Last Thursday, the City of Eden Prairie held a retirement party for Police Chief Dan Carlson. (See the album of 30 more party photos.)
I captured the audio of four speeches. Click play to listen. Drag the slider to the segment you want to hear.
Deputy Police Chief Rob Reynolds0:00 to 4:50 (Rob’s speech got [...]
Something happened (the e-dog chewed it up?) to last Friday’s blog entry titled Podcast #8: A tour of three suburban downtowns, as only a few photos were included.
They’re all there now. Apologies for my goof.
I’ve installed a triple dose of comment spam protection. It’s a defensive strategy designed to prevent the automated spammer scripts, not the one-comment-at-a-time spammers. We’ll soon see, as Scott plans a blog entry in the near future in which he'll turn on comments.
In the meantime, feel free to experiment by posting a comment on this [...]
City Manager Scott Neal and I launched the city's podcast today. Topics covered:
The World Cup
The Mayor's trip to China
Recognizing administrative assistants
Click play to listen (8 min, 20 sec).
Subscribe to the podcast.
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I’ve installed the blogging platform WordPress here for Scott’s weblog and imported all his previous entries from the past three years.
Let me know if you discover any glitches.
Note that he has a new RSS feed.
I’ll gradually be changing the theme, colors, and sidebars over the next few days. And hopefully this will resolve the infamous [...]
Griff Wigley here. I was Scott’s traveling partner for the recent trip to the United Kingdom, and I have a couple of comments to share with all Scott’s readers about our trip.
I didn’t anticipate the hectic nature of our UK trip. Scott and I were always running from train to underground to [...]
Scott and I made our presentations on civic leadership blogging to a gathering of ReadMyDay bloggers and other interested people yesterday at government building in Westminster, a borough in the heart of London.
We shared the podium with Clive Soley, Member of Parliament and longtime blogger, shown here being introduced by our colleague Milica Howell [...]
Councils should get blogging says e-Democracy e-Government Project
A group of learner bloggers has come together to be coached by experienced practitioners from Minnesota in the USA.
Local officials blogging for readers
Some elected and appointed officials around the metro area are using Web logs to keep their constituents in the loop on just about everything from redevelopment [...]
We just arrived at our hotel here in Wimbledon after a delightful day in Bristol and Kingston.
It’s about 10:15 pm and although all the coffeehouses are closed and none of the pubs have internet access, I’m camped outside of another Coffee Republic coffeehouse and using the MyCould internet access from a bench nearby. A bit [...]
We catch the train for Bristol in 45 minutes. I”m blogging this from the street outside the Coffee Republic which doesn’t open till 7:30. It’s snowing lightly.
I see we made the Star Tribune today:
Local officials blogging for readers far and wide
I’m uploading a dozen or more photos as I write this… hopefully, my laptop [...]
We’ve not been able to blog or audio-moblog today because Griff’s T-Mobile service isn’t working here. Hopefully we’ll get that fixed tonight. We got a few minutes tonight to get online via wi-fi at a conference here in London hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
We got into London at 6:30 am. We had our first [...]
Here’s Scott, at the airport on the way to chicago, doing hotel reservations, in between calls from reporters.
I figured out how to thumb in some text via the camera phone to go along with the moblogged photo. But I’ve cheated here… editing this post, as I’m logged into Blogger via my laptop.
We’ll be [...]
I’ve created an account for Scott on Flickr that allows him to email photos from a cameraphone right to his blog. This is another form of moblogging. Here’s a test:
Who’s this geezerly dude? I posted this photo via cellphone camera from my home office here in Northfield, then logged in to edit the post. That’s [...]
I’ve set Scott up to be able to use AudioBlogger. It’s a free Blogger service that allows you to call a number from any phone and speak for up to four minutes. About a minute after you finish recording a piece, an MP3 shows up here automatically. Audioblogging done this way is a form of [...]
Today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press has an article titled, Blogging for Business by Julio Ojeda-Zapata.
It includes a quote from Scott’s June 11 weblog entry.
