Griff Wigley, Wigley and Associates
- I’m a seminar leader and a weblog coach, helping business, non-profit, government and civic leaders learn the art of strategic leadership blogging and podcasting.
- I work with organizations interested in developing place-based citizen media/citizen journalism projects, similar to Northfield.org and Locally Grown.
- I help organizations with geographically-distributed employees/contractors use web-based, project/team collaboration tools for their internal communications
- I help organizations create online social networks (for customers, members, users, constituents); I also set up and moderate time-limited web forums/online events, primarily on public policy issues for government and non-profit organizations.
I’ve pretty much made my living online since 1986, primarily building online communities, both topic- and geographic-based. I was project director for MIX, the McGraw-Hill Information Exchange for Teachers and Schools (1986-90) and Utne Reader magazine’s Cafe Utne (1995-97) which won a Webby Award for community in May, 2000. I co-founded Northfield Citizens Online and the Northfield.org community portal (1995-2006), and launched their citizen journalism/civic blogosphere project in 2004. I’ve been a co-host of Locally Grown, a civic-issues podcast and weblog since 2005.
My first career spanned 15 years as a family therapist and school social worker (1971-86). I graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a BA in Philosophy and received my Masters in Human Development from St. Mary’s University.
More about me on my personal home page.