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THE B&G Reading List

Barrett & Greene

Banfield, recommended by BJ Reed, Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska Omaha. What Should We Do: A Theory of Civic Life , by Peter Levine, recommended by Karen Garrett, chief of communications, marketing and membership, American Society of Public Administration.

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WANT TO WRITE SO THAT OTHERS CAN USE WHAT YOU’VE WRTTEN? HERE’s YOUR CHANCE!

Barrett & Greene

Imagine a whole generation who can clearly communicate great ideas!" Chris Morrill, the Executive Director of the Government Finance Officers Association , commented that “With notes of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, Barrett, Greene, and Kettl have gifted us a highly practical guide for communicating in a hyper-distracted world.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Visions of Recovery: Reimagining Long-Term Care

First State Insights

Katelyn Andrews, Director of Public Policy at LiveOn NY, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about public policy priorities for aging and older adults and her vision for the future of long-term care.

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Returning to a Government of Competence

ASPA National Weblog

One panel was several members of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) raising the question of what advice should they provide to the new administration and Congress. In these early days of the Clinton administration, the military wasn’t highly regarded, maybe not even trusted.

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Making public services more accessible with AI-powered translations from Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

With smart translations, done almost in real-time, we’ve created a new, more agile way of communicating. We’ll show you a simple translation app we’ve created for a common use case, and explain how you can use this solution in the day-to-day work of public officialdom to overcome language barriers.

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Use of Social Media in Disasters

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Social media is a relatively new communications tool. However, today it dominates many aspects for how people communicate in their personal lives and is of increasing importance in business and government. Social media is a relatively new communications tool.