Today’s Buzz is by Meredith Trimble, Content Manager, Editorial, with Tyler Technologies, Inc., and former Acting Chair, Farmington, CT Town Council (Twitter, LinkedIn) What I’m reading: Up Your Genius: A Workbook Designed to Make You Believe You Are Creative, by Bridget Quigg What I’m Watching: All the holiday baking shows on the Food Network What … Continued
By Sarah E. Moss, MPA LinkedIn and Twitter What I’m watching — The Country Music documentary by Ken Burns, an interesting lens for learning American history What I’m reading — Airplane magazines due to lots of fun work travel this month What I’m listening to — A City and County of Denver City Council meeting … Continued
Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: It’s Halloween, so … let’s just recommend Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale vs Evil — easily my two favorite “horror movies” What I’m reading: Citizenville by Gavin Newsom What I’m listening to: Jimmy Eat World’s new album, Surviving — crazy to think they’ve … Continued
Right Now with Nick Smith (Linkedin/Twitter) What I’m watching: This Epicurious series on YouTube about how different levels of cooks make different foods, such as cinnamon rolls. What I’m playing: Since my last Buzz I’ve logged over 100 more hours in Civilization VI (and they just put out a new update! 1k here I come!) … Continued
By Jennifer Davies, Public Information Officer/Social Media Manager, City of Las Vegas, NV Last week, I spoke about the role social media is playing in civic engagement at the Las Vegas Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. It centered around how technology and data are coming together to make meaningful improvements in the lives of our resident. … Continued
Jay Dawkins is the founder and CEO of PublicInput.com, a provider of community engagement software to over 50 public agencies like the cities of Raleigh, San Diego, and Austin. Public Input is a new ELGL partner and Jay will be contributing a monthly blog post to help members navigate the challenges (and fun!) of public … Continued
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This guest post is by ELGL member Ashley Trim, the executive director of the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University. The Davenport Institute is offering ELGL members 20 percent off the tuition cost of the Professional Certificate in Advanced Public Engagement – learn more about the Certificate program here: Everyone talks about public engagement as if it … Continued
In this post, Bang the Table CEO, Matthew Crozier, discusses what local government can do to head off one of the perils of fake news. The era of fake news is well and truly upon us. A Stanford study found that fake news stories about the Presidential elections were shared close to 40 million times. The … Continued
