I’ve teamed up with Michael Blaha, Organic Arts, to launch a blogsite for Whitewater Trailblazers, a snowmobile club in SE Minnesota. Jay Mollert, club president, will be blogging soon.
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Pro: it provides a great way to automatically resize originals, linked to the original, and have the text wrap around the image. Con: it has a glitch If you’re using Internet Explorer as your web browser and try to upload a photo with the new Blogger photo upload tool, and if that photo has a space in its file name, it won’t work. This doesn’t happen with Firefox. PS: the fellow above (click image to enlarge) is Fraser Henderson, Northlincsnet in the U.K., whom I’m working with on a proposal for Phase II of the ReadMyDay “civic leadership blogging” project.  I’ve posted 80 photos of today’s Deepening Online Deliberation conference in the DOD photo album.
I’ll be at a conference in Minneapolis today called Deepening Online Deliberation. I met many of the participants last night at a social gathering, held at Andrew Eklund’s Ciceron offices. I may moblog some photos from there today.
Stephanie Kilen is the chief blogger. Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, two British government officials who visited Northfield last summer (see the photo album and the blog post of the visit) are spearheading an International Symposium on Local E-Democracy, to be held in Mpls the last week in July. 
Left to right: Bruce Morlan, Chair, Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org; Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK. On Day 2 (Wednesday, July 27), the plan is to bus conference participants to Northfield for lunch and a post-lunch blogging panel/presentation. I’ve made arrangements for a local Indian restaurant, Northfield Chapati to cater a buffet lunch.  
We’ll serve people on the outdoor patio and new deck at the Contended Cow (both restaurants are clients). If it rains, Chapati can handle 100 people indoors. I’ve reserved the lower level conference room at the Archer House for the post-lunch blogging panel/presentation. I’m planning to divide the blogging panel/presentation into two:
I’m wondering if some of my clients would be interested in using Blogger‘s feature that allows you to post to your blog with an email (that links to a Blogger help page on the topic). I’ve created this post within my email application, Mozilla Thunderbird, with “compose messages in HTML format” turned on. Bold The one problem is that “Mail-to-Blogger does not support images or other attachments.” 
I met with some of the board members of Minnesota Society for Public Health Education (MN SOPHE) today. I’m working with them to launch a group weblog on their website. Left: Crosbey Mwanza, a Fanning Fellow at the Kettering Foundation and CEO of the Swaziland Institute of Mass Communication (SIMACOM). Center: Donica Mensing, Assistant Professor of Journalism and director of Graduate Studies at UNR. Donica is one of the people filling in for Len Witt on his Public Journalism Network weblog while he’s in South America. Right: Cole Campbell, Dean of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism. Update Jan. 2007: I’ve changed the link to Cole Cambell, as he was recently killed in a car accident. 
It’ll melt quickly, but last night’s snow squall left a spectacular coating.
I’m leaving Squaw Valley and the CSG spring conference this morning. I’m heading to the University of Nevada Reno to meet with Cole Campbell, Dean of the Journalism School. And then I head home to Northfield.  
While the snow was falling outside last night, attendees at CSG’s spring conference kept warm by schmoozing and dancing. 
See full-size versions of these and several dozen other photos in the CSG Spring Conference photo album.
My fellow blogger panelists Rep. Steve Urquhart (above left) and Rep. Aaron Pena at the CSG conference in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe. I see Aaron has already posted to his blog today about the session. 
Our presentation was incorporated into CSG’s Technology Working Group meeting which was co-chaired by (left) Rep. Mike Murphy, Indiana and Rep. Jeff Morris, Washington.
My presentation highlighted the blogging Rep. Ray Cox who was unable to attend. Click my photo for a larger view and you’ll see a his weblog highlighted on the screen.  I’m in the lodge of the Resort at Squaw Valley, preparing for my blogging presentation to a group of state legislators in about an hour for the Council of State Governments. 
I had breakfast with these two gentlemen from Alaska. They told me they were important so I Googled them to see. Left: Gary Stevens is Senate majority leader; Representative John Coghill is House majority leader. (Those links are to their pages on the legislature’s web site.) Rep. Coghill has his own website. Sen. Stevens has a page on the AK Republicans site, as does Rep. Coghill. 
I sent the above photo to my blog with my cell phone. This is a form of moblogging. When taking pictures of yourself, it’s also known as ego-blogging.  
Scott Neal, Eden Prairie City Manager, client, and U.K. trip colleague, has a feature article in the June 2005 issue of Public Management, the magazine of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). 
It’s titled What About Those Blogs? Is the newest electronic �narrative� useful or problematic? and is currently only available online to subscribers.
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Scott graciously invited me to contribute to the piece so I worked with Public Management’s editor 
