By Griff Wigley, on September 7th, 2009
 I’ve set up a new site called Blogging For Leaders (BLF). It’s an interactive learning environment (ILE) designed to help people use blogs and other social media tools in their roles as leaders.
I’ve been a leadership blogging coach since 2003, and have worked with business and non-profit executives, politicians, government officials, education administrators, small business owners, and community leaders.
I’m taking what I’ve learned (and what my clients have taught me) and putting it into a structured online course. And I will be wrapping an online community of learners around it with a web forum where I’ll moderate the discussions, provide some coaching, and gather ongoing feedback on how to improve the offering.
Currently, the course and forum are only open to those leaders associated with a couple of my client organizations
That will change later this fall.
By Griff Wigley, on February 19th, 2009
Last week, my wife Robbie and I set up a blog site for the Valley Pond Townhouse Association where we’re members. The townhouses surround Hidden Valley Park in Northfield, Minnesota on three sides.
By Griff Wigley, on September 27th, 2007
 Wigley and Associates has a new world headquarters. We’ve sold our house and moved to a townhouse in Northfield at 1133 Heritage Drive, about a mile south from our Linden St. house. (We’re now downsized empty-nesters. We’re renting the townhouse on a month-to-month basis while we try to resolve our condo situation. I blogged about The Crossing in Northfield and Mendota Homes yesterday on Locally Grown.)
I’ve taken the opportunity to drop my landline so mobile and Skype are now the ways to reach me for phone/audio chatting. See my Contact page for details.
By Griff Wigley, on July 19th, 2006
Last week, I posted an entry here titled Using email lists for weblog notification like I knew what I was talking about. For those of you who got my email notification via the Zoodoka service, you probably noticed a small problem: it didn’t work.
I should have taken more time to test it out over a week or more, which I’ve now started doing. I still don’t know whether the problem was my lack of understanding or a glitch with their service. Regardless, my apologies.
I’m back to using Dada Mail (formerly known as Mojo Mail) for the emailing of weblog headlines once a month or so until I’m more sure that a switchover will work.
By Griff Wigley, on June 22nd, 2006
  
I blogged back in April about my March meeting in London with Mike Alderson, former UK police officer who now has his own consulting firm, Open Eye Communications. (Photo above is actually from the first time we met in London in2005.)
We’re now teaming up to offer leadership blogging coaching and seminars to the law enforcement community in Europe and the US. See the PDF flyer for more details as well as Mike’s posts about police leadership blogging and our collaboration.
By Griff Wigley, on June 14th, 2006
 I have a couple of leaders now who are ready to make selective use of the WordPress comment feature.
So I’m experimenting with it here to find the best way to make it easy for the site visitors, yet prevent spammers from abusing it.
Upon the recommendation of this recent message thread in the WordPress forums, I’ve enabled the Askimet, Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma 2 plug-ins, while avoiding the Captcha approach.
I’ve turned on comments and trackbacks on this and all future blog entries to see if it works.
By Griff Wigley, on May 19th, 2006
I’ve added a little gizmo to my right sidebar here that indicates whether or not I’m currently logged into my Skype account.
For geographically distributed teams, I see this form of instant messaging (real-time voice and/or text chat) as the equivalent of showing up at an office, hanging your coat on a rack near your workspace, and turning on the lights — all little cues to your colleagues that “I’m here. I’m around. I’m available to talk/collaborate/socialize.”
By Griff Wigley, on March 18th, 2006
I've set up a web message board to host discussion forums on learning leadership blogging for clients. First up: the ReadMyDay U.K. project.
Register anytime and when I see your registration come through, I'll assign you to a forum that's specific to your role. While you're waiting, post a note in the online Pub and order up a refreshment.
By Griff Wigley, on March 8th, 2006
 I’m experimenting with some WordPress themes, trying to come up with something that works well with my logo as well as doesn’t wreak havoc. I may wait to decide till the WP 2.0 design competition is over before I decide. In the meantime, be prepared for variety. 
By Griff Wigley, on March 7th, 2006
I've started work on putting up a web version (2005 U.K. edition) of the Guide to Civic Leadership Blogging. While the PDF version is handy for printing out, I need a web version that's divided up on many different pages so that I can link to specific sections when coaching leaders via email or web forums.
I hope to have it all done by the time I depart for the U.K. in 3 weeks.
By Griff Wigley, on March 1st, 2006
I've decided it's too confusing and too hard to have two weblogs related to my business so I'm incorporating leadershipblogging.com into this blog and redirectiing the domain name here.
By Griff Wigley, on March 1st, 2006
I’ve started converting some of my clients’ weblogs from Blogger and Movable Type over to WordPress, so I decided I’d better do the same for myself.
What could go wrong?
6:30 am update: Looks like the import went aok. I’ve got the Contact and About pages back up. I’ve got a few others to do but that will have to wait till later this week.
8:00 am update: I’m using a Feedburner RSS feed instead of the default WP feed. And
I’ve started creating some new blog entry categories, one of the major elements missing from Blogger.
By Griff Wigley, on January 14th, 2006
A 2 minute 12 second conversation with Farley Peters. This is considered “audioblogging.” If we decided to do this regularly, we would create a podcast show so that people could subscribe to it and listen to it using software on their PCs, like iTunes. And if they owned an iPod or similar device, they could do likewise.
I used Skype Out to phone her land line (1/10 of 1 cent/minute). I used a PC application called Total Recorder to record the conversation. I snipped off the extraneous audio at the beginning and the end using a program called Wavepad. (Many people use a program called Audacity for both recording and editing.)
I uploaded the finished audio file (wav) format to my account at audioblog.com ($5/month) and then “blogged it” here. The file plays in the blog entry via Flash, which 99% of the world has built-in to their browsers. This avoids the hassles that people have with players such as Quicktime, Real Audio, Windows Media, etc.
I do a local issues podcast here in Northfield called Locally Grown. Last Sunday’s episode was recorded with two of us in Cambridge UK and three others in Northfield.
I’ve been hired to do a new podcast in the UK for the International Centre of Excellence for Local e-Democracy. Our first show was recorded in London last week.
I’ve been hired to produce a podcast for 1,000 mile fundraising bicycle trip in the UK. I recorded the first episode earlier this week.
I’ve been hired by a the local edemocracy program in the UK’s Office of Deputy Prime Minister to produce podcasts during two edemocracy conferences this summer, one in Budapest and the other in Baltimore.
I’ve got several clients who’ve hired me to help them launch their podcasts. First to launch: Charlie Kyte, Exec. Director of the MN Assoc. of School Administrators. See his blog titled Voice of MN Education.
Of course, I have my own podcast on Leadership Blogging.
So as you can see, in the short span of 3 months, I’m now a podcasting expert!
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