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. My blog is Municipalist, which focuses on exploring use of the Web by government agencies and individuals to engage, speak to, and listen to constituents, communities, etc. My email address is cc (a t) craigcolgan.com

Updates:

2008
• In October 2008, my blog Municipalist, focusing on how individuals and institutions in government engage citizens and constituents through the Web, marked its one-year anniversary. Linking to Municipalist in its first year were the Washington Post, Slate, CQ, Politico, and numerous policy, politics, tech, government, public relations, education, media, and elected-official blogs.

• 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 for a national organization, 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 also published in January about how a woman's social media connections supported her through cancer surgery and treatment, as well as 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 Charlotte 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.