This sandwich board in the front of one of my regular Northfield coffeeshops, the Goodbye Blue Monday, caught my eye, not only because it’s clever (“Look for us on Facebook & Twitter – but you won’t find us”) but because I’ve been trying to get smarter about how Twitter and Facebook can complement a [...]
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Nate Garvis, Vice President of Government Affairs for Target Corporation (he has a Twitter feed but doesn’t appear to have his own web page), gave a great speech at last week’s National Civic Summit last week titled, “Weaving Civic Fabric Out of Our Tangled Mess.” The pre-speech abstract: Polarization has become a powerful force with social [...] The National Civic Summit is being held in downtown Minneapolis next week, July 15-17. The two-day conference is free and open to the public, though there is a charge for the pre-conference party and National Tweetup at the Mill City Museum on Wed. night. I’ll be attending all three days. The key questions for the [...] I first blogged about Mark Stock two years ago when he was a blogging Superintendent of Schools for the Wawasee Community School Corporation in Indiana. He is now Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Wyoming and maintains a blog called The Stock Mark Report. Mark recently had a book published titled The [...] In today’s Wall St. Journal: All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper; Bloggers are no replacement for real journalists. Paul Mulshine, opinion columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, misses the point when he argues that citizens aren’t likely to voluntarily ‘cover,’ for example, city council meetings for their blogs in the same way that a [...] Minnesota Public Radio’s Public Insight Journalism (PIJ) project hosted a moderated discussion last Friday night in their UBS Forum. A group of about 20 citizens selected from their PIJ database were invited to discuss the topic: The Press and the Public: What’s the new relationship? A group of about 10 attendees from the Journalism That [...] What is twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Like my colleague Michael Fraase, I tried Twitter a few times when it was first introduced but it didn’t ‘take hold’ for me. But [...] 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 [...] David Wyld, a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Management, has written a report for IBM’s Center for The Business of Government titled, The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0. The entire report is available via PDF as well as an executive summary, but the hardbound 100-page version can be ordered for [...] I have about a dozen or so word or phrases that Google Alerts looks for and one of them is the phrase “leadership blogging.” Today I got one alerting me to a ZDNet blog post by Phil Windley titled Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in action: Last week, Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, [...] Nora Ephron has a very funny (and accurate) op-ed piece in yesterday’s NY Times titled The Six Stages of E-Mail. Here’s an excerpt from Stage Four: Disenchantment. Help! I’m drowning. I have 112 unanswered e-mail messages. I’m a writer – imagine how many unanswered messages I would have if I had a real job. Imagine how [...] I’ve been doing consulting work the past few weeks for ChartHouse Learning – the FISH! Philosophy company. Last night, while reading one of their books, FISH! Sticks, I came across a poem titled The Journey by David Whyte. I’ve been aware of his work with organizations since he published The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the [...] Stacy Becker is one of consultants I’m working with at the Citizens League on their MAP 150 project. (See her MAP 150 blog.) At a meeting last week, she told me about this book: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. I bought the book last night and read the intro and [...] While writing about Mark Stock’s AASA conference blog earlier today, I followed his link to U of MN professor Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. (I blogged Scott briefly back in January as he was featured in a StarTribune article about school principals blogging.) I didn’t realize at the time that Scott had a blog. I found [...] |
  
  
 
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