At tonight’s reception here in Budapest, I had the honor of meeting Etienne Chouard (left – click photo to enlarge), a French citizen who has a very influential, anti-EU Constitution referendum weblog. See this BBC News article from last year for some background: Bloggers take on European elites.

I couldn’t attend his panel session today [...]

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I’ve pulled back on my small business blogging consulting for now and I’ve removed references to it from the sidebars on Leadershipblogging.com. Most of my work now is focused on leadership blogging and citizen journalism. I’ve also removed references to my attempts to write a book on leadership blogging for now, as well as the [...]

It’s not as detailed a blog as I’d hoped (and may never be) but our Cinque Terre weblog from our fall trip is finally up, along with a gallery of 150 carefully selected photos.

Today, I created a podcast for my NCO executive director weblog and made five “shows” — each a rehash of a previous blog post. I used my $5/month account at Audioblog.com to record them and publish them. They take care of the iTunes publishing, too. See this blog post there for more details.

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 [...]

I got an email today from a longtime colleague, Ed Vielmetti, informing me that this blogsite comes up #1 in a Google search for “weblog coach” I then checked MSN (it’s #1 there) and Yahoo (it’s #2 there). Cool.

In yesterday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press business section, reporter Julio Ojeda-Zapata has a story on Buzz Bruggeman, founder and CEO of ActiveWords.

It’s titled, Hitting it big in the blogs: ‘Connection king’ gives tiny firm global reach.

I met Buzz back in Feb of 2004 at Cecily Sommers’ PUSH conference in Minneapolis (where I took the above [...]

Last week I started coaching Elizabeth Schott, Executive Director of the Northfield Area United Way, on the use of their weblog.

I’ve started working with Director Susan Waughtal and the people at RNeighbors (also known as the Rochester Neighborhood Resource Center) to create a citizen/community journalism website called RVoices in Rochester, MN.

It’s intended to be similar to what we’ve created here in my hometown of Northfield, called Northfield.org (operated by the 501c3 non-profit, Northfield Citizens Online [...]

I am experimenting with some different tools to make it easier for posting to blogs, rather than using the default rich text editors that are provided by the blogging platform.

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The big problem with most apps is that they don’t handle full wysiwyg with images/photos very well.  So let’s [...]

We got back from Italy late last night.

Lots to show and tell but until we get the Cinque Terre trip blog and photo album up, this photo of Vernazza (where we stayed for one of the two weeks) will have to suffice.

My wife Robbie and I are heading to Italy for vacation on Tuesday.

We plan to spend our entire two weeks in the Cinque Terre region. (The best photos we’ve found are here.)

According to Rick Steves: “The Cinque Terre… is a series of villages clinging to a remote stretch of the Riviera coastline. Each town is [...]