Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, two British government officials who visited Northfield last summer (see the photo album and the blog post of the visit) are spearheading an International Symposium on Local E-Democracy, to be held in Mpls the last week in July.
Left to right: Bruce Morlan, Chair, Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org; Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK.
On Day 2 (Wednesday, July 27), the plan is to bus conference participants to Northfield for lunch and a post-lunch blogging panel/presentation.
I’ve made arrangements for a local Indian restaurant, Northfield Chapati to cater a buffet lunch.
We’ll serve people on the outdoor patio and new deck at the Contended Cow (both restaurants are clients). If it rains, Chapati can handle 100 people indoors.
I’ve reserved the lower level conference room at the Archer House for the post-lunch blogging panel/presentation.
I’m planning to divide the blogging panel/presentation into two:
- Formal adoption (“top down”) of blogging by a city
This would feature the work of the three Eden Pairie manager/bloggers: City Manager Scott Neal, Police Chief Dan Carlson, and Fire Chief George Esbensen.
- Grassroots (“trickle up”) blogging in a region
This would focus on Northfield’s civic blogosphere project and some of the local civic leader bloggers.
