Think

ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt is straight bloggin' the month of March. Last month, Zach Navin was the big winner for reading the blog and Twitter trollin' Kirsten Wyatt. Who will be the big winner in March? Thursday, March 30 A bittersweet day......it's the final day of Bachelor Week which I will spend straight bloggin', running/walking...

The Best Ever with Nina Stepanov, Viewpoint Cloud

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...

Nominations for the 2017 ELGL Choice Award

Update! Award winners will be announced at #ELGL17 on May 12 in Detroit. The impact of the 2016 ELGL Choice Award remains -- ELGL members are making more informed decisions in selecting vendors and Choice Award winners are gaining new clients. For 2017, you'll notice a major change to the award. Due to his unmatched entrepreneurial skills...

02.06.17 Buzz

In today’s buzz: bans, waste, pensions, and procurement. Yesterday, my brother asked me if I had any hobbies and I said “pretty much just work-related stuff.” This buzz is brought to you by executive orders with food quotes from Parks & Recreation. Wanna make your own? Right now with Rebecca Woodbury (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Listening...

11/16 The Confidential: The Rent Is Too Damn High

I am Kent Wyatt and I support this blog post. Jim Valvano, former NC State basketball coach, famously said that each day you should “laugh, cry, and think“. The Confidential will try to highlight an article, event, or photo that will help you with your daily laugh, cry, and think. “If you laugh, you think,...

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