Griff Wigley

Change for Blogger’s image-uploading

Blogger has released a new feature for uploading images.

Pro: it provides a great way to automatically resize originals, linked to the original, and have the text wrap around the image.

Con: it has a glitch

If you’re using Internet Explorer as your web browser and try to upload a photo with the new Blogger photo upload tool, [...]

Photo album – Deepening Online Delibertation conference

I’ve posted 80 photos of today’s Deepening Online Delibertation conference in the DOD photo album.

Moblogging from the conference

Me with Carol Hayward, Bristol City Council communications department, U.K. I met Carol back in February when I visited her city for the ReadMyDay civic leader blogging project.

“Deepening Online Deliberation” conference

I’ll be at a conference in Minneapolis today called Deepening Online Deliberation. I met many of the participants last night at a social gathering, held at Andrew Eklund’s Ciceron offices.

I may moblog some photos from there today.

Imagine Kutzky

Imagine Kutzky, a Rochester MN neighborhood revitalization initiative, has a weblog.

Stephanie Kilen is the chief blogger.

International Symposium on Local E-Democracy in Mpls and Northfield

Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, two British government officials who visited Northfield last summer (see the photo album and the blog post of the visit) are spearheading an International Symposium on Local E-Democracy, to be held in Mpls the last week in July.

Left to right: Bruce Morlan, Chair, Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org; Dylan Jeffrey and [...]

Using Blogger’s “post your blog with an email” feature

I’m wondering if some of my clients would be interested in using Blogger’s feature that allows you to post to your blog with an email (that links to a Blogger help page on the topic).

I’ve created this post within my email application, Mozilla Thunderbird, with “compose messages in HTML format” turned on.

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MN SOPHE blogsite

I met with some of the board members of Minnesota Society for Public Health Education (MN SOPHE) today. I’m working with them to launch a group weblog on their website.

Moblogging from the Reynolds School of Journalism

Earlier this morning, I posted this photo via my cell phone camera from a meeting at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Left: Crosbey Mwanza, a Fanning Fellow at the Kettering Foundation and CEO of the Swaziland Institute of Mass Communication (SIMACOM).

Center: Donica Mensing, Assistant Professor of Journalism and director [...]

Snow in Squaw Valley

It’ll melt quickly, but last night’s snow squall left a spectacular coating.

I’m leaving Squaw Valley and the CSG spring conference this morning.

I’m heading to the University of Nevada Reno to meet with Cole Campbell, Dean of the Journalism School.

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CSG dance and schmooze fest

While the snow was falling outside last night, attendees at CSG’s spring conference kept warm by schmoozing and dancing.

See full-size versions of these and several dozen other photos in the CSG Spring Conference photo album.

Blogging legislators

My fellow blogger panelists Rep. Steve Urquhart (above left) and Rep. Aaron Pena at the CSG conference in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe. I see Aaron has already posted to his blog today about the session.

Our presentation was incorporated into CSG’s Technology Working Group meeting which was co-chaired by (left) Rep. Mike Murphy, Indiana [...]

CSG conference in Squaw Valley

I’m in the lodge of the Resort at Squaw Valley, preparing for my blogging presentation to a group of state legislators in about an hour for the Council of State Governments.

I had breakfast with these two gentlemen from Alaska. They told me they were important so I Googled them to see. Left: Gary Stevens [...]

Scott Neal authors blog article for Public Management magazine

Scott Neal, Eden Prairie City Manager, client, and U.K. trip colleague, has a feature article in the June 2005 issue of Public Management, the magazine of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).

It’s titled What About Those Blogs? Is the newest electronic �narrative� useful or problematic? and is currently only available online to subscribers.

Scott [...]