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Building a Big Tent for Democracy

Help build a big tent for a 21st century democracy By Lawrence Grodeska, CivicMakers - Blog, LinkedIn and Twitter Do you see it? Technology is finally starting to deliver on its potential to transform our political institutions. From civic engagement platforms like Nextdoor and Neighborland, to the spread of participatory budgeting programs from New York City...

What I Am with Russell Brunson, City of Half Moon Bay, CA

Link: ELGL Spreads Across the Country “Cross between The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed” Welcome to our new member feature. We’ve all heard the excuse “I’m too busy” too many times so we’ve simplified our new member feature to illicit short, meaningful responses. Russell Brunson is the Administrative Services Manager in the City of Half Moon Bay,...

LA: Buddy Boe, St. Charles Parish Chief Administrative Officer

Nifty Fifty Takeaways What do we hope to learn from this series? We hope you will gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of local government in each state, we hope you will learn that there are others like you who are motivated to make a difference through the public sector, and we hope...

Wojo's Hierarchy of Municipal Functions

As part of his Wojo's Wandering Wisdom series, Matt Wojnowski, City of Killeen, TX Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation muses on how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs looks when applied to local governments. Learn a little more about Matt (Twitter) HERE.

What Am I with Shannon David, City of Syracuse, NY

Link: ELGL Spreads Across the Country  “Cross between The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed”  Welcome to our new member feature. We’ve all heard the excuse “I’m too busy” too many times so we’ve simplified our new member feature to illicit short, meaningful responses. 

Economic Development as if People Mattered

Announcing a new webinar! This webinar will explore the creative economic development initiatives going on around the country that work to build worker-owned businesses and the local economy. Read more and register below.

Take Two: ELGL Heads to CPBB Conference

We're back! Our friends at the Center for Priority Based Budgeting (CPBB) have invited us again to present at their annual (un) conference. This year we'll be focusing our presentation on the #13Percent initiative.

360 Review with Mike McClanahan, Kingston Springs, TN

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.” 

OpenGov & Financial Transparency in LocalGov

Our innovation webinar series is back! This time with a technology company that has been helping local governments improve their financial reporting and transparency. Learn what OpenGov has done with municipalities from Los Angeles, CA to West Homestead, PA. 

Live Streaming Local Government

Kim Ervin,  Pyramid Communications Senior Social Media Strategist, provides a monthly column on digital storytelling. Live Streaming Local Government

Storytelling: Local Government's WD-40 by Kim Newcomer, Slate Communications

Kim Newcomer, Slate Communications, provides substance to the trendy, but often hollow, suggestion that local government needs to tell a better story.

Part I: Making Civic Sense of California -- Six or Otherwise

ELGL continues to expand in California. With this expansion, we are developing more original content relevant to the local government arena in California. Stephen Harding leads us off by writing about the recent initiative to split California into six separate states.

Planning, Developing, and Implementing a Citizens Academy

Welcome to the first post in a series about creating a citizens' academy by Dallas, OR administrative intern Daniel Adatto.  In this series, he will walk you through how he created Dallas' first citizens' academy including the important research and academy elements he implemented.

The Rest of the Story on Route Fifty with Michael Grass

Introducing Route Fifty ELGL loves local government news. That's one of the reasons we're excited that Government Executive is re-launching its state and local channel as Route Fifty.

360 Review with Josh Hawkins, City of Ashland, MO

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.”

Bonds... City Bonds & Communicating with Round Rock, TX

One of our favorite local government videos and communications departments is up for an award! The City of Round Rock, TX is up for a TAMIO award and we sat down with them and got a behind the camera take on their two most successful videos. Check out the videos and interview below. 

Cool Like Clint: Should I Change Jobs?

Phil Smith-Hanes, County Administrative Officer for Humboldt County, CA, joins our team of columnists. He’ll write on topics ranging from career advice to the differences in working for a county as opposed to a city. Career Advice (or Cool Like Clint) By: Phil Smith-Hanes, LinkedIn and Twitter Changing jobs sucks. Sure, 99.96% of the time...

What is an Assistant To: Kate Green, Peoria, IL

What is an Assistant to the City Manager? In between other duties as assigned, council meetings, and a bewildering assortment of public inquiries, ELGL members identify the essential functions of the position.

Webinar: Local Government Gets Mobile with Apps

Register for the webinar on March 18 #ELGLInnovation Join ELGL for a webinar to discuss local governments experience with mobile apps. A panel of local government all stars will share their experience developing, implementing, and finding the right constituent relationship management (CRM) solution for their communities. We will talk about what drove interest in developing a mobile...

New Feature: Open Government with Richard Pietro

Open government is a global issue as you’ll realize in our new series with Richard Pietro, founding member of CitizenBridge,org.  Richard has banged the open government drum in Canada, and now, he’s invading the United States. We’ll feature Richard’s articles and podcast (co-hosted by Sameer Vasta) as he encourages you to keep moving towards having...

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