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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...

Knope of the Week: Kim Ervin, Pyramid Communications

Digital Storytelling: Kim Ervin, Pyramid Communications, Senior Social Media Strategist The gift of #ELGL14 keeps giving. We met Kim Ervin (LinkedIn and Twitter) for the first time at #ELGL14 and since then she has become an important ELGL contributor. Through the "Digital Storytelling" column, Kim has given us pointers on finding our social media filter, using...

CT: Michael Maniscalco, Town of East Hampton

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 you will learn...

New Year's Resolution for Local Government: The Undergraduate Internship

Fresh off landing a top 10 spot in our 2014 countdown, Connor Reed, Indiana University sophomore, returns with a New Year's resolution for local government.

The Transition with Dustin Anderson, Town of Munster, IN

Munster's new town manager takes in the political landscape Julie Novak, The Novak Consulting Group, tipped us off on our subject for this interview. As a 34-year old local government professional, Dustin Anderson (LinkedIn) discusses his career transition from special projects manager in Greenwich, CT to town manager in Munster, IN. Lightning Round Your hometown? What is...

360 Review with Kevin Knutson, Management Partners

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...

My Story with Emily Vincent, City of Olathe, KS

ELGL’s mission is to connect, communicate, and educate. In our new ongoing series we allow ELGL members to tell their story, describing how they got into local government and a little about their path and journey in the field. Emily Vincent, Olathe, KS Budget Manager, describes her story below. My most frustrating experience in local...

The Confidential: House of Cards vs. Lalaloopsy

Kent Wyatt is back with the Local Government Confidential. This members-only post discusses all things that non-members shouldn't know. Saturday, February 28 Missing Zoe Barnes The days of binge watching are over in the Wyatt household unless watching two episodes of House of Cards - Season 3 counts. We plowed through the first two episodes after...