North Lincolnshire Councillor and new blogger John Collinson with my training colleague, NorthlincsNet's Sally McDavid.
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This morning I teamed up with Sally McDavid to teach a blogging class at NorthlincsNet's ReadMyDay world headquarters in Scunthorpe. We worked with a group of ten North Lincolnshire Councillors from 10:30 to 12:30, giving them an overview of leadership blogging followed by a hands-on class. Center photo: councillors Pauline Carlile and Andrea Deas (photo was moblogged from class but I've repurposed it for here); right photo on the laptops, councillors Dick Fordham and Steve Swift with over-the-shoulder supervision from Tony Ellerby.
A gift from selby last night. Now on train to sunny scunny!  In Selby, @ library 4 a quick check of email.
I met this morning at the City of York Council (I took the photo in the middle last night) with ReadMyDay blogger and Councillor Andy D'agorne, Richard Lane, political assistant for the local Green Party (Richard and Andy in photo above), Councillor Quentin MacDonald, and Liberal Democrat political assistant Kate Hudson. More photos at the bottom of page 2 of the photo album. It's now 1:30 pm and I'm about to catch the train to Selby for a meeting with councillors there tonight.
I finally got an internet connection at noon today (Sunday) at the Evil Eye Lounge here in the center of the walled city of York. Frustrating. But it gave some time last night and this morning to wander about taking photos. Here are three (click to enlarge) and I've put up a dozen+ more at the bottom of page 1 and top of page 2 of the UK photo album. Wow. A very old and quaint hotel. No net access, tho. After a nap, I will go inside walls of city and find some.
Staffers Kate (2nd from left) and Priyen (right) were also there. Paul and Kevin are very interested in getting more members of their group blogging as well as podcasting. I've got a meeting next week to follow up with them on this. Later, Paul and I went out for a delightful lunch where we mainly talked about our recent world travels. I then spent an hour or so walking around the center of Kingston's ancient pedestrian-only marketplace. For more photos, see the album. As I was heading to another meeting at Kingston yesterday morning, I happened upon a photo-op-in-the-making with a group of kids and Lib Dem Councillor Yogan Yoganathan, who also happens to be known as The Worshipful Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Click photos to enlarge.  Roy Taylor Roy is the organizer of this summer’s e2e4e: End to End for Earthquake in which a “team of cyclists from the Royal Borough of Kingston are cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats (1,000+ miles in 15 Stages), in aid of Asian earthquake relief.”
Roy and I are strategizing on how blogging, podcasting and videoblogging can be utilised before, during and after the trip.
Yesterday at 10 am, I met with Robin Noble, ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Development Manager for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (is that a great name for a city or what?) and blogging Councillor Mary Reid. Our discussions focused on all the various ways in which blogging and podcasting could be implemented by both councillors and officers after the elections in May. Robin's one of those rare IT guys who not only understands the social implications/benefits of these technologies but who's excited about them as well. I'm looking forward to working with him. |
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