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Maximize Your Funding With Syncurrent

Maximize Your Funding With Syncurrent

This webinar highlights Syncurrent’s online platform, a resource available to all 351 Massachusetts municipalities to easily identify, qualify for, and pursue state and federal funding opportunities. Recommended audience: all members
Local Aid and FinanceWebinarfreePublication Date: Feb 03, 2026
Digital Accessibility Awareness for Municipalities

Digital Accessibility Awareness for Municipalities

This webinar, with the Commonwealth’s Accessibility Center for Consulting, Education, and Support Services (ACCESS) team, reviews what municipalities need to know regarding digital accessibility for the upcoming Title II deadline. Recommended audience: communications officials, all members
Diversity, Equity and InclusionWebinarfreePublication Date: Jan 14, 2026
Foundations of Crisis Communications

Foundations of Crisis Communications

This webinar provides a practical introduction to crisis communication planning and response. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials, communications officials
Community EngagementWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 20, 2025
Office of the Veteran Advocate (OVA): Resources Available to Municipalities and their Veterans

Office of the Veteran Advocate (OVA): Resources Available to Municipalities and their Veterans

This webinar offers an introduction to the Office of the Veteran Advocate, highlighting ways the agency can support municipalities and providing examples of its work with the town of Ludlow. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials
Municipal OperationsWebinarfreePublication Date: Apr 30, 2025
Empowering Town Boards and Committees: Best Practices for Select Boards

Empowering Town Boards and Committees: Best Practices for Select Boards

The Massachusetts Select Board Association discusses strategies for empowering town boards and committee members, including outreach and communication, interviewing and onboarding. Recommended audience: Select board members
Municipal GovernanceWebinarPublication Date: Mar 12, 2025
Mutual Aid During Crisis and Every Day: Severe Weather, Wildfire, and Emergency Medical Services

Mutual Aid During Crisis and Every Day: Severe Weather, Wildfire, and Emergency Medical Services

This webinar gives an overview of the critical importance of mutual aid efforts during wildfires and other disasters, the legal framework, and the various systems in place to ensure that communities have the help they need. Recommended audience: Chief municipal officials
Municipal OperationsWebinarfreePublication Date: Jan 16, 2025
Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: The Customer Connectors

Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: The Customer Connectors

This webinar discusses how to leverage emotional intelligence to meet customer needs, defuse public anger, and disarm demeaning behavior while using active listening to build rapport and bolster the ability to express empathy. Recommended audience: All members
Municipal OperationsWebinarpaidPublication Date: Feb 14, 2024
Communication Foundations: Essential Skills for Setting Expectations and Delegating

Communication Foundations: Essential Skills for Setting Expectations and Delegating

This session explores how to send and receive messages effectively, including clearly communicating expectations, resetting expectations after communication failures, and best practices for delegation.
Municipal OperationsWebinarpaidPublication Date: Oct 17, 2023
Questions Every CEO Should Be Asking Their Assessing Department

Questions Every CEO Should Be Asking Their Assessing Department

The local assessing function was the topic of a Massachusetts Municipal Management Association webinar on May 18 led by Chris Wilcock, bureau chief of local assessment at the Division of Local Services.
Municipal OperationsWebinarfreePublication Date: May 18, 2023
#StopRansomware Guide

#StopRansomware Guide

Developed through the U.S. Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF)
Municipal OperationsGuidancepdf - 1,021 KBPublication Date: May 01, 2023
Coping With Conflict: Internal Resolution Strategies webinar

Coping With Conflict: Internal Resolution Strategies webinar

This webinar highlights strategies for effective internal conflict management, including in the municipal workplace and within volunteer committees and councils, and for negating its negative effects and maintaining a positive and healthy work culture.
Municipal OperationsWebinarfreePublication Date: Mar 28, 2023
MSA Legislative Recap

