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Scenes from the National Civic Summit party at Mill City Museum

By Griff Wigley, on July 16th, 2009

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

By Griff Wigley, on August 22nd, 2006

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, 5 minutes, 22 seconds.

I found myself a little disappointed with the event. I wanted to hear more stories… stories that would illustrate the what the future of the web could be for civic engagement, public problem-solving and policy-making. I don’t remember much about the discussion but I do remember two stories: Jean King’s story about Gov. Al Quie and Roger Moe; and Steve Borsch’s story about visiting the Eden Prairie public library.

I also was hoping to hear more about the forces — systemic or otherwise — that are both helping and impeding the constructive use of these Web 2.0 technologies in the public sphere. That would’ve generated more discussion about what steps could be taken by citizens, civic organizations, and yes, policy-makers to address these forces.

Left photo, L to R: moderator Jack Uldrich, panelists Jean LeVander King and Steve Borsch.
Right photo, L to R: panelists Garrick Van Buren,Tom Swain, and Jen Alstad.

During the post-event schmoozing, I had a chance to talk with (L to R) Steve Borsch, Steve Clift, and Garrick Van Buren. And then Mr. Clift and I retired to the MPR lobby to chat further in the way-cool audio-enhancing pod chairs. Amazingly easy to hear one another. And yes, that’s an apple core in my mouth.

Aug. 22 Update: Victoria Ford has a set on Flickr of 60 photos from the event.

Aug. 23 1 pm update: AAAARRRGGGGGHHHH!! I mistakenly deleted this blog entry earlier today and had to ask my beloved webhosting company, Tiger Technologies, to restore the site from a midnight backup. They’ve done it but two comments were lost so I’ve manually replaced them. Apologies to Steve and Mike.

Cow Parade visits Budapest

By Griff Wigley, on July 26th, 2006

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, too.

Favorite shots

By Griff Wigley, on July 26th, 2006

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 the Castle.
Right center: Chain Bridge
Right: Parliament

Mysterious fountain

By Griff Wigley, on July 26th, 2006

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 enlarge.

Utne alum party

By Griff Wigley, on June 10th, 2006

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 sizes of the photo, up to 800 pixels-wide. If anyone wants one of more of the originals, suitable for printing, let me know.

Heartland Circle’s Happy Hour

By Griff Wigley, on May 10th, 2006

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, unidentified
Right: Mary Hamann-Roland, Matthew Rochte, Craig Neal

Left: Dave Labno, Don Thomas, Loretta Anderson, Russ Schoen, Myron Lowe
Right: Virginia Selleck, Cheryl Persigehl, Dave Labno, Don Thomas, Loretta Anderson

At the e-Gov Expo at ExCel London

By Griff Wigley, on April 5th, 2006

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 Blogging and Podcasting presentation (break-out session) at 2 pm.

City of York Council

By Griff Wigley, on April 3rd, 2006

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.

More photos at the bottom of page 2 of the photo album.

It's now 1:30 pm and I'm about to catch the train to Selby for a meeting with councillors there tonight.

York photos

By Griff Wigley, on April 2nd, 2006

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 dozen+ more at the bottom of page 1 and top of page 2 of the UK photo album.

Photos: A day in Kingston

By Griff Wigley, on March 31st, 2006

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

By Griff Wigley, on March 29th, 2006

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

Moblogging from the House of Lords

By Griff Wigley, on March 29th, 2006

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We are here!

MAGC Photos

By Griff Wigley, on March 8th, 2006

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?

By Griff Wigley, on March 1st, 2006

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 Rake; Matt Bartel, host of MNSpeak; Robert Metcalf, founder of FlySpy.

Among the attendees I met: Renee Austin, USA coordinator for Give Us Wings who’s also known as a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist; Andre Bergeron, head honcho at Babble On Recording Studios; and Laura Dockery, marketing director for Solutia Consulting.