By Griff Wigley, on September 18th, 2006
I’m briefly quoted in today’s Chicago Tribune business section in an article titled, Podcasts spread message: Audio and video broadcasts are becoming easier for small firms to use in marketing by Anne Meyer.
To keep the podcast conversational, it helps to have a second person involved in the recording, said Griff Wigley, principal of the Web log coaching firm Wigley & Associates in Northfield, Minn. “Voice is very important,” he said. Without someone else in the room to have a conversation with, “People slip into sing-songy memo speak,” he said.
I get a kick out of how major print publications still insist on making the word ‘weblog’ into two words ‘web log.’ The tyranny of the style guide, I guess.
By Griff Wigley, on September 12th, 2006
I spent an hour this morning at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with Jørgen Jensen, a journalist with Danmarks Radio (DR), Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation. He works at their station in Bornholm. (See the Wikipedia entries on Bornholm and DR for more.)
Jørgen has been in Minnesota the past ten days, visiting with people and organizations involved in citizen journalism. He heard about Northfield Citizens Online and Northfield.org and wanted to hear from someone who was there as the beginning. I recorded our discussion and have uploaded it to Hipcast. If you’re interested in hearing it, let me know.
By Griff Wigley, on September 11th, 2006
Back in August, I met with Shelley Rose, President & CEO of LogIn. I got to know her many years ago when they were located in the Lowertown area of downtown St. Paul near where I worked at gofast.net.
I’ve done some search-related contract work over the years for them and among other things, they’re the people behind IACPnet, the online network for the International Association of Chiefs of Police – hence the photo of me with Shelley and the Brad Pitt-as-cop cutout above. (Click photo to enlarge.)
Since I’m a blogging coach to several leaders in law enforcement here in Minnesota (Dan Carlson, Rob Reynolds, Gary Smith, Mark Murphy) and have started working with Mike Alderson in the UK, I’m interested in exploring ways that I might work with LogIn and the IACP on leadership blogging. Shelley and I agreed to start scheming on ways for leadership blogging to have a presence at next year’s IACP annual conference.
