By Griff Wigley, on October 27th, 2004
Steve Sheppard, CEO of Foldcraft/Plymould Company in Kenyon, MN, is a new blogger.
By Griff Wigley, on October 15th, 2004
Village on the Cannon is condominium development for seniors in downtown Northfield, Minnesota. It’s a Collegeville Development Group project. I didn’t design the site but have taken it over and hope to have a weblog installed for Kari Sobeck, Director of Sales, real soon!
By Griff Wigley, on October 14th, 2004
Eden Prairie Police Chief Dan Carlson’s weblog was quoted Monday in the Star Tribune’s front page article titled Political sign-stealing: Mischief or conspiracy? by Mark Brunswick.
Eden Prairie police report discovering two groups of teenagers stealing and defacing yard signs, prompting Police Chief Dan Carlson to warn parents on his Weblog to watch the trunks of their cars for caches of yard signs and “indications of an abnormal interest in the campaigns.”
Good reporters follow the blogs of community leaders.
By Griff Wigley, on October 1st, 2004
I’m always on the lookout for state or local
1. elected officials (currently in office)
2. government staffers
who are actively blogging. Public servant bloggers, in other words.
Campaign blogs are popular but there doesn’t seem to be many blogs by those in office or those employed in state or local government.
Here in Minnesota, I have 4 blogger clients who fit this description: 1 state house member, 2 city police chiefs, 1 city manager. I’d like to find others.
I asked a popular blogger and writer in North Carolina, Ed Cone. He wrote:
Jeff Thigpen, a candidate for Register of Deeds here in Guilford County is blogging his campaign; he is a sitting county commissioner. Sally Greene, a town councilwoman from Chapel Hill, has a weblog.
I Googled the phrase “public servant blogger” and found one more: Ron Perry, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
