BSS are the "one-stop" agency for Special Events permits. If your Neighborhood Council is planning a festival, street fair, health fair, carnival, or other public event of this kind, you will need a BSS Special Event permit. BSS processes permits for all events happening on the Public Right of Way (street, sidewalk, etc) except for [...]
Wednesday June 27th, join us in Panorama City for a free workshop on using open data to spark community change! Help your Neighborhood Council get grants and plan outreach campaigns by learning how to find and use info from City databases about the people, assets, and businesses in your area. Please bring your own laptop or tablet [...]
Through our Open Data Literacy Program, you and your Neighborhood Council can host or sponsor a free workshop on how to find, navigate, and use City data on population density, demographics, locations of active businesses, street cleanliness, and more. The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment in collaboration with the Mayor's Data Team is proud to lead [...]
Wednesday May 30th in Boyle Heights - join us for a free workshop on using open data to spark community change! Learn how to obtain and use information from City databases about the people, assets, and businesses in your neighborhood to help your Neighborhood Council get grants and plan outreach campaigns. Please bring your own laptop or tablet [...]
Join EmpowerLA, the LA Mayor's Office, and USC's Sol Price Center for Social Innovation for free training on using Open Data to spark meaningful change in your community!  A limited number of computers are available for your use, or you may bring your own laptop. RSVP to reserve your space now at http://tiny.cc/DataTraining  Date: [...]
“Open data” is information that is available to everyone free of charge. On Friday, March 2nd, EmpowerLA teams up with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Data Team and the USC Price Center for Social Innovation to present Open Data Day LA - a hands-on training on how to access data made available by the City of LA, [...]
Good photo titles can greatly improve your Neighborhood Council’s online presence and at the same time, make your outreach more ADA accessible. Learn how to create effective, attention-getting image titles, and where to apply them. This is Part 5 in a series on how SEO (search engine optimization) can increase your Council’s online presence and [...]
When someone searches for your Neighborhood Council online, your meta description is the first thing they see. Meta descriptions are the short website summaries Google and other search engines display, so it’s important that yours clearly describes who your Council is and what you do. Here’s how to find yours, and how to write a [...]
This is the second article in an ongoing Outreach Tip series on SEO and Neighborhood Councils. Successful search engine optimization is driven by keywords and phrases that are correctly chosen and applied. This week, we talk about how to choose the right keywords to help your stakeholders find you online. If you haven’t yet read [...]
SEO, or search engine optimization, is the art of being findable online. While SEO is an entire industry and field of expertise, there are a few simple things you can do to make your Neighborhood Council easier to find by those who are looking online for your Council or for the kind of community services [...]
