Headquarters relocation

IMG_4538.JPGWigley and Associates has a new world headquarters. We’ve sold our house and moved to a townhouse in Northfield at 1133 Heritage Drive, about a mile south from our Linden St. house. (We’re now downsized empty-nesters. We’re renting the townhouse on a month-to-month basis while we try to resolve our condo situation. I blogged about The Crossing in Northfield and Mendota Homes yesterday on Locally Grown.)

I’ve taken the opportunity to drop my landline so mobile and Skype are now the ways to reach me for phone/audio chatting. See my Contact page for details.

Blogging panel at Himle Horner

Himle Horner staff and bloggers

The staff at Himle Horner, a Twin Cities-based public relations/public affairs group, had a little inservice training this morning about blogging. (Click photo to enlarge.)

Colin Cox, one of their account executives (lower left front in photo), invited me, WCCO-TV reporter/blogger Jason DeRusha (right), and Ed Kohler (left, blue shirt), blogger and producer of TechnologyEvangelist.com and author of the Jucy Lucy Restaurants (spelling explanation here) and Shoefiti blogs, to hit them over their collective heads with as much blog-related info as they could handle.  They lasted at least 90 minutes.

One topic I don’t ordinarily cover when first talking about leadership blogging is the role it can play in crisis management. I did today, however, since A) it’s one of the services that Himle Horner offers to its clients; and B) I heard the news reports on the drive to their offices about the shootings at Delaware State University, wondering if the school’s administration would be using a blog as part of the crisis response. (Not. Press release only.)

The Global PR Blog Week (now defunct?)  had a post back in July, 2004 on blogging in a crisis that, along with the attached comments, seems to hit all the reasons for using a blog as a complementary crisis management tool.

Griff Wigley