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      <title>311 and citizen request management for smaller cities</title>
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      <description>Big cities have 311. Smaller cities, towns and counties need the same results on a smaller budget. What citizen request management involves.</description>
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      <title>Citizen service requests: how councils take reports</title>
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      <description>How councils take service requests from residents: the channels, triage, customer request management and how to close the loop with the resident.</description>
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      <title>Moving off an old council finance system: a plan</title>
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      <description>A practical plan to move a council off an old finance system: scope, data, timing, testing, cutover and the people who make it work.</description>
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      <title>ERP for local government: from report to work order</title>
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      <description>What a council ERP does, which modules it holds, and how a resident's report can become a customer request and then a costed work order.</description>
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      <title>Localtech Eye apps are in App Store and Google Play review</title>
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      <description>The Localtech Eye apps for iPhone and Android are in review at Apple and Google. Until then, you can report a problem on the Localtech Eye website.</description>
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      <title>Requests for service in New Zealand councils</title>
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      <description>How a request for service works in New Zealand district and city councils, who looks after what, and what makes a report a council can act on.</description>
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      <title>Who fixes the pothole? How to report it to your council</title>
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      <description>Council road or state road? Who is responsible for fixing potholes in Australia, and how to report a pothole so the right crew can find it.</description>
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      <title>From resident report to work order: closing the loop</title>
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      <description>How a council can turn a resident's report into a customer request, a costed work order and a status update to the resident, with no retyping.</description>
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      <title>Issue reporting software for small and rural councils</title>
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      <description>Small and rural councils take most reports by phone and email. What to look for in an issue reporting app when your team and budget are small.</description>
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      <title>Localtech Eye and Snap Send Solve compared</title>
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      <description>A fair, factual look at Snap Send Solve and Localtech Eye: what each app does, who it serves, how reports reach councils and where each one is available.</description>
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      <title>Council reporting in the UK: potholes, lights, fly-tipping</title>
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      <description>How UK residents report potholes, faulty street lights and fly-tipping to the local authority, and what councils need from a reporting channel.</description>
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      <title>What happens after you report a problem to your council</title>
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      <description>You reported a pothole, a broken light or dumped rubbish. Here is what usually happens inside the council next, and how you hear back.</description>
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