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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

Barrett & Greene

Good day, Last week we were talking to an inquisitive person who is rising in the local public sector world. But most citizens don’t have access to that because it’s not communicated to them. But when elected officials do so, they are missing the idea that people trust candor.

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Lessons From State and Local Experts

GovLoop

Government Is Both Similar To and Different From the Private Sector [The public sector] doesnt, obviously, move at the same pace that it does on the private side. She encouraged data communicators to know their audiences and what they can naturally understand and interpret.

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Habit #5: Measure Productivity Productively

GovLoop

But it’s challenging to gauge in the public sector, where the goals are complex and quantitative measures cannot always reflect the values of an agency’s mission and public service. Plan and Communicate Watching your employees’ every move is a mistake. “It What is Measuring Productivity?

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4 Things You'll Learn About Data, Leadership + Budgeting at the CPBB 2016 (Un)Conference!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

He said that when executive staff or elected officials receive citizen survey results that identify areas the public finds to need improvement, best practice should NOT be to conclude that residents simply don’t understand the wonderful work the local government is doing; best practice should NOT be to aim only at educating the uninformed.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Voterly explains each issue and sides of the argument, then collects data from relevant interest groups to calculate a score that communicates where a politician stands on various aspects of an issue. Register to vote now at TurboVote.

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