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Podcast: Northfield Third Ward Councilor Erica Zweifel

Tracy Davis, Erica Zweifel, Christoph, Ross Currier Our guest this week was Northfield Third Ward City Councilor Erica Zweifel (accompanied by her able executive assistant, Christoph). We discussed her reflections of her first year on the Council, especially in areas related to the Council 2009 goal to “implement effective methods of communication with citizen advisory groups and community.”

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Charter Commission mulls changes but drops the transparency ball

Strother Martin Today’s Nfld News (Commission suggests changing governmental powers) says that the Charter Commission is considering revisions to the Charter, granting “… executive power to the mayor’s office…” I’ve got no opinion on the issue yet but I can’t understand why Charter Commission members (Bill Beck, Peter Dahlen, David Emery, Jayne Hager Dee, Victor Summa, Elaine Thurston, Gina Washburn) aren’t communicating at all with the public on this issue – or anything else. There are no minutes on their City web page since May; and they’ve provided no updates in any of the Board And Commission Memos that began this spring – not April, May, June, or July. The Captain would not be happy.

Public leadership, transparency and the world of social media

levy-articlePaul Levy “They all get the idea that if we’re transparent about what we’re bad at as well as what we’re good at, we’ll get better.”  That’s a quote by Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, speaking about his staff. Levy maintains a leadership blog called Running a hospital where he regularly shares “thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues.” You can also follow Levy on Twitter.

I’ve been thinking about Northfield area public leadership, transparency, and social media tools this week for four reasons. (continued)

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