I attended my first City Council Meeting on February 5, 2020. It was an interesting meeting. As I’m hoping to get more involved in the city and because I’ve recently joined the Sigourney Area Development Corporation (SADC) Board, this seems like a great way to do it. Below are some brief notes I took. Update:…
Building a Membership Association
Introduction Membership associations or organizations are groups of like-minded people who join together in order to receive certain benefits like networking, access to events, training and others. Examples of membership organizations include trade associations, like the American Farm Bureau, service clubs like the Rotary, and geographically-bound organizations like Chambers of Commerce or economic development agencies….
Writing Use Cases in Business Analysis
Introduction Use cases are one of the documents that a Business Analyst might produce during the course of developing a piece of software. As business analysts perform requirement analysis (determining what you actually need to be able to do with a given program or piece of software), the use case helps you accomplish this by…
How to Raise Municipal Revenues While Reducing Inequality
Introduction Municipalities are funding their budgets pushed to the brink. In many communities, the tax base is declining (Augustine, Bell, Brunori & Youngman, 2009) while the amount of services expected by residents is staying the same, or even increasing. In some cases, functions formerly performed by the state or federal governments are being “downloaded” to…
The Importance of Open Data in Municipal Governments
Introduction “Open data” describes the provision of datasets describing activities from a company, organization, or government for public use. (Josefin, 2019) Open data can be provided by scientists (who probably pioneered the concept), but also by cities, companies and others who wish for others to have access to the data they produce to ensure that…