Griff Wigley

The buzz on Buzz

In yesterday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press business section, reporter Julio Ojeda-Zapata has a story on Buzz Bruggeman, founder and CEO of ActiveWords.

It’s titled, Hitting it big in the blogs: ‘Connection king’ gives tiny firm global reach.

I met Buzz back in Feb of 2004 at Cecily Sommers’ PUSH conference in Minneapolis (where I took the above [...]

Blog coaching for the Northfield Area United Way

Last week I started coaching Elizabeth Schott, Executive Director of the Northfield Area United Way, on the use of their weblog.

RVoices, a community journalism network in Rochester

I’ve started working with Director Susan Waughtal and the people at RNeighbors (also known as the Rochester Neighborhood Resource Center) to create a citizen/community journalism website called RVoices in Rochester, MN.

It’s intended to be similar to what we’ve created here in my hometown of Northfield, called Northfield.org (operated by the 501c3 non-profit, Northfield Citizens Online [...]

Weblog editing tools

I am experimenting with some different tools to make it easier for posting to blogs, rather than using the default rich text editors that are provided by the blogging platform.

This is being posted with Blogjet.

The big problem with most apps is that they don’t handle full wysiwyg with images/photos very well.  So let’s [...]

Back from the Cinque Terre

We got back from Italy late last night.

Lots to show and tell but until we get the Cinque Terre trip blog and photo album up, this photo of Vernazza (where we stayed for one of the two weeks) will have to suffice.