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Improving Citizen Engagement in Online Forums & Public Meetings

Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash This article is written by Brian Murphy (LinkedIn/Twitter) and coauthored by Nathan Lee, CivicPulse. As local governments work to connect with community members in a socially distant way, online meetings and public forums have become the new normal as in-person meetings have become impossible. Online messaging tools like email...

Involving Your Community in the Development Review Process

This guest post is by Michelle Stephens, AICP, Engagement Manager at Bang the Table 2020 continues to shine a bright light on local government, including the processes and functions it does and doesn't do well. As a planner and President of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, I'm particularly interested in how local government is...

Podcast: Planning and Engagement with Christian Williams, Goodyear, AZ

Christian Williams Planner City of Goodyear, AZ LinkedIn | Twitter Making the career leap. Christian Williams, Planner for the City of Goodyear, Arizona, joined the podcast to talk about his recent career change to working in planning and his career path in local government. He shared how the City is engaging residents in the planning...

Common Ground – Community and Recovery in a Season of Social Distress

What I’m reading: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption What I’m watching: The Fertile Ground Documentary (debuted on PBS last week) Today's morning buzz is brought to you by Jordan Rae Hillman, AICP, Director of Planning, City of Jackson Mississippi This past weekend we @jxnplanning had the privilege of partnering through our Fertile...

Data Storytelling: How to Identify the Story behind the Data and Share it with the Community

This post is brought to you by Greg Stopka, Strategy and Innovation Manager at the Park District of Oak Park, as part of ELGL’s “Creative Community” learning series about the role of arts and culture in local government. Sign up to guest blog about your local government experiences with creative placemaking here – tell your...

Why Budget Engagement? Why Now?

This guest post is brought to you by Chris Adams, President of Balancing Act and partner with Bang the Table Public engagement on the budget has always been something of an odd duck. Government budgets are complicated, typically hundreds of pages long, and involve at least a little math. They are generally inaccessible and deeply...

Will Crisis Engagement Become Engagement?

I'm Jessica VanderKolk, Communications Manager for the City of Battle Creek, Michigan. Talk to me on Twitter and LinkedIn! What I'm reading -- Untamed by Glennon Doyle What I'm watching -- ASMR videos to relax my brain, while I work and before I sleep What I'm doing -- Running as much as I can, and...

Rewind: Building Community and Rebuilding Connections

This webinar occurred on May 21, 2020. Even at the best of times, authentic, inclusive, and effective public engagement looks very different from traditional, 3-minutes-at-a-microphone, public comment. Even after COVID-19 mandates are lifted, local government resources will be more limited, while complex issues such as housing, homelessness, workforce development, and the gig economy will only...

Rewind: Engagement Essentials: Meeting Public Access Obligations

This webinar originally aired on April 24, 2020. What happens to the relationship between local government and residents when traditional tools of public access are off the table? Recognizing that no single platform or process can address every need in this unprecedented time, this webinar will explore strategies for fulfilling public meeting requirements during a...

Get the Word Out: Reaching Community Members With Confidence 

This post is shared from our friends at PublicInput: Most days public engagement efforts tend to follow a regular cadence of chaos and downtime, but the arrival of COVID-19 is dramatically changing that, stretching every resource available. For many of you this crisis is unprecedented, as clear, consistent communication with your community is critical.  Our...

I Have to Ask: Rules of Engagement

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Sarah E. O'Brien, writes about the need to redefine the rules of engagement.  When I said “the rules of engagement,” it was in reference to the way we serve our communities. We’ve been talking about things...

Podcast: Engagement, Arts, and Cities with Lynn Osgood, Civic Arts

Lynn Osgood Executive Director Civic Arts Austin Bio | LinkedIn | Twitter Intersection of community development and arts. Lynn Osgood, the Executive Director of Civic Arts Austin, joined the podcast to talk about bringing arts and culture into the way cities are built. She discussed some example projects of how artists have helped communities with...

Introducing: Creative Community Partners Civic Arts & ArtPlace America!

Photo by Jonice Moore | Forklift Danceworks, Nadamos Dove Springs (2018) This post is brought to you by Lyz Crane (ArtPlace America) and Lynn Osgood (Civic Arts) as part of ELGL's "Creative Community" learning series about the role of arts and culture in local government. Sign up to guest blog about your local government experiences with...

Marketing Your Online Engagement Site

Brought to you by Engagement Manager, Meghan Ruble, of Bang the Table. Today is the day! Your online engagement site is going live, a culmination of months, perhaps years of work to foster internal buy-in, secure funding, identify projects, create content, gather images and finally launch your site. Congratulations! Now the real work begins. In my...

Announcing: ELGL's Creative Community!

ELGL is proud to announce a new content and learning partnership on creative placemaking! ELGL will work with ArtPlace America and Civic Arts ​ to share content, learning opportunities, and resources about how to use art and culture to build and grow strong communities.  ELGL is calling this effort Creative Community because this is a project that welcomes everyone to...

Improve Your Development Review Process by Improving Public Engagement

Brought to you by Engagement Manager, Michelle Stephens, of Bang the Table. Public meetings full of angry and misinformed residents?  A community that doesn’t understand their purpose and role in the development review process?  Inefficient input analysis and reporting process?  Voices missing from the conversation? All of these are common challenges faced throughout the development review...

Creative Community

About ELGL's Creative Community ELGL is excited to partner with ArtPlace America and CivicArts to write, explore, share, and learn about creative placemaking and how we use arts and culture to shape our communities! We know that when all local government departments - from public works, to libraries, to budget offices (and everything in between) - use creative approaches, the result...

Webinar Recording: Unified Engagement with Public Input, Greenville, and H2M

Missed our Looking Beyond Online and In-Person: Unified Engagement webinar from December 12, 2019? You can view the full recording of Unified Engagement with Public Input, Greenville, and H2M here. You can download the slide presentation here. Thinking in terms of “online engagement” and “traditional engagement” limits our ability to see the big picture and...

Van Dyke Announced as Communications & Public Engagement Director

Here's an exciting news release about ELGL member Aly Van Dyke! GEORGETOWN - Aly Van Dyke will be Georgetown’s new communications and public engagement director. After an extensive search, Van Dyke was selected from more than 130 applicants to serve in the role. This is a new position for the City to help elevate and...

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