Over at Technically Media, I had a bear of a problem for a few days trying to figure out how we could get a company credit card. We had no credit. We were a new business. Plus, there were three of us, and we wanted all to have equal footing. What was more, I struggled [...]

The three of us who founded Technically Philly dissolved our partnership at the end of last year. But it was good news. Moving away from the general partnership we launched in early  2009, we’ve incorporated as an S-Corporation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for better protection against liability, losses and for better treatment by the [...]

Tradition matters to me. It gives us culture. It is a way to pay remembrance for those who came before. Yes, it’s a little bit fun. In the world of news, there is a lot of tradition that needs to be lost. Unquestioned impartiality, balance without real context, an ignorance and distance of what funds [...]

During presentations, we at Technically Media have talked about our failures. We do a lot of speaking (me too), so we’ve also touched on the power of working in threes. But I think we haven’t touched on what I think is our most innovative reason for sticking together for more than two years: our meeting [...]

It came to mind that I toss around a handful of phrases with enough frequency and a long enough time that I feel they have sufficiently affected how I orient myself to what is around me. Maybe some will have meaning to you. Fifty percent of people are better off than you, and 50 percent [...]

I am not going back to freelancing. Last month, I came on full-time with Technically Media, a company I helped launch and produces Technically Philly. Still, going back on my own, in some form, has returned me to thinking about and combing through some of the advice I collected in 2009, during my year freelancing. [...]

This fall, I started doing something on the Back on My Feet blog that should probably be the first step of every community news site ever: a weekly aggregated roundup of existing news on homelessness. It’s something I advocate to any content creator in which I am involved. A primary rule of anyone with mission [...]

Almost two years ago, we at Technically Philly first launched our media kit. We followed it up with advertising packages, which I think are more important once your product is a recognized brand in a community, but a media kit is important still. After fielding a few questions of late from those interested in what [...]

When you’re launching a business or a brand, a check for domain availability has to be part of the brainstorming. I worked with Shannon McDonald to launch a hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia. Initially in late 2008, she wanted the product to be the Web presence of a print product she wanted to call [...]

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 [...]