CraigColgan.com
CraigColgan.com is where I will post articles I have produced recently as well as over the years mostly about technology and media. I am a consultant as well, and my company is called PotomacPlanet. My blog is Municipalist, which focuses solely on exploring use of Web 2.0 tools, especially blogging, by government agencies and individuals to engage constituents, communities, etc. My email address is cc (a t) craigcolgan.com
Updates:
2008
• In July 2008, I was quoted in an article about federal agency blogging in Greenwire, a Washington, D.C.-based news service covering news and issues about the environment. The article is subscription only, alas.
• In June 2008, a blog I initially conceived and planned, then participated with a team to develop several years ago, won a national award.
• In May 2008, my piece from 1998 about the troubled life of Hugh McDonald, Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign assistant press secretary, was referenced in the book The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke. [Photos of Hugh can be found in the April 2008 photo compilation A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties by LIFE photographer Bill Eppridge, whom I interviewed for the Hugh McDonald article.]
• In April 2008, one of my pieces was re-published in a book entitled Current Controversies: Blogs, alongside works from some heavy hitters. Get 'em while they're hot. [More info here. Table of contents PDF is here.]
• The same piece is referenced in 2007'sThe Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0 by David C. Wyld. Here is a Q & A I did with Wyld at Municipalist.
• In March 2008, I moderated a panel before an audience of 120 on the use of blogging by school board members at National School Boards Association's annual conference in Orlando. Details here. As I did at NSBA's 2006 annual conference as well.
• In January 2008, I was interviewed here for a podcast concerning my article in the Washington Post that month about how a woman's social media connections supported her through cancer surgery and treatment, and inspired a new way to donate dollars to an instantly-created non-profit.
Previous:
2007: Municipalist, a blog covering the burgeoning world of government blogging and use of all Web 2.0 technologies, debuts. Part of the initial concept is to publish Q & A's with public sector bloggers at all levels, exploring why they blog and what they have learned.
2006: Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Equality, mentions me in the book's acknowledgements section [link here]. I wrote a piece in 2001 for the Charlott Observer about the North Carolina and South Carolina sections of the May 1961 freedom ride, and shared my reporting with the author.
Craig Colgan is based in Washington, D.C. My email address is cc a t craigcolgan.com. All content is Copyright 2007, 2008 Craig Colgan, except where otherwise noted. All content used by permission or fair use.
