By Griff Wigley, on July 28th, 2005
Eden Prairie City Manager Scott Neal has blogged about the International Local Edemocracy Symposium here.
Kingston Councillor Mary Reid has posted here, here and here (updated Aug. 1).
Isobel Harding, lead for the Local eDemocracy National Project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, has posted here, here, and here.
 Update Aug. 1: Chuck Olsen (on the left in the screenshot with Steve Clift) has a 3.5 minute videoblog on the Symposium posted to his Minnesota Stories weblog.
Know of others? Let me know!
By Griff Wigley, on July 28th, 2005
 I’ve added a few dozen more photos to the Symposium photo album, the latest (see the album page 3) from last night’s dinnner at Solera in downtown Minneapolis.
All photos are posted in three sizes: thumb, medium, full-size original.
 
Left photo, L to R: Kerrie Oakes, Dept. of Communities, Queensland; Julian Bowrey, Head of Local e-Government, UK Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Jane Ratford, Marketing Lead, UK Local E-democracy National Project and E-Government Advisor, Improvement and Development Agency. — Right photo, L to R: Derek Parkinson, newsletter publisher at Headstar; Angus Ward, Director at Election Systems & Software; Julia Glidden, Accenture eDemocracy Services.
By Griff Wigley, on July 27th, 2005
Today’s field day for the International Symposium on Local E-Democracy took participants to the Minnesota Legislature at the Sate Capitol in St. Paul and to the town of Northfield. See the Symposium photo album for high-resolution images of these and dozens more photos.
Steve Clift, bus tour entertainer
Dylan Jeffrey, legislative photographer
In the MN Senate Chambers.
Isobel Harding with a friend from the past.
Chapati Indian food buffet line at the Contented Cow in Northfield;
Lunch on the outdoor patio overlooking the river.
Uniformed bloggers, cranky about having to wait in line for lunch (L to R): Dan Carslon, Scott Neal, Gary Smith, George Esbensen.
Yuki Ishikawa (L) and Vaman Pai, chowing down on the Cow’s upper deck.
The Northfield and Eden Prairie blogging panel.
Eden Praire City Manager Scott Neal, after receiving a Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames plaque from Councillor Mary Reid. Scott presented the Kingston Council with an Eden Prairie “key to the City” back in Feb.
See the Symposium photo album for high-resolution images of these and dozens more photos.
By Griff Wigley, on July 26th, 2005
I’ve started an International Symposium photo album.
11 AM CT update: There are a dozen photos up.
3:30 PM CT update: There are 40 photos up.
5:00 PM CT, Wed. July 27 update: There are now 79 photos up.
By Griff Wigley, on July 26th, 2005
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This is an influential woman in the world of U.K. edemocracy, Isobel Harding.
By Griff Wigley, on July 25th, 2005
I’ll be at the International Symposium on Local E-Democracy in Minneapolis all day tomorrow.
I plan to moblog some photos from my camera phone and maybe upload higher quality ones taken with my camera, as I’ll have my laptop with me and the conference will have wi-fi.
I may not take many photos, though, as I hope to meet and spend time with colleagues, old and new. Being too photo conscious can sometimes detract from that.
By Griff Wigley, on July 24th, 2005
 Pete Auger, City Manager of Davison, Michigan has hired me to be his weblog coach for his new City Manager weblog.
By Griff Wigley, on July 22nd, 2005
This 4.5 minute video titled “Councillors Blogging” features ReadMyDay councillor bloggers Louise Alexander, Andrew Brown, and Mary Reid. It was produced by Shane McCracken at Big Vote.
By Griff Wigley, on July 20th, 2005
 I’ve teamed up with Collin Wigley, Melted Media, to launch a blogsite for the new United States Motorcycle Trials Association (USMTA).
 Dan Brown, head honcho at the TTC (Trials Training Center – a client) is the chief blogger initially.
By Griff Wigley, on July 20th, 2005
I put this little videoclip together today… promoting next week’s lunch at the Contented Cow in Northfield for attendees of the International Symposium on Local E-Democracy in Minneapolis.
By Griff Wigley, on July 13th, 2005
 I moblogged this photo and audioclip from somewhere in Inver Grove Heights (southern Twin Cities metro) earlier this afternoon where my radiator boiled over for the second time in three days.
It’s not about the radiator, to paraphrase Lance. Or eliciting sympathy. It’s my trying to get better at showing how moblogging can be used when one’s day goes to hell in a handbasket.
And yes, for those clients who are wondering why I’m behind on my work, it’s an excuse.
By Griff Wigley, on July 12th, 2005
I posted this audioblog from my (parked) car on the way back the from the Cities today after meeting with a large corporation about leadership blogging. My dilemma: whether or not to start senior management with an internal blog (aimed solely at employees), an external blog or both.
By Griff Wigley, on July 10th, 2005
This is a short test of Audioblog.com‘s Blogrecorder – the audio version. You just use your computer’s microphone (built-in or attach one to it) to record while connected to their Blogrecorder web page. When you’re done, you just indicate which one of your blogs to to post it too and voila!
It saves timeconsuming steps, ie, having to move the audiofile to your PC and then upload it to your server or weblog. I like it. The only problem I see thus far is that the image of the audio post isn’t visible in Blogger’s compose mode.
By Griff Wigley, on July 10th, 2005
I’ve subscribed to Audioblog.com, a new audio/video blogging service that makes it easier to publish audio and video clips to your weblog.
Audio
Here’s a 6-minute MP3 of my interview with a client, NDDC Executive Director Ross Currier, using this service. I originally had posted it to Northfield.org, using a cumbersome process of FTP’ing the MP3 to the server and manually adding an image. This new service makes it much easier.
Video
I also used my digital camera (a still-photo camera with minimal video capabilities) to video the interview.
But I ended up with two video files and they both needed some simple editing before I combined them into one file.
After a long and frustrating trial and error process, my son Collin steered me to a website called VideoHelp where I found out about a very simple-to-use and free editing program called VirtualHub.
Audioblog.com also has a web-based recording tool called BlogRecorder where you hook your camera or microphone up to your PC and record directly to their website. More on that to come.
By Griff Wigley, on July 5th, 2005
The Winners of the New Statesman New Media Awards 2005 (UK) were announced last week.
In the Elected representative category, ReadMyDay bloggers Cllr Andrew Brown, Cllr Mary Reid and this Read My Day project were nominated.
 
But alas:
For the first time in the history of the New Statesman New Media Awards, the judges have decided not to award a winner in this category. After much discussion and thought, they agreed that none of the shortlisted nominations deserved the accolade. Some of the elected representatives have made massive efforts in creating an interesting online presence. But it was recognised that they have done so with little official help, and mostly by being in a fortunate enough position to draw upon the technical and communication skills required. The result is a postcode lottery for citizens who wish to discover and communicate with their elected representatives online. There have been some efforts to redress this balance: ReadMyDay and Councillor.info are just two examples. But there is still more that needs to be done. The judges believe that elected representatives need more support, training and advice to help them use this media more effectively. In doing so there is a real opportunity for the UK to lead the way in communication between the representative and the represented.
See Mary Reid’s No winner blog post for more. Tim Ireland at Bloggerheads (aka Manic) has a post, too.
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