I have a new part-time gig as Executive Director of Northfield Citizens Online, the non-profit in my hometown of Northfield, Minnestoa, USA, just south of Lake Wobegon. (We maintain a citizen journalism/civic blogosphere website called Northfield.org.)
I’ve created a new weblog for this new role. I’ve been teaching the art of leadership blogging for the past couple of years. Now I have to actually do it. Oy.
As I explain in this post, “…to help myself get better at my own leadership blogging skills, as well as to have another way to teach others as blog coach, I’ve created these weblog categories to help illustrate the art of civic leadership blogging.”
In other words, nearly every blog entry will be assigned one of these “leadership blogging” categories in addition to other traditional categories:
- Chronicle a decision or current unresolved problem
- Illustrate your values, mission, goals, strategies
- Leverage your media diet
- Point to website changes
- Promote your organization
- Provide recognition
- Reveal aspects of your non-work life
- Teach about a service, program, project, dept.
- Teach about the complexities of an issue
