I’m heading to Mpls this morning for this panel, hosted by Business Wire. I may do some moblogging from there.

Navigating the Blogosphere: How Blogs Are Influencing the Media and Changing the PR Landscape

How to use blogs to reach consumers, shareholders, media, and other key audiences
How traditional media organizations are adapting to the rise of the [...]

A colleague, Bob Courchaine of Northfield Internetworking, sent me an E-Commerce Times article titled Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats. It’s an important issue to understand. I’ll take a stab at it, but this is a layman’s interpretation of the rules. I’ve not consulted a copyright attorney on this.

“… bloggers, many or most of [...]

In yesterday’s Northfield News, this opinion piece by the paper’s editorial team: Officials extend thoughts to the Web. Some excerpts:

There are other elected officials around the state using the web as a communication tool, as well, but Northfield’s public officials on a large scale seem to have embraced the Web, and so-called blogging, a [...]

This role as a civic leader weblog coach (my Wigley and Associates weblog consulting practice) is picking up steam:

I’ve proposals in the works to be the blog coach for two high profile political campaigns.

I have a second city manager weblog client, Pete Auger, Davison, Michigan; the other is Scott Neal, City Manager of Eden Prairie, [...]

The Campus in Community blogsite has launched. Their mission: Online Dialogues about Civic Engagement in Higher Education.

JoAnn Campbell, Senior Program Director at Minnesota Campus Compact, will be the initial blogger.

I’ll be doing some blog coaching as well as helping the moderators behind-the-scenes.

A St. Paul-based company named Avenet has a web site creation and content management system called CampaignOffice. I got a call last week from a mayoral campaign inquiring about my weblog coaching services for their candidate who’s using the platform. A weblog feature is not built into the system.

I checked around and noticed that [...]

Stephen Sheppard has hired me to be his blog coach for his weblog, temporarily called Sheppard’s Blog. He plans to use it for other interests beyond his work as CEO of Foldcraft where he launched a weblog last fall.

Here are two videoclip thank-yous to four colleagues who visited Northfield last week during the Int’l Symposium on Local Edemocracy.

This one goes out to a couple of ReadMyDay bloggers, Mary Reid and Isobel Harding.

And this one to Dylan Jeffrey and Julian Bowrey, local e-Gov honchos at the ODPM who, along with Steve Clift, made [...]

I was interviewed for a piece that appears in today’s Chicago Tribune: Blogs giving firms a human voice by Ann Meyer.

My clients The Contented Cow and Northfield Police Chief Gary Smith got mentioned.

Here are some paragraphs from that interview.

(And kudos to Meyer for getting both the quotes and content right from her phone interview with [...]