James Kennedy, Chris Wink and Shannon McDonald in the story blanket fort. Photo by Rachel Playe. All of the audio from Story Shuffle 5.0 is now up, featuring the theme of ‘I Love’ and hosted by Roxborough  farmer Rachel Playe. In her infinitely playful manner, Playe had us all tell our stories in a blanket [...]

Over at TechnicallyMedia.com, we’re feeling out the editorial strategy of our editorial strategy company’s website. For now, it’ll have about a post a week, usually focusing on lessons in growing audience and sharing content online, in addition to specific case studies from our work and now, whenever we have the chance to grab someone smart [...]

Earlier this month, my friend Brian James Kirk hosted the fourth Story Shuffle, with a theme of SNOW. Now, the audio from all 11 stories are up. Listen to mine here or find the others here. My story was on attending a local high school basketball game where I grew up as an excited middle [...]

I was in Washington D.C. on Saturday when the Rally for Sanity, put on by the crew at the satirical Daily Show, which is already been billed as the Woodstock for my generation. I didn’t really see or hear much,  as there were some big audio problems and, well, maybe as many as 215,000 people [...]

Earlier this month, my friend Alex Irwin hosted our third Story Shuffle, with a theme of TERROR, in honor of the October month. Listen to mine here or the others here. In addition to our RSS feed, you can follow Story Shuffle on Twitter and Facebook. Number of Views:188

In June, I introduced Story Shuffle, the themed, first-person storytelling event. Two months later, we hosted a second, as per our every other month schedule for the friendly story sharing night. We’re shooting to host the third in September. It’s ready to grow, so now is when we invite big shots like Eric Smith. The [...]

I like projects. I enjoy pointing out skills, traits, knowledge sets or the like that I lack and want to develop and finding practical, fun, realistic ways to develop them as best I can — in small, attainable steps. I love storytelling. I want to be a better, more captivating, more experienced storyteller. I also [...]

Sometimes people think you have something interesting to say. I first met Joel Capperella, who works for Yoh, a 70-year-old technology staffing firm and business unit of Day & Zimmerman, when he showed up out of curiosity at a Philly Startup Leaders Fishbowl on Technically Philly. In his role at Yoh, he contributes to the [...]

After a few months since my first appearance on Carole’s Technology Corner, an hour-long Wednesday radio show on 900 AM WURD, I was asked back tonight, focusing largely on a collaboration of Philadelphians pursuing Google money for a super high-speed broadband network. The fill-in host was James Cartwright, a former IT specialist for the City [...]

After the unfortunate passing of the show’s host earlier this month, I may have been on one of the last episodes of Carole’s Technology Corner, a trend radio program broadcast weekly on 900AM WURD in Philadelphia. On Dec. 30, 2009, I took the 15 minute walk from my home in Fishtown to the Penn Treaty [...]