When you first launch your venture or your organization or group or initiative, you might throw every waking moment you have at it. You log lots of hours, play many roles and simply aim to outlast any competitors. It’s a blind outpouring of time. You start by working longer. In time, you get to know [...]

For anyone who traffics in ideas, relationships and  communication (and reporters are certainly that), “one of the most important soft skills you can have is handling a high-volume of email,” said Merlin Mann in his well-trafficked 2007 “Inbox Zero” Tech Talk. The idea here is that time and attention are irreplaceable, finite and the most [...]

For all the reasons that home ownership among young people is declining (declining marriage numbers, shortening work and location tenures), there is a lot of coverage challenging it being an American virtue. Like any major investment, home ownership isn’t for everyone, but, with the bias of being a proud homeowner myself, I was moved to [...]

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:863

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 [...]