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.
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Telling a Story with Your Budget Message with Clay Pearson, City of Pearland, TX
City of Pearland, TX: Adopted Budget – Fiscal Year 2017-18 It’s the most wonderful time of the year…….budget season! We love budgets. We love pie charts. We especially love a healthy fund balance.
A Notion for Change with LaVita Tuff, Sunlight Foundation
Meet one of the new Fab Four. LaVita Tuff describes her life experiences from working in the Lower Ninth Ward to interacting with state and local government leaders at the Sunlight Foundation.
Quiz: Is Your Local Government Prepared for Millennials?
Is your organization ready for the upcoming wave of local government retirements? California-ELGL leader and Daly City, CA assistant city manager Julie Underwood shares a quiz that’s Cosmo-worthy (if Cosmo ever ran polls about local government succession planning…).
#ELGL15: Twittersation Results
#ELGL15 Planning Committee members Kylie Bayer-Fertterer and Jahmai Cherry are blogging for ELGL as we lead up to our annual conference on October 23. Today, Kylie shares with us some of the conference ideas that resulted from the #ELGL15 Twitter conversation.
#13Percent: Let’s Talk About Race
Over the past few months we’ve had great contributions from guest bloggers to the #13Percent conversation on the lack of growth in the number of women in local government. Now we want to expand the #13Percent conversation to include racial diversity and need you to lead the discussion!
Ask ELGL: Who Manages Your Web Content?
It’s your turn to get involved. Two of our members have requested information on the following: How does your local government handle website content duties? Specifically, my city is redoing its website. I’m wondering who has the duties of posting content to the homepage, department pages, and calendars. Is it the communications department, IT, another … Continued
Yes or No…Local Government Is Wrong
Chris Floore (LinkedIn and Twitter) serves as Assistant to the County Manager for the consolidated Macon-Bibb County local government. Government makes poor decisions. Always. Every single time. From the color of the carpet to the width of a sidewalk to user fees to the property tax rate to funding external organizations…it doesn’t matter what the decision is. Yes or no…we’re wrong. Or … Continued
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.
Webinar: City Hall Goes Mobile
Link: Register for the Webinar on May 13 #ELGLInnovation ELGL and PublicStuff have partnered up to offer a second webinar focused on local governments experience with mobile apps.