My trip to the United Kingdom is over. I’m back at work. But before I get fully back in the saddle, I’ll share my final thoughts about the UK.
The scenery in London was fantastic.
Although the Brits didn’t seem to think much of their national rail system, I thought that it was very easy [...]
I may have made it home OK, but I did not complete my reports from the field. I’ve got two more to finish up. This report is about our visit to Surrey County.
This is the Surrey County Hall. It is a historic building. The palm-like trees out front made me think, [...]
I made it back. I needed to be back home by Saturday, February 26 to attend tonight’s Eden Prairie Foundation Ball. My wife and I have been looking forward to this event for months. It should be fun.
I’ve got a couple of posts to make yet about the trip. I’ll get [...]
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 [...]
Louise Alexander is a City Councillor for the Borough of Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamelts is a borough of approximately 200,000 people in 10 square mile area. It is very densely populated, and the home of some of the newest tall building commercial development in London. This is the part of London that [...]
We’ve stayed the past two nights in Black Heath village section of Lewisham. Here’s a quick look of the village on my walk around their downtown this morning. I’ll add an audio annotation of my walk at the end of this post.
Our first appointment on Wednesday was with an official from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Griff is writing about that visit at his blog. You’ll have to see that for more details on that meeting.
But after that meeting, we got an insider’s look at the new offices of the British Home Office. [...]
We had a great meeting today with our new friends from the London Borough of Lewisham. This is Griff with Councillor Andrew Brown. Cllr Brown has been a very active participant in the ReadMyDay project here in the UK. I encourage your to check out his blog. It’s a particularly good [...]
We met up with Mary Reid yesterday. She is a City Councilor on the Kingston City Council. Officially, they are called the Royal Borough of Kingston, or RBK for short. I did a quick presentation for their Chief Executive, Director of Human Services and Councilor Reid.
Kingston has been been a Royal Borough [...]
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 [...]
It�s Tuesday in the UK. It�s probably Tuesday in the US too. I�m writing this on the train from Bristol to London�s Paddington train station. When we reach Paddington, we will change trains and complete today�s journey into Kingston-upon-Thames. We�re rescheduled to meet with Kingston City Councillor Mary Reid and Mr. [...]
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 [...]
The Scunthorpe United Football Club has started a program called Study United. Study United is an educational program for local kids that uses soccer as the primary learning tool. So how does soccer work as a learning tool? Well, for starters, the program is carried out at The Iron�s local stadium, called Glanford [...]
I’ve been learning more about local government in the UK everyday. I had an indepth conversation the other night over dinner with our hosts from NorthLincsNet. Click the link and you’ll hear what I found out about the local government authority for North Lincolnshire:
