Last month marked three months since I started at nonprofit Back on My Feet and launched a concerted effort to share more member stories and help develop a better, broader online relationship with our volunteers, members and supporters. The first step in that process was to reawaken our social media accounts — the best platforms [...]

The funny thing is that with all their growth, Twitter and Facebook haven’t made a damn dime yet — despite all the hemