Griff Wigley

Scenes from the National Civic Summit party at Mill City Museum

 

Target Corp. hosted quite a bash last night at the Mill City Museum in downtown Mpls for the National Civic Summit’s opening night party and Tweet-Up. The FREE conference continues today and tomorrow at the Mpls. Hilton.

Future of the Web event

Citizens League Executive Director and chief blogger Sean Kershaw (left) launched this morning’s Summer Policy series event titled The Future of the Web and Civic Engagement: What Happens When MySpace Meets Our Space? held at The Forum at Minnesota Public Radio. (Click photos to enlarge.)

I recorded the forum. Click play to listen. 1 hour, [...]

Cow Parade visits Budapest

The Cow Parade is in Budapest until September. Click photos to enlarge.

It’s generating some controversy here. A couple weeks ago, one of them was removed. See this story and a photo of the melting blue cow in this Budapest Sun article: CowParade turns heads in the city. This Budapest blogger wrote about it, [...]

Favorite shots

Four favorite photos from my two hours of Budapest tourism yesterday (click to enlarge): Left: the setting sun hung on the edge of this small thunderhead for nearly an hour.Left center: the largest billboards I’ve ever seen outside of Times Square, on the sides of buildings to the right of the tunnel under [...]

Mysterious fountain

Of all the sites I took photos of yesterday, this water fountain on the Buda side near the Castle was one of the more intriguing. If you can translate the words, please attach a comment. And yes, the fountain does remind me of the same thing that you’re thinking. Click the photos to [...]

Utne alum party

I worked at the magazine Utne Reader (now just called “Utne”) for most of the 90s. Last week, the magazine announced that it had been purchased Ogden Publications in Kansas.

Many former employees gathered at the Kitty Kat Club in Dinkytown on Thursday night. See the dozen photos in this Flickr album set.

Flickr automatically creates several [...]

Heartland Circle’s Happy Hour

I attended a Heartland Circle Happy Hour last night, courtesy of the firm's co-founders, Patricia Neal and Craig Neal. They hosted an informal gathering of some of their area members at the Enjoy! restaurant in Apple Valley. Click photos to enlarge.

Left: Yogiraj Achala, Vonda Vaden, Patricia Neal, Craig Neal, unidentified, Francois Paradeise, unidentifiedRight: [...]

At the e-Gov Expo at ExCel London

We're at the e-Gov Expo at London's ExCel Centre, right on the Royal Victoria Dock. Center: in the local e-democracy booth, the gang from Northlincsnet: David Ritson, Isobel Harding, Fraser Henderson. Click photos to enlarge and see 6 more at the bottom of page 2 of the photo album. I have a Leadership [...]

City of York Council

I met this morning at the City of York Council (I took the photo in the middle last night) with ReadMyDay blogger and Councillor Andy D'agorne, Richard Lane, political assistant for the local Green Party (Richard and Andy in photo above), Councillor Quentin MacDonald, and Liberal Democrat political assistant Kate Hudson.

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York photos

I finally got an internet connection at noon today (Sunday) at the Evil Eye Lounge here in the center of the walled city of York. Frustrating. But it gave some time last night and this morning to wander about taking photos.  Here are three (click to enlarge) and I've put up a [...]

Photos: A day in Kingston

 

I spent the day in Kingston but I don't have time to blog about it, as I'm off to Blackheath Village in Lewisham for dinner with Councillor Andrew Brown.  In the meantime, you can peruse the 15 photos I took today and posted in the 2006 UK trip photo album.

Photos – Lord Erroll event in London

I’ve added ten photos of today’s event to the 2006 UK trip photo album.

Moblogging from the House of Lords

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We are here!

MAGC Photos

Some photos from today’s MAGC luncheon on blogging: Left: John Logie; left center: Scott Neal; right center: Julie Lehr, City of Woodbury with Scott Neal; right: City of Eden Prairie Communications Manager Pat Brink with Neal and two unidentified women. Click photos to enlarge.

Are you Frank?

I was a guest presenter at The Frank seminar yesterday in Minneapolis, hosted by a team of collaborators called Are You Frank? “Authentic branding through social media.”

(See my FlickR album photos of the event.)

The Frank collaborators: Elissa Gjertson, JP Meyers, John Nielson, and Andrew Eklund.

Among the other guest presenters: Tom Bartel, publisher of The [...]