It’s not as detailed a blog as I’d hoped (and may never be) but our Cinque Terre weblog from our fall trip is finally up, along with a gallery of 150 carefully selected photos.

Today, I created a podcast for my NCO executive director weblog and made five “shows” — each a rehash of a previous blog post. I used my $5/month account at Audioblog.com to record them and publish them. They take care of the iTunes publishing, too. See this blog post there for more details.

I have a new part-time gig as Executive Director of Northfield Citizens Online, the non-profit in my hometown of Northfield, Minnestoa, USA, just south of Lake Wobegon. (We maintain a citizen journalism/civic blogosphere website called Northfield.org.)

I’ve created a new weblog for this new role. I’ve been teaching the art of leadership blogging for the past couple of years. Now I have to actually do it. Oy.

As I explain in this post, “…to help myself get better at my own leadership blogging skills, as well as to have another way to teach others as blog coach, I’ve created these weblog categories to help illustrate the art of civic leadership blogging.”

In other words, nearly every blog entry will be assigned one of these “leadership blogging” categories in addition to other traditional categories:

• Chronicle a decision or current unresolved problem
• Illustrate your values, mission, goals, strategies
• Leverage your media diet
• Point to website changes
• Promote your organization
• Provide recognition
• Reveal aspects of your non-work life
• Teach about a service, program, project, dept.
• Teach about the complexities of an issue

I got an email today from a longtime colleague, Ed Vielmetti, informing me that this blogsite comes up #1 in a Google search for “weblog coach” I then checked MSN (it’s #1 there) and Yahoo (it’s #2 there). Cool.