Last night I had a fabulous meal of bangers and mash at the Firehouse restaurant on Waterloo Road. Yum.

And this morning I returned to The Reef here in the Waterloo East train station for a session of blogging and strong coffee. (Both those thumbs are linked to larger versions on p. 6 of [...]

Scott and I shared the presentation podium last week at Westminster House with Clive Soley, longtime blogger, and a Labour MP for Ealing Acton & Shepherds Bush in the House of Commons.

Clive and I chatted before his presentation and when I told him about our time-limited community web forums in Northfield, he told me about [...]

Last week, Scott and I met with Detective Superintendent Mike Alderson at the Home Office, akin to our FBI with some Dept of Justice functions, too. Mike works with the Citizen Focused Policing Team of the Police Reform Unit there. We got to know him because he follows the blogs of Northfield Police Chief [...]

This morning I snapped a few more photos of interesting alleys and buildings (bottom of page 5 in the photo album) in Blackheath Village before heading into London where I’ve booked a hotel for the night here in Westminster, across the street from Waterloo East train station.

I spend the afternoon doing the tourist bit. I [...]

I didn’t anticipate the hectic nature of our UK trip.

Scott and I were always running from train to underground to train to bus to taxi to underground to train, just making our connections by the skin of our teeth while we hauled our luggage up and down stairs, rarely seeing a lift (elevator). On many [...]

I just had dinner at the Pizzeria Artigiande here in Blackheath Village tonight… the restaurant on the right. That’s the All Saints Parish Church in the background, home parish of Terry Waite.

I had a leisurely dinner of pizza and wine followed by tiramisu and coffee, reading news of the UK and the world from [...]

Two of the people who’ve been doing a great deal of behind-the-scenes work for the ReadMyDay project, NorthLincsNet’s Sally Weaver (tech manager) and Joe Archer (tech guru) came to the seminar in London yesterday to give us some rah rah support.

Rep. Ray Cox just posted about the various articles in the media lately that have included coverage of his blog.

ReadMyDay blogger and Kingston Councillor Mary Reid with Ian Johnson, Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) at yesterday’s seminar in Westminster.

I later met with Ian to start exploring ways that blogging might be incorporated into some of the DCA government-citizen engagement projects, as his colleague at DCA, Natalie Cook (Senior Policy Officer, e-Democracy) had contacted [...]

Scott and I made our presentations on civic leadership blogging to a gathering of ReadMyDay bloggers and other interested people yesterday at government building in Westminster, a borough in the heart of London.

Someone was there filming the whole thing and conducting interviews, though I never found out exactly who. I like this photo that Scott [...]

Councils should get blogging says e-Democracy e-Government Project

A group of learner bloggers has come together to be coached by experienced practitioners from Minnesota in the USA. With the help of coach Griff Wigley of ReadMyDay, officers and councillors from local authorities, are given guidance in the art of blogging. Participating councils include Kingston, NorthLincs Net [...]

On Thursday afternoon, we met with ReadMyDay blogger Councillor Louise Alexander at Tower Hamlets.

See Scott’s post on the meeting.

On Thursday morning, Scott and I invaded and conquered Surrey and then met with ReadMyDay blogger Councillor Andrew Crisp and colleagues at Surrey County Council.

(See the high-res versions of these and other Thursday photos on page 4 of the UK trip photo album.)

More details to come on the meeting and the people in [...]

The Clarendon Hotel has wi-fi so we’re staying here another night, thankfully leaving our luggage behind today as we head out to meet with blogger Andrew Crisp and colleagues at Surrey County Council and blogger Louise Alexander at Tower Hamlets.

I just noticed that Hansard Society has posted an item about our ReadMyDay project titled: Blogging in Local Government – Civic Leadership Weblogs which includes this: “As part of the training package for this project the Hansard Society produced a short non-technical introduction to blogging, Blogging � the basics covered.”