MSA Legislative Recap

The MMA legislative team provided a recap of the 2022 legislative session, as well as an in-depth discussion of some issues of particular importance to select boards.
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Sep 09, 2022
MMA Legislative Recap

MMA Legislative Recap

Members of the MMA’s Legislative Division covered key items that passed (or didn’t), as well as what’s on the horizon. They also answered questions from members.
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Aug 18, 2022
ITS78 Data, Cybersecurity and related Audit, Compliance and Incident Response Services

ITS78 Data, Cybersecurity and related Audit, Compliance and Incident Response Services

Mass. Dept. of Operational Services Division webinar presentation, June 14, 2022
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 6 MBPublication Date: Jun 14, 2022
Municipal Risk Management 101

Municipal Risk Management 101

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association and the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association, this webinar focuses on how to identify, monitor and address risks in municipalities.
Municipal GovernmentWebinarPublication Date: Jun 21, 2022
Technology and Staffing Needs for Virtual and Hybrid Public Meetings

Technology and Staffing Needs for Virtual and Hybrid Public Meetings

A Massachusetts Select Board Association webinar discussed the technology and staffing resources required for municipalities to run successful virtual and hybrid meetings.
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Jun 15, 2022
Cybersecurity for Councillors

Cybersecurity for Councillors

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Councillors' Association
Municipal GovernmentWebinarPublication Date: Apr 21, 2022
Municipal Law Update

Municipal Law Update

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Municipal attorneys brought attendees up to speed on important developments in municipal law as they relate to Massachusetts cities and towns, in areas such as land use and zoning, municipal finance and taxation, public governance, and other areas with significant developments.
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Jan 31, 2022
The Rules of Engagement: Promoting Civility and Productivity in Council Meetings

The Rules of Engagement: Promoting Civility and Productivity in Council Meetings

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Councillors’ Association
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Sep 14, 2021
Future of Public Meetings

Future of Public Meetings

Presented by the Massachusetts Select Board Association
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Jul 28, 2021
Practical Guide to Town Meetings and Elections During COVID-19

Practical Guide to Town Meetings and Elections During COVID-19

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Select Board Association and the Association of Town Finance Committees
Municipal OperationsWebinarPublication Date: Jun 03, 2020
Managing During Difficult Times

Managing During Difficult Times

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Labor and PersonnelWebinarPublication Date: Apr 09, 2020
Property Sustainability: Protecting Municipal Assets

Property Sustainability: Protecting Municipal Assets

Presentation by Ken Wertz, executive director of the Massachusetts Facilities Administrators Association, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 2 MB
Newest FCC Preemption: Cable Franchising Fees

Newest FCC Preemption: Cable Franchising Fees

Presentation by Gerard Lavery Lederer, partner with Best Best & Krieger and Nancy Werner, general counsel for the National Association of Telecommunication Officers and Advisors, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 578 KB
The FCC and Cable Franchising: What Mass. Cities and Access Centers Need to Know

The FCC and Cable Franchising: What Mass. Cities and Access Centers Need to Know

Presentation by Gerard Lavery Lederer, partner with Best Best & Krieger and Nancy Werner, general counsel for the National Association of Telecommunication Officers and Advisors, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 19 MB
Municipal Law Update, 2020

Municipal Law Update, 2020

Presented by Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 2 MB
MIIA: Best Practices for Cybersecurity

MIIA: Best Practices for Cybersecurity

Provided by MIIA, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Municipal OperationsGuidancepdf - 42 KB
Cybersecurity: What Municipalities Need to Know Now

Cybersecurity: What Municipalities Need to Know Now

Presentation by Mullen Coughlin, LLC, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 6 MB
Shape Your Future - US Census 2020

Shape Your Future - US Census 2020

Presentation by the New York Regional Census center, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 4 MB
Cities Count: Preparing our Communities for the 2020 Census

Cities Count: Preparing our Communities for the 2020 Census

Presentation by National League of Cities, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Municipal OperationsPresentationpdf - 6 MB
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