Griff Wigley

Community identity and the Atwater Sunfish Gazette

Last Thursday I drove to Atwater, Minnesota and spent the afternoon doing video interviews at the offices of the Atwater Sunfish Gazette, the town’s newspaper, now one-year old. I’d been contracted to do the interviews by Bill Densmore, Director of the Media Giraffe Project within the journalism program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (I’d met Bill [...]

Bloggers puttin’ on the ritz

A local non-profit organization, Laura Baker Services Association, held their 10th annual auction here in Northfield on Saturday night. (See my Locally Grown blog entry for all the details.)

   Left: One of my blogging clients, Ed Kuhlman, of Kuhlman Auction Service, did the live aution. See this video clip of Ed auctioning off some rare wine (1 [...]

Testing Windows Live Writer as a blogging client

I am exploring Windows Live Writer, wondering if the word processor can be a good blogging client, even better than my current favorite, Zoundry Blog Writer.

First test is to see how it handles images and whether or not it allows text to be wrapped easily. Looks good.

Can it link URLs to images? Apparently, yes. [...]

Matthew Ellis joins the U.K. blogosphere

I met U.K. Councillor Matthew Ellis back in July in Budapest at the the International e-Participation and Local Democracy Symposium, as he’s the chair of ICELE.

He attended my leadership blogging session and decided shortly afterwards to hire me to help him put up a website with a weblog. He’s a Conservative member of both [...]

Upper Midwest Gourmet joins the business blogosphere

Upper Midwest Gourmet, a wholesale distributor of specialty food service ingredients, organic coffee, gelato, equipment and supplies, now has a weblog on its website. I’ve helped them with a complete site conversion using WordPress with their exisiting design.

I’ve been working most closely with Western Sales Manager, Michael Applen, who has taken on full responsibility for [...]

Republican power lunch at the Ole Store

Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer had lunch at The Ole Store today with two of my clients, State Senator Tom Neuville and State Representative Ray Cox. (I stopped by briefly as an on-duty photographer, but being a blogger too, I had to weasel my way into at least one photo. Click to enlarge.) All [...]