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San Antonio Deepens Trust With Constituents

GovLoop

Let’s say you launch a constituent engagement initiative and within one year you see a significant rise across various metrics: website hits, comments received and event registrations. For Alanna Reed, San Antonio’s Director of Communications and Engagement, numbers tell only part of the story. Building Engagement Through Trust.

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Your Patrons Are Not Goldfish! The Powerful, Scientifically Proven Reason Why Your Library Should Aim To Hold the Sustained Attention of Your Community

Super Library Marketing

In 2015, large news organizations, including Time , The New York Times , and The Telegraph reported a single, mind-blowing finding from a new study by Microsoft. That means that if you can engage your cardholders’ sustained attention, your marketing will be memorable. Social media is a perfect example.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. In fact, I mention that as an issue a lot in terms of funding.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In the 2015 budget process, the city engaged in a streamlined PBB process, recognizing the significant work that had been done in prior years, as well as the demands on staff related to flood recovery and the implementation of an integrated Finance and Human Resources business solutions software package.

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Later he was fired because Mayor Guiliani didn't like how much attention that Bratton got by the press and public, and the policing strategy changed from data based to what is called Zero Tolerance Policing, which could be pretty oppressive and didn't engage the community. One that WMATA ought to pay attention to as well. Other options.

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Strathcona County Blazing A PBB Trail in Alberta, Canada

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

We believe it is only possible to achieve this goal if we have an engaged and empowered community. We achieved this balance by focusing on priorities, holding the line on spending, finding efficiencies and allocating a portion of the 2015 municipal surplus to 2016 budget needs in our community.