The old saying goes that a reporter is only as good as his sources. To tell or find a story, one needs to have the resources and access to perspective and insight. In my few years as a journalist, I’ve taken considerable effort to build relationships and gather sources. That mostly amounted to piles and [...]

In three years at Technically Philly, I’ve noted a change in the sources that bring me the ideas for the stories I do. It made me think if it’s a trend that other niche media follow. In order to develop a baseline, I did some estimating and created some crude graphs roughly looking at where [...]

Choosing between local impact or broader scale is a vital differentiation in our professional paths. My buddy Daniel Victor was named the new social media editor of nonprofit public affairs news outfit Pro Publica, and so I reluctantly bade him farewell from his brief few months at Philly.com and with the local ONA chapter. Having [...]

News organizations should recognize themselves to be either a fire hose or a neighborhood block party and, if particularly robust, they should have both and discern the different strategies for each. After joining an Aspen Institute Roundtable in D.C. back in June, I met up with NPR Project Argo’s Matt Thompson, who I teamed up [...]

My colleague Brian James Kirk shared these slides from a presentation from the CEO of Fab.com, a membership-based design resource that is less than a year ago. The slides and the takeaways are valuable. 21 things we're learning at Fab.com – October 2011 View more presentations from Jason Goldberg Number of Views:432

Knee deep in a service industry business, I’ve found a real, consistent rhythm of where financial success comes to these types of companies. The act of selling products, of course, is like finding your Atman of the service industry, so, acknowledging that that is at the top of the pyramid and any kind of client [...]

Following President Obama’s much hyped jobs speech, small business owners have been discussing the direct ramifications for if his proposals were enacted by Congress. My Technically Media colleagues and I were specifically interested in these details, as provided by the New York Times: “The centerpiece of the American Jobs Act is an extension and expansion [...]

Last month, I described the process of dissolving the Technically Media general partnership, so I wanted to close the loop by quickly sharing our process for incorporation. Mostly, this was a lesson in paying for a lawyer — doing it (mostly) right is worth paying. But I also wanted to share a few lessons I [...]

I’ve managed more than a few Twitter strategies, for nonprofits, groups, organizations and news sites, and have picked up a few basics that you should be sure to steal. Signing off initials — If you have multiple people using your organization’s account, sign off with initials for transparency, personal connection and ease. Do create regular [...]

I’ve done this enough times to figure out how to do it without screwing everything up. Suppose you start a project on a free WordPress.com, and, as it grows, you want to move it to a self-hosted platform version of WordPress, like I did with this site and NEast Philly and my thesis and others. [...]