Griff Wigley

Priority magazine interview on business blogs

In the September 04 issue of Priority Magazine, I’m interviewed for their Ask the Experts column on What in the World is a Blog? (And a tip-of-the-blog bat to Inga Beyer with Corridor Business Journal in Iowa City, IA for the alert on the article’s appearance.)

Another newer approach is to create a [...]

Clients Cox and Bly featured in MPR story on web campaigning

Minnesota Public Radio: Campaigning on the Web is becoming standard procedure

August 17, 2004
State Rep. Ray Cox, R-Northfield, and his DFL challenger David Bly, have remarkably similar Web sites. Both prominently feature blogs (short for Web log, an online diary of sorts) in which they discuss their campaigning and political philosophies. And both sites were designed [...]

Missed blog opportunities

MarketingProfs has a new article by BL Ochman titled Ten Companies That Missed Great Blog Opportunities.

It doesn’t matter whether companies are big or small — many are missing opportunities to integrate blogs into the marketing mix. The following are 10 examples of sites, campaigns and companies that are crying out for blogs. With blogs, they [...]

City of Eden Prairie bloggers get blogged

More blog coverage of Eden Prairie’s bloggers, City Manager Scott Neal and Police Chief Dan Carlson. This time it’s Toby Bloomberg’s Diva Markeing weblog, in a post titled Blogs…All About People.

Yesterday I had the privilege of exchanging several eMails with Scott Neal, the City Manager for Eden Prairie, MN. Scott has to be one of [...]

Currency, storytelling, teaching – all in one post

I’d like to occasionally highlight recent blog posts that illustrate some key aspects of my upcoming book. They’ll likely take the form of email feedback that I’ve given to the blog authors. Eden Praire, MN Police Chief Dan Carlson had a post this week titled More Unsung Heroes about some of his administrative employees. In [...]

The blog busters

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The blog busters: “Mighty corporations ignore the whispers on web diaries at their peril. Sean Hargrave reports on how the big brands are logging on to save face”

They were once seen as the preserve of the geek, but nowadays personal opinion and diary pages – weblogs or ‘blogs’ – [...]

Business Week Online: Blogging for Business

Blogging for Business: “With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.”

An interesting piece on how executives of large corporations and other organizations are discovering the advantages of a weblog.

The business world’s posting pioneers say blogging helps them network, boost sales, [...]

Eden Prairie bloggers in the news

In July’s Eden Prairie Sun Current:

Police chief starts weblog
Eden Prairie Police Chief Dan Carlson has joined in one of the World Wide Web’s latest crazes � the weblog. Carlson’s weblog entered cyberspace in early June on the city’s Web site, joining City Manager Scott Neal as Eden Prairie city department heads who “blog” to [...]