Online Community Meetings:
Tips for Maximizing Quality and Participation
To help ensure that virtual community meetings are productive for all, here are some tips to keep in mind.
Best Practices
Online Community Meetings:
Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Local governments are creatively using social media during the coronavirus pandemic to stay in touch with constituents, check the pulse of the community, and share useful resources…
Building Trust Through Social Media
Social media is a powerful tool for local governments to inform and to engage with the community at-large. Local government needs to demonstrate that it’s worthy of its constituents’ time and trust.
You’ve Got Our Support
General Code offers a variety of options to help our client communities optimize their eCode experience and to provide demos of our other digital solutions.
Keeping Your Code Up to Date is as Simple as [email protected]
When your eCode is regularly updated, you’re guaranteeing a resource your entire community can depend on – every hour of every day, from any location.
Why An Up-To-Date Code Is Your Community’s Superpower
A regularly updated Code is an enforceable and reliable resource that empowers everyone in your community.
Driving Traffic to Your Social Media Platforms
“If you build it, they will come,” right? Not exactly. But there are many ways to attract traffic to your social media accounts.
Walk This Way: Making Your Community More Bike- and Pedestrian-Friendly
Exploring how a less car-centric environment can positively impact the health and well-being of your citizens and the livability of your community-at-large.
Lowering the Volume of Questions
When your Code is up-to-date and constituents can find the information they’re looking for, the Town Hall can be a quieter place to work.
Music: A Sound Investment for Your Community
In these TEDx Talks, the presenters explore how music can positively impact your community’s identity, economy, and the well-being of your citizens.
Social Media: Are You Listening?
Social media isn’t all about creating noise to raise awareness or pushing information out to your followers/constituents. Sometimes you need to listen, too.
Change happens — have a Code that’s up to date and enforceable
Essential resources for creating and amending ordinances
Study Buddies for eCode360
General Code is ready to be your ‘study buddy’ with an extensive variety of options to help our clients optimize their eCode360 experience.
Tweet It From the Housetop!
Using your local gov’s social media channels, you can help local businesses and organizations to draw larger crowds to events, boosting tourism to your region and supporting economic growth.
You may be just 10 questions away from being more informed about codification
Doing your homework is important when considering codification so that your Code meets the needs of your municipality and your citizens. Here’s a list of questions you should always ask first before you make your choice.
Tips for Using Model Ordinances
Model ordinances can be great starting points for drafting new ordinances, but they should be reviewed and tailored for your municipality before being adopted.
Technology and Government Transparency
Local governments are upping their games in an effort to be more transparent with their citizens. Municipalities are leveraging the latest technologies to open new communication channels.
Choosing the Right Channel
You’ve decided to start using social media to communicate with your citizens, but what channel is the right one to use? We’ve compiled some of the top-used social media channels that local governments are using and examples of how they’re being used.
What’s Your Policy?
Does your community have a social media policy in place? (Spoiler alert: the answer should be yes.)
Innovative Ways to Use Your Code
Some of our clients have used extracts from their municipal Code to feed information into other business
systems used throughout their municipalities.
Improve Your “Note Ability”
Use eCode360’s Notes tool to help citizens and other users of your online Code stay up to date and informed.
Getting Social During a Disaster
Social media channels, perhaps more than any other communication tool, offer officials at every level of government the most rapid way to reach out to those in harm’s way or already affected by an emergency situation. It seems that we are all increasingly turning to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more than social reasons. A trend that is not going unnoticed by many in government responsible for emergency management.