Join Granicus for a complimentary webinar during Emergency Preparedness Month and dive into the world of emergency communications. A year after Hurricane Ian, leading Florida government communicators, representing the City of North Port and Sarasota County, will share their invaluable experiences and insights. Specifically, attendees will: Discover how these communications teams acted swiftly in the face of a natural disaster, ensuring accura...

Heroic events often capture the community’s imagination of their fire departments. But it’s the mundane work – issuing permits, renewing licenses, and fulfilling routine community requests – that take up your time. For departments, these task are demanding, tedious, and costly; for residents, navigating a tangle of PDFs and basic online forms is frustrating and time consuming. Join us for a 30-minute webinar on Thursday...

When COVID-19 hit, it put government communicators to the ultimate test. They had to reach as many citizens as possible with critical updates even when there were multiple crises at once. Join us as we discuss how to put our recent crisis planning eBook into practice and use govDelivery to enhance reach and engage more people. Join us to: Dive deep into audience development, messaging, and measure impact to ensure community health and safety....

Now more than ever, it’s imperative to have a strong digital web presence. Residents need up-to-date information — and they need it quickly. Unfortunately, many government websites lack the structure, distributed editing, and security required to meet today’s demands. Join government website design, security, and CARES funding experts to learn how to quickly deliver on a website solution that meets community needs.

Short-term vacation rentals (STRs) are more popular than ever. As community managers, your residents look to you to uphold your organization’s rules/covenants to maintain harmony, and the recent pandemic highlighted it’s more important than ever to get information to those who may be renting. However, communicating with hosts (or even identifying who is renting and where) can be difficult — unless you have the right tools. Jo...

During a crisis, effective communications can be the difference between confidence or doubt, security or discord, and ultimately, success or failure.With the continued focus on COVID-19, demonstrations, and the upcoming severe weather season, government teams need a repeatable playbook that can account for multiple crises at one time.Join Granicus to gain a better understanding of:Managing a multi-crisis mindset through a step-by-step communic...

CARES Act Funding has started flowing to state and local governments, and municipalities are working out how best to leverage this funding to address a wide range of needs, from transitioning services to virtual and online to communicating critical information to local constituents. And the emergency nature of CARES Act – as well as pending additional stimulus funding – is forcing government leaders to make decisions about how to a...

The coronavirus pandemic raised the bar for what qualifies as “being prepared.” Join us May 20th to discover fundamental ways of thinking about crisis response that face the post-coronavirus reality we’ve entered. From building your crisis communications playbook, preparing your community in advance, addressing misinformation, and applying the right tone, you’ll learn frameworks, tactics, and examples that impact govern...

COVID-19 is a humanitarian crisis, leading to overwhelming demands on services and programs and forcing a dramatic shift to digital. We may not know what the next waves of this crisis will bring, but it’s clear that transitioning to digital services will allow you to be better prepared. Business as usual won’t cut it. In this webinar, we look at the top 5 services to digitize now, and how to stay ahead of future waves of demand.

Responding to COVID-19: Best Practices for the Gov Community New information surrounding the coronavirus outbreak arrives daily. While many health experts predict that the U.S. will receive its share of the impact, there are also reports of misinformation and disinformation. What can government agencies learn from one another to stay ahead of this public health crisis? Join us for this 90-minute webinar to explore the answers. From communicat...