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City of Wentzville: How an Ice Cream Sandwich Inspired a New Wave in Employee Engagement

This guest blog is brought to you by one of our winners for the 2019 Meagle Award, The City of Wentzville, Missouri! The Meagle Award recognizes the best places to work in local government. In 2018, the City of Wentzville set out to be the “Best City in the World.” A lofty goal for sure and...

I Have to Ask: Talking with the Community

In this series, guest columnists respond to one of three topics selected by ELGL co-founder Kent Wyatt. This week, Stephanie Taylor, Public Information Coordinator, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, writes about transparent communications. Read more from Stephanie: Channeling My Inner Leslie Knope. Being the first person to ever step into my role was probably one of the most...

The Use of “Storytelling” to Build Community

“Tell a new story. Not one about blacks or whites, but about us - together.” I recently attended an event coordinated by three sectors of local government (city, county and school board) and a local non-profit, entitled “Confronting Implicit Bias and Institutionalized Racism for a Better Community.” The room was filled to capacity with local elected...

Building a Strong Public Engagement Framework

This guest post is from Anthea Shaw, Engagement and Client Account Manager with Bang the Table. Get Involved Kingston, the City of Kingston, Ontario’s engagement hub, saw over 7,000 people register to have their say and over 24,000 visits to their dedicated engagement platform in the first 14 months of going online. The city credits...

Webinar: Making Creative Resident Engagement “Business as Usual”

Register for this event! September 18, 2019 10:00 a.m. PT/1:00 ET Trust in government (and indeed in all institutions) is at an all time low, indifference toward local government is at an all time high, and the challenges facing communities are more complex than ever. In this context, finding authentic, inclusive and effective ways to...

Podcast: Transportation, Engagement & Libraries from the Code for America Summit

Warren Logan Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations Oakland, CA LinkedIn | Twitter Laura Biediger Community Engagement Strategist Durham, NC LinkedIn | Twitter Stephanie Chase Director of Libraries Hillsboro, OR LinkedIn | Twitter Designing better government. Earlier this summer GovLove hosted a live recording at the Code for America Summit in Oakland, California. Three...

Feeling Myself -- Understanding My Emotional Attachment to Social Media Engagement

Today's Morning Buzz is brought to you by Katie Nelson (LinkedIn) What I’m Listening To: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers What I’m Reading: Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered What I’m Watching: Schitt’s Creek “What I hear when I'm being yelled at is people caring loudly at me.” – Leslie...

Engagement for All; or Making Sure Everyone Can Access Chewie

Today's Buzz is by Jessica VanderKolk. Connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn, and on all City of Battle Creek social. What I'm watching: A lot of Transformers, and other shows my 6-year-old watches, and Dark with my German Lit PhD husband. What I'm reading: Just finished Anna Clark's The Poisoned City, a situation from...

The Secret to Compelling Online Engagement

This guest blog is by ELGL member and photographer extraordinaire Angelica Wedell from the National Research Center, Inc. (NRC). You may be tweeting daily, streaming public meetings on YouTube and even publishing press releases on the official website blog. But with all this effort to meet constituents where they are already communicating, many local governments...

The Engagement Corner - A New Resource For ELGL Members

We're excited to partner with Bang the Table in creating this exclusive benefit for ELGL members. Link: ELGL Engagement Corner. By: Matthew Crozier, CEO at Bang the Table As local governments across the US continue to prioritize citizen engagement, today, we’re excited to launch a new resource platform to help guide discovery and share best...

You've Got Mail: Email is (Still) Your Top Engagement Tool

Right Now with Warren Kagarise (Linkedin/Twitter/Instagram) What I'm watching: "Social Animals" — a clever documentary about the ways Instagram affects a trio of teenagers in ways both predictable and unexpected. What I'm listening to: The local debate du jour, about how people in my age group think the negatives of living in Seattle outweigh the...

10 Commandments for Online Engagement

This guest post is from Amanda Nagl of Bang the Table Use these ten tips like an online engagement Bible and reap the rewards of better-designed projects; a more informed community who provides usable feedback.  1. Thou shalt not use jargon. All fields create their own language, no one is impressed by it anymore.  Avoid...

Changing The Engagement Game

This guest blog is by Meredith Reynolds, the Manager of Park Planning & Partnerships for the city of Long Beach, CA. In a previous post, I discussed community engagement, what makes it so difficult and what if we are the ones to change how we engage our communities. One critical component of changing the engagement game is...

Podcast: Engagement with Jay Dawkins, CEO of PublicInput

Jay Dawkins CEO PublicInput.com LinkedIn | Twitter Meeting people where they are. Jay Dawkins the CEO of PublicInput joined the podcast to talk about community engagement and reaching more people through engagement. Jay shared his career path to leading a software company and how they work with local governments. He talked about pitfalls in engagement...

Professional Certificate in Advanced Public Engagement for Local Government

This opportunity shared by our friends at the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership in the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. In an age where trust in government (and indeed in all institutions) is at an all time low, and indifference toward local government is at an all time high, the...

Bridging the Digital Divide: Community Internet Programs

In today's Morning Buzz, we’re going to explore how access to broadband internet can impact a community—particularly marginalized communities. Right Now with Daniel Soto (LinkedIn/Twitter) What I’m Listening to – Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain (I never realized how catchy this song was until I heard my new roommate blast it at 7 AM while...

#ELGLPopUps: Engagement, Leadership, Failure, Justice

This #ELGLPopUps summary post is provided by University of Washington Evans School student Nora Carroll, who received a scholarship from OCCMA to the event in Portland. Nora Carroll MPA Candidate, Evans School Attending my first ELGL Pop Up conference was no disappointment. It was a great day filled with enriching conversation surrounding local government topics and...

WINNER: Organized Chaos: Creative Engagement Solutions for Emergency Preparedness

Organized Chaos was chosen as the ELGL/UTA Challenge WINNER for their creative engagement solution in Emergency Preparedness! We are highlighting the work of the five groups that participated in the ELGL & UTA Challenge. Teams were tasked with developing community engagement solutions for one of the following areas: budget, infrastructure investment, planning and zoning, and emergency preparedness....

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