I’m setting up a new website with a weblog for J. Grundy’s Rueb ‘n’ Stein, a bar and restaurant in downtown Northfield.

Owner Joe Grundhoefer (pictured above on the left with his dad, Northfield attorney Marv Grundhoefer) should be blogging soon.

The Star Tribune’s Nick Coleman wrote a column yesterday titled: Blogged down in Web fantasy. Eden Prairie City Manager Scott Neal alerted me to it and said he emailed a response to Coleman. I decided to do likewise:

Nick, I don’t blame you for being ticked at some of the bloggers but blogging is a web [...]

I’ve been asked to make my outline available on this topic.

View the Online Civility PDF or the web-based PowerPoint presentation.

I’ve started using a service called Blogrolling to maintain a list of weblogs in a sidebar to the right or left of a weblog. See my client blogroll on the upper right of my home page — randomly ordered.

Anyone can create a Blogrolling account and then use their tools to create a list of [...]

In today’s Star Tribune: Police employ technology to get closer to community

Community policing has been about building partnerships between police departments and the citizens they protect — combining the best parts of the era when everyone knew the cop on his beat with the professionalism of modern law enforcement.

Now, police have taken on added responsibilities [...]

I’m starting to see important differences in the blogging by some of my clients who are in significant leadership positions… and doing more thinking on the blogging that should be done by people in their positions.

So last week I registered the domain name leadershipblogging.com and aliased it to smallbusinessblogging.com, the site where I’m working on [...]

I’ve started advising my clients who send out an enewsetter/weblog digest to use a plain text headline format instead of a graphic/HTML format.

More and more people and organizations are blocking HTML-formatted email in an attempt to minimize offensive spam.

I’m setting up a new website with a weblog for the Northfield Golf Club.

Director of Golf Mike Luckraft should be blogging soon.

My 9-month old Gateway M675X notebook quit on me one Monday morning about a month ago, 2 hours after I did my weekly backups.

I was as grateful for the timing as I was exasperated at the occurrence. It took me a day or so to rebuild all my applications and restore my backups onto [...]

I’ve set up a new website with a weblog for Circle Lake Estates, a new housing development in rural Rice County. I’m working with Bob Kuyper at The Kuyper Group – Re/Max Results.

I found a new web site today titled CEO Bloggers’ Club: International club of CEO Bloggers. I’ll check out some of them and report back.

I used my new camera phone to take this photo of Ray Cox this morning in his office. (Ray is a weblog/website client of mine – he owns Northfield Construction and is a state legislator with a weblog, Ray Cox.net.) I then sent the photo from the phone to this weblog and it showed [...]

Eden Praire, MN Police Chief Dan Carlson asked me via email:

“Griff, what is your opinion about the length of a weblog post? I assume that they are as unique as the individuals who write them, but what is your professional opinion? I try to keep my posts to three paragraphs and I try not to [...]