They are job titles that are becoming more elusive: Assistant City Manager Assistant to the City Manager Management Analyst Once thought as a succession planning pathway for the next generation of city managers, generalist mid-manager positions are often hard to come by as local governments forgo filling these roles during times of budget uncertainty. AlexRead… Read more »
I just read an an article with the headline I used as my blog post title. It said things like: Speaking with reporters, web users expressed a near unanimous desire to visit a website and simply look at it, for once, without having every aspect of the user interface tailored to a set of demographicRead… Read more »
Slow observed that golf bets are won before the first hole and after the eighteenth. I am ten minutes to an hour early for group meetings, depending on the meeting. If they are important enough for me to attend in the first place, I want to have sufficient time to work with everyone who hasRead… Read more »
I’m hosting a webinar on the 20th to discuss effective communications and engagement strategies and how NationBuilder can help. If you’d like to join, RSVP here. Thanks! Related: Go, Government Efficiency Long Beach, SF, Bordentown: Pioneering digital democracy with NationBuilder Government New ‘Civitas’ theme released
The federal budget process has practically ground to a halt. Centurion Research Solutions recently conducted a survey of its clients to ascertain the impact of this impasse on their current and future business growth plans and, in some cases, financial survival. In a nutshell – the survey illustrates the drastic effects this situation is alreadyRead… Read more »
Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens Welcome New Member: Lowell Crow, US Navy, Community Manager Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Join ELGL: Students (free), individuals ($20), and organizations ($250) Upcoming Forums: TODAY: ELGL Forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor March 1: ELGL Conference Planning Committee Meeting March 7: Tiffany Couch, Financial InvestigationRead… Read more »
ELGL Forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor Meeting Agenda Can I Get a Ride? Willamette Week Editor Mark Zusman – February 6, 2013 – Lakewood Center, Lake Oswego Original post
Having barely avoided falling off the fiscal cliff on January 1, we soon found ourselves sliding down a slippery slope toward a dark and gloomy abyss. The sequester was postponed for only two months, the debt ceiling was raised, but only until May, and we continue to hurtle toward the March 27 expiration of theRead… Read more »
A new American Customer Satisfaction Index has been released and shows that citizen satisfaction with government services, particularly with web services, increased 2.2% over last year. On average, the satisfaction is at 68.4% but this is not consistent across all agencies. It’s interesting to see that the highest satisfaction ratings at the department level wereRead… Read more »
“We the People …” is perhaps the most powerful opening clause ever uttered on this planet. Yet how many of “We,” really take to heart what those three words mean on a personal level? When it comes to the state of civic participation in the United States today, to paraphrase Jimmy Buffett perhaps, “We areRead… Read more »