Wigley and Associates » Northern Community Internet http://wigleyandassociates.com Social media for leaders; online citizen engagement Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:00:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Leadership blogging tour wraps up in Grand Rapids, MN http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1225/ http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1225/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:21:24 +0000 Griff Wigley http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1225/ I finished my leadership blogging tour for Northern Community Internet on Friday with a presentation to a full-house of 30-40 people at the Grand Rapids Area Library, a very cool-looking library with a giant red chair outside. (Click any of the photo thumbnails to enlarge and the scroll through the images.)

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I finished my leadership blogging tour for Northern Community Internet on Friday with a presentation to a full-house of 30-40 people at the Grand Rapids Area Library, a very cool-looking library with a giant red chair outside. (Click any of the photo thumbnails to enlarge and the scroll through the images.)

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Afterwards, I had lunch next door with the staff at KAXE, Northern Community Radio, and lucked out to be there for volunteer chef Charlie Lano’s catered home-made lunch. (That’s Charlie standing to the right of Maggie Montgomery, KAXE General Manager.)

Ross WilliamsA tip-of-the-blogger hat to Ross Williams, one of the planners/project managers for Northern Community Internet, who handled all the arrangements for my visit. (Photo is from the MN Voices UnConference,  courtesy of Marc Osten, original here.)

]]> http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1225/feed/ 0 Heading up north: presentations on leadership blogging http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1210/ http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1210/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:08:38 +0000 Griff Wigley http://wigleyandassociates.com/archives/1210/ I’ll be in the northern Minnesota cities of Bemidji, Brainerd, and Grand Rapids later this week, doing presentations on leadership blogging for the Northern Community Internet, “a network of northern Minnesota communities using the internet to connect to our neighbors and with one another.” It’s a project of KAXE Northern Community Radio and . . . → Read More: Heading up north: presentations on leadership blogging]]> NCI-sshot I’ll be in the northern Minnesota cities of Bemidji, Brainerd, and Grand Rapids later this week, doing presentations on leadership blogging for the Northern Community Internet, “a network of northern Minnesota communities using the internet to connect to our neighbors and with one another.” It’s a project of KAXE Northern Community Radio and funded by the Blandin Foundation. My invitation came from Ross Williams who I first met two years ago during an all-day visit to Blandin when the project was just being conceived.

civicsurf-sshot My presentation is based on my 2005 U.K. Civic Leadership Blogging Guide (25-page PDF). Last fall, I collaborated with Gallomanor, colleagues in the U.K.. to produce an updated version of that, a 32-page booklet (PDF) called CivicSurf.  It’s primarily oriented towards elected councilors but applicable for anyone in a leadership position.

If you’re looking for something that’ll give you a taste of what I’ll be covering in the presentation, the CivicSurf booklet would be your best bet.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a generic leadership blogging presentation, so I’m in the middle of updating it to include new examples from a variety of bloggers, many based here in Minnesota and a few from afar.

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