Top 5 Ways to Make Creating Meeting Minutes More Efficient with Granicus

Your email inbox is overflowing, your phone is ringing constantly, and your assistant is on vacation. Requests are pouring in for more detailed information about the council meeting, and you haven’t even turned on your computer yet. If only you could check-off the most important post-meeting task, “Finish Minutes,” within an hour of arriving into work the next day. You can! 

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Hardware as a Service – Saving you time AND money!

My first blog on the Granicus Unified Encoder gave a high-level overview of what it is and what you get. In this post, I wanted to take a deeper look at what this new Hardware as a Service (HaaS) approach Granicus is taking means to you as an IT/IS stakeholder.

Renting vs. Owning

In the HaaS model, you rent the encoder from us rather than buy it outright. This both lowers your initial cost and removes the maintenance burden that comes along with ownership.

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Granicus Experiences Storage Outage, Plans to Open Third Data Center

Because Granicus believes in transparency and is dedicated to preserving our customers’ systems and information, I wanted to give you a brief update on the cause and events occurring immediately after Granicus’ storage outage on November 14^th.

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Setting an Open Government Standard?

Local, state, and federal Freedom of Information and Open Meeting laws govern the public’s right to know what’s going on in their government. These statutes don’t often make mainstream media headlines; however, the effects of them are far-reaching. As technology advances, governments need to keep their websites up-to-date with the latest tools for transparency, this helps avoid the risk of being out of compliance and builds trust with constituents.

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City of Sparks Signs with Granicus in Two Days to Save Open Meetings

Sparks, NV ran into a roadblock in mid-2010 when their public access station suddenly went out of business. The station was responsible for recording and broadcasting public meetings on TV and the Web. The city scrambled to move all of the equipment over to City Hall, set it up, and try to get their proceedings out to the public.

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New! eComment Training Now Available

A handful of Granicus clients have already started using the next generation of our innovative citizen participation tool, eComment. Want to learn about the exciting new capabilities? Check out the new on demand training video in the Customer Service Portal.

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Granicus Support – What Happens When You Hit Pause in Your Video Stream?

Working the on-call night shift is super glamorous.  You get to hang out with celebrities and drink champagne and all sorts of great stuff.

Wait…that isn’t what it’s like at all.

One particular night, I received a call for Steve Johnson from Bullhead City, AZ. 

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