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Entries in Granicus Meeting Efficiency Suite (22)

Thursday
Sep202012

Upcoming New Features in Granicus Government Suites

The new Granicus suite release, codenamed Drake, is expected to launch in October. Here is a list of key new features that you can expect to see:

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Friday
Jul202012

Becoming a Leader in Civic Technology: Webinar Recap

We hosted a webinar yesterday to help government agencies become leaders in civic technology. The event attracted more than 300 people! I wanted to share a quick recap of some of the core themes we discussed to hopefully help your organization harnesses online technologies that can help you govern more effectively—this means with higher levels of public trust, accountability, and cost savings.

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Friday
Jun012012

4 Achievable Ways to Update Your Old Legislative and Citizen Workflows

It’s easy to get stuck in old ways of doing things. It doesn't matter if it takes longer or requires more work; it’s familiar and gets done almost completely out of habit. Tom Spengler, Granicus CEO, led a great session at IIMC which showed municipal clerks how to break old habits and work smarter. There was clearly a lot of interest in this topic. The room was packed with 80-100 people!

Since the session was two hours, I’ve summarized below 4 ways to help government work smarter. Additionally, we’ve published a few short video clips from the session. 

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Wednesday
Apr112012

Next-Gen Government: Top 5 Technology Characteristics

As government continues to face budgetary constraints and rising expectations from their community, Granicus hosted a webinar this week to help agencies kick start their “next generation” technology strategies to mitigate these challenges. I’m going to provide a quick recap of some of the key points we discussed during this webinar. If you’d like, you can simply watch the recording by clicking here.

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Wednesday
Aug312011

Webinar Recap – Discover Granicus Product Suites

If you’re interested in adding video and other citizen collaboration tools onto your existing Legistar® agenda management solution or if you’re just interested in learning about the variety of tools Granicus offers to help you increase transparency, efficiency, and citizen participation, we recently hosted a webinar to help you achieve this. We had Granicus customers attend from nearly thirty different cities and special districts from across the U.S. and Canada.

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Wednesday
Aug242011

Take Minutes More Efficiently: Automation for Public Meetings

During public meetings, elected officials regularly debate policy and programs that impact their community. This requires them to cover agenda items, speakers, motions, and votes by using standardized rules and procedures. Oftentimes, these meetings occur at a very fast pace, which makes the job of creating meeting minutes a very difficult challenge. This is where Granicus can help.

I've summarized a few of the core features available within our Meeting Efficiency Suite that can alleviate the burden of manually typing or handwriting the names, votes, and actions as they occur.

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Friday
Jul222011

Webinar Recap: Top 5 Tips for Agenda & Legislative Management

Yesterday, Granicus hosted a successful webinar for nearly 200 local government clerks to help them modernize the way they manage and track the legislative process. We showcased best practices that have helped local governments save millions of dollars in staff time and paper reduction.

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