By way of City Council resolution, it is officially Philly Tech Week. Back in January, I first announced here this open calendar of events meant to promote technology and innovation in Philadelphia, as organized by my two colleagues and I at Technically Philly. Thanks to our all of our sponsors, including the official Philly Tech [...]

Data, context and engagement were the themes of the Hardly. Strictly. Young. event at the University of Missouri Reynolds Journalism Institute this week, says Michael Maness, the Knight Foundation Vice President of Journalism and Media Innovation. Also read a Columbia Journalism Review overview from fellow attendee, new friend and total asshole Craig Silverman, who takes [...]

The first concerted effort to seek what types of city government data and information Philadelphians want was kicked off last night with an event I helped organize on behalf of Technically Philly with Young Involved Philadelphia. Partnered with the Code for America fellowship program, I moderated a panel meant to illustrate concrete and simple definitions [...]

Photographer Colin Lenton, whom I came to know during our college newspaper days, and a few of his colleagues have rented out beautiful space in the Frankford neighborhood and have made it into a unique studio space. This weekend, Philadelphia Productions, what they call themselves, held a great grand opening party. They had a camera [...]

PHILADELPHIA — Regional technology news site Technically Philly has announced today that it is organizing the first ever Philly Tech Week to be held across the Philadelphia area April 25-30, 2011. Philly Tech Week will be a week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia. The annual week of events is intended to grow the [...]

Online journalism has seen advances editorially, technologically and, more recently and perhaps more importantly, in sustainability, but the industry has yet to efficiently mature its methods of replication, according to my experience last week at the 2010 Online Journalism Association conference. In spring 2009, major conversations were still focusing on what direction anyone should be [...]

The J-Lab Institute for Interactive Journalism held a pre-conference called ‘Fund My Media’ before the launch of the Online News Association annual conference Thursday. Building on last year’s pre-conference before the ONA national event in San Francisco, the morning of discussions, speakers and panels were decidedly focused on keeping online editorial products alive: from foundation [...]

As I first shared last month, we at Technically Philly last week hosted Switch Philly, a tech demo event that we hope to host with some regularity and served as our first major, paid event. It is the first in a series of events that a big part of making TP a sustainable business. On [...]

Tuesday night was the Business and Entrepreneurship portion of a two-week event series called State of Young Philly hosted by the sprawling and popular Young Involved Philadelphia. (The event series closes this tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 1, with its showcase.) I reported on this week’s entrepreneurship event for Technically Philly, through whom we co-sponsored the event. [...]

We’ve always said a niche news site has to look beyond advertising. We at Technically Philly have toed the water of events before. Well, we’re jumping all the way in now. Switch Details: When: Oct. 6, 6 p.m. Where: Levitt Auditorium, University of the Arts, Broad and Pine streets, Center City Price: $9 Click Here [...]