Matt McFarland | Posted on May 25, 2012 at 9:47 AM 
We all know change can be difficult. It’s scary to a lot of people set in their ways. During my time at IIMC, I attended the Dealing with Change session dedicated to just that subject.
Drew Baker | Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM 
Does your organization have a social media policy? You may not, but believe me, your citizens do. If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest in the world. Considering that, it may well be time to develop a social media policy to engage your citizens on this crucial platform.
Jon Johansen | Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:27 AM 
This week, at the IIMC conference in Portland, I attended an excellent educational session by Jim Mathis, called, "Reinvention made easy, change your strategy change your results". Mathis made several great references to the current state of our economy. He says that the economy is not down, it’s changing. The key is to adapt to this change and find ways to excel in it.
Tom Spengler | Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:07 PM 
I'm at the annual IIMC conference where municipal clerks from around the world are looking for the next must-have legislative solution. There once was a debate as to whether or not government workers should have phones. Phones are now a must-have technology. Like phones, paperless agenda management's time has arrived in the "must-have" era.
Tobias Cichon | Posted on May 17, 2012 at 7:46 AM 
For the past fifteen years I’ve been working with governments to help them adopt paperless workflows, particularly in the legislative process. Paperless strategies can be contagious. If you start at the core of your business, there’s no debate about whether or not to do it for the rest. In fact, people generally start looking for more ways to go paperless because it makes the job so much easier; not just by way of the absence of paper shuffling, but in the vastly greater functionality and speed of digitized data. So, let’s start at the core of local government - the meetings - and look at what it really costs.
Dan Melton | Posted on May 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM 
If you haven't heard of Code for America, it's like a peace corps for geeks. Designers, developers, product managers and technologists serve a fellowship for a year and help 'reboot government' by building new and innovative open source/platform solutions for city governments. This year, they have teams of three to four fellows in eight cities, including several Granicus clients: Chicago, Honulu, Austin, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. The CFA Salons are monthly gatherings of thought leaders in the Gov 2.0 space who share interesting insights into their work.
Laura Hibben | Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM 
According to Popular Science Magazine, Portland is known as America’s #1 Greenest City. However, Portland did not receive this title just for their trees; the City of Portland and their citizens have made it a priority to put the environment first. While you are at IIMC this year, you can easily take advantage of Portland’s finest eco-friendly activities and experience what the #1 Greenest City really has to offer.
