I received an email a couple weeks ago from an entrepreneur who formerly worked for a startup in Philly. He’s with a new startup in another region but asked for quick  advice on reaching out to bloggers and other journalists for coverage. I shot back three quick thoughts: First, prove you’re a human being and [...]

Google Books released an incredibly interesting time-waster research tool that can graph the use of any word in six language since 1500 from some 500 million digitized books, as I reported this morning for Technically Philly. While, as showed there, lots of interesting Philadelphia-related graphs exist, I admit that even more broad conversation-worthy displays exist. [...]

I’m 24 and have made just two appearances on TV news, so take this piece of advice as much or as little as you’d like. But a friend was being interviewed by her local news affiliate and asked for any advice I might have. I offered her what I thought was most important: have a [...]

I use a lot of WordPress themes. Here are some I might like to give a go in 2010. Number of Views:253

Social media has this stigma. In the past six years, those brand-name behemoths of an industry that didn’t exist at this decade’s beginning have reached every corner of the developed world. When something, when anything reaches that level of prevalence, there’s going to be some backlash. So, yes, a medium devoted to regular updates and [...]

There are oodles of WordPress themes, and I’ve gotten the chance to play with the backend of more than a few. While I wouldn’t want anyone to go and brand on the same theme, I do like the idea of showing folks how top flight products can take hold on little more than a template. [...]

When I first came on to Back on My Feet at the start of 2010, our Facebook presence was off. We had a Facebook account — officially named “Backon MyFeet” to fit naming restrictions and even then against the social network’s terms of use allowing accounts for only individuals. The vanity URL facebook.com/backonmyfeet, of course, [...]

Nearly two years ago, it was apparent to me that, with the explosion of Web communities, it was necessary to be everywhere online. Lame? Yes, maybe, but your byline is your brand and all of that goodness. That’s still true, but can we agree there still room for consolidation in our Web presences? By a [...]

Anyone publishing to the Web needs to accept the importance of a catchy image, graphic or photo. The color can spruce up a site — bringing in word-resistent readers and making something simple seem more design friendly — and affect readership. But many average PC users out there blogging — or even those just looking [...]

Of course they do. Because just like news organizations, the niche pays and the general does not. I’m not writing this from experience, of course, because as a young freelance journalist, it’s nothing I’ve developed. But, in more than a half year, I have at least learned that any freelance writer, journalist, Web developer, grant [...]