Staying Updated & Connecting with Others
LGOL offers a number of facilities to promote discussions, both within and across local government organisations and with the public and community groups. The two most popular forms of communication are our online groups and discussion list facilities.
How do the Lists and Groups Work?
There are over 200,000 people subscribed to the lists who collectively send and receive almost 500,000 communications each month! The lists operate as a virtual team or community of your peers where you can pose a question regarding a problem issue or idea that you have come across in your day to day work or on a special project and every other person that works in local government in the same role as you will be able to share their thoughts, ideas and potential solutions. It helps you keep up-to-date with
current issues and provides the ability to utilise the experience of others in the same situation. They even have a cool archive facility where you can look up the answers to a question someone asked last week, last month or even last year!
The online groups function in a similar way to the list except the primary interface is via a web portal, as opposed to email used for the lists.
LGOL also provides a similar service to councils and councillors as a method of being able to easily keep in touch with their communities.
Who can join?
The lists are generally restricted to New Zealand local government employees or those carrying out work in the sector. There are some exceptions to this, the most prominent being the WHATSNEW list. LGOL What's New is a bi-weekly news round up of what is happening in the sector sent each Monday and Thursday. This mailing list is open to anyone that wishes to receive the What's New updates
How do I join?
Subscribe to a list by emailing listserv@listserv.localgovt.co.nz with subscribe and the group name in the body of the email
To subscribe to one of the Online Groups email techdirector@localgovt.co.nz with details of the groups that you would like to join and your job title, council and other contact details.
The group I want isn't on the list!
LGOL is always happy to add lists to extend the availability of the facility to elected members and other government agencies with a need to communicate regularly with interest groups. Email LGOL's Technical Director, Bob Vine, at techdirector@localgovt.co.nz to discuss the creation of a List to meet your needs.
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Current Discussion Groups & Mailing Lists
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Who can join
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Sponsors & Other Info
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| WHATSNEW | Sign up to LGOL What's New to receive updates of local government news and events twice a week |  |
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COUNCILLORS
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Elected members list. Be sure to sign up here to make sure you receive updates about the 2010 elections portal.
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CANDIDATES
| Candidates for the 2010 local government elections that are not already elected members. Be sure to sign up here to make sure you receive updates about the 2010 elections portal. | |
| ANIMALCONTROL |
Animal Control Officers and Contractors | |
| APLM
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Association Public Library Managers | |
| ARTS | Those responsible for arts & culture activities or programmes | |
| ASSETMGRS |
Community Infrastructure Managers & INGENIUM Members | |
| BLDGCONTROL |
Building Controllers & Regulatory Group Managers | |
| BYLAWS | For staff involved in bylaw-making and review | |
| CEO |
Council CEOs | |
| COL |
LGOL Community Online Users | |
| COMDEV |
Community Development | |
| COMFAC | Community Facilities & Recreation Managers | |
| COMMITTADVRS |
Committee Secretaries/Advisors | |
| COMMSMGRS |
Communications Managers and Media Officers | http://groups.localgovt.co.nz |
| COMMSAFETY | Community Safety | |
| CS-VUEUSERS | Online resource consent compliance management Forum |
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| CUSTSERVICES |
Customer Services | |
| DESIGN | "Communicate through good design" | |
| DUNEDINCOMBRDS | Dunedin City Community Board Members | |
| ECONDEV | Council & Agency/Trust Economic Development Managers | |
| EMERGMAN | Emergency Management | |
| EVENTSWGTON | Coordination of major events in the Wellington Region | |
| FAMILYVIOLENCE
| Family Violence workstream of local & central government Social Issues Forum | |
| FINANCE | Finance Managers/Directors | |
| G9FORUM | Corporate Services & Finance Directors in the G9 group of councils | |
| GEACUSERS | GEAC User Group | |
| GIS | Personnel with GIS responsibilities | |
| GOFORMSDISCUSS | Users of LGOL GoForms | |
| HEALTH-SAFETY |
Health and Safety Professionals | |
| HRMGRS |
Human Resource Managers | |
| IMTOOLKIT |
User group for ALGIM's IMTOOLKIT product | |
| INFOMGRS |
Information and Records Managers | |
| ITMGRS |
Information Technology Managers | |
| ITPROGRAMMERS |
IT Programmers | |
| KIDSVOTING | Giving school students the opportunity of an authentic voting experience | |
| LAPA | Local Authority Property Association (Inc) | |
| LEGCOMPLIANCECHAMPS |
SOLGM Legal Compliance Programme | |
| LGLAWYERS |
Legal personnel | |
| LGLIBRARIANS |
Corporate Librarians and Researchers | |
| LGPLANNERS |
Planning and Resource Management | |
| LGECOLNETWORK |
Ecologists working in local government, with a focus on terrestrial and wetland ecology, and working with communities and private landowners. | |
| LIMS | Forum for issues relating to LIMs | |
| MAORI-POLICY |
Maori Policy Discussion | |
| MAYORS-CHAIRS |
Mayors and Chairs of New Zealand Councils | |
| NCSUSERS |
NCS User Group | |
| NETADMIN |
Network Administrators | |
| NEVICITMGRS | North East Victoria IT Managers. "Goodwill" group for IT Managers
in NE Victoria, Australia. For further information please email italerts@indigoshire.vic.gov.au | |
| NZCOMMBRDS | For Community Board Members nationwide | |
| NZPPOF | New Zealand Pollution Prevention Officers Forum | |
| PA | Personal Assistants and Executive Secretaries | |
| PKGENFORCEMENT | Parking Control personnel | |
| POLICY | Policy Analysts/Advisors/Strategists | |
| PRFO | Principal Rural Fire Officers | |
| PROCUREMENTCOP | Public Sector Procurement Community of Practice. Enables approved COP members from right across local and central government to share procurement experiences, ideas and knowledge. Sponsored by the Government Procurement Development Group of the Ministry of Economic Development and supported by the Procurement Advisory Group, Local Government New Zealand, and Local Government Online. | |
| PROCURENZ | This list will be of interest to all Council officers
working in a Procurement team or involved in purchasing,tendering,
setting or managing contracts (excludes employment contracts) | |
| RATESWGTON | Wellington Regional Rating Officers | |
| RATING | Rating Officers | |
| READYNETREVIEW | Newsletters from Emergency Preparedness Network Readynet |  |
| REGULATORY | Regulatory Managers/Officers | |
| REP-REVIEWS | Representation Review discussion | |
| RISKMANAGEMENT | Risk Management in Local Government (Owner: dmackay@solgm.org.nz ) |  |
| RMAADMIN |
Forum for RMA Administrators | |
| RMG | Risk Managers Group | http://groups.localgovt.co.nz |
| RMAENFORCEMENT | Assuring compliance under the RMA | |
| RO | Electoral Officers | |
| RURAL-ISSUES | Rural Council Mayors and Chief Executives | |
| SENDIS | Disability & Seniors Advisors in Councils | |
| SCHOOLTRAVELPLANS | School Travel Planning | |
| STRAT-CORPLANNING | Strategic/Corporate Planning | |
| STVELECTORAL | STV Elections management | |
| SUSTAINABLETRANSPORT | Transport planners in local and central government | |
| TECHNOLOGYONEUSERS | TechnologyOne Users Group (Contact: Hamish_Murray@TECHNOLOGYONECORP.COM ) |  |
| WAIKATOBOP-RCA | Waikato & Bay of Plenty Road Control Authorities | |
| WASTEMANAGEMENT | Waste Management and Recycling Forum | |
| WEB | Website Managers | http://groups.localgovt.co.nz |
| WOMENMGRS | Women Managers in Local Government |
