I finished my leadership blogging tour for Northern Community Internet on Friday with a presentation to a full-house of 30-40 people at the Grand Rapids Area Library, a very cool-looking library with a giant red chair outside. (Click any of the photo thumbnails to enlarge and the scroll [...]
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I’ll be in the northern Minnesota cities of Bemidji, Brainerd, and Grand Rapids later this week, doing presentations on leadership blogging for the Northern Community Internet, “a network of northern Minnesota communities using the internet to connect to our neighbors and with one another.” It’s a project of KAXE Northern Community Radio and funded [...] The city of Northfield’s civic blogosphere got a boost in the summer of 2004 when a group of government leaders from the U.K. visited Northfield. It encouraged more local citizens and leaders to try blogging, and it helped me get the first of several contracts to work with local councilors in the UK to learn [...] The staff at Himle Horner, a Twin Cities-based public relations/public affairs group, had a little inservice training this morning about blogging. (Click photo to enlarge.) Colin Cox, one of their account executives (lower left front in photo), invited me, WCCO-TV reporter/blogger Jason DeRusha (right), and Ed Kohler (left, blue shirt), blogger and producer of TechnologyEvangelist.com and author of the Jucy Lucy Restaurants (spelling explanation [...]
I did a video tele-conference presentation on community/citizen journalism this morning for the Blandin Foundation’s Broadband Initiative program. Audience members were primarily coordinators in rural Minnesota whose communities had recently gotten broadband internet access with Blandin’s help. A handful of people gathered at the Northern Dakota County Chambers of Commerce office in Eagan where I did [...] |
  
  
 
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