Griff Wigley

Public leadership, transparency and the world of social media

“They all get the idea that if we’re transparent about what we’re bad at as well as what we’re good at, we’ll get better.”  That’s a quote by Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, speaking about his staff. Levy maintains a leadership blog called Running a hospital [...]

New book: The School Administrator’s Guide to Blogging

I first blogged about Mark Stock two years ago when he was a blogging Superintendent of Schools for the Wawasee Community School Corporation in Indiana. He is now Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Wyoming and maintains a blog called The Stock Mark Report.

Mark recently had a book published titled The [...]

New blogsite for the CVEC

I’ve been working with (L to R) Bill Carlson, Ray Eng, and Ed Lufkin to convert the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium website (CVEC) to a WordPress-based blog site. It went live last week, with the CVEC blog on a separate page.

The U.K.’s DFID blogging project expands

Last October, I blogged about the beginning of my blog coaching with the UK’s DFID Bloggers project, “staff blogs from the UK Department for International Development (DFID).” I’m part of Shane McCracken’s team at Gallomanor which has the contract, part of their CivicSurf project.

DFID was pleased with the results and expanded the project in January [...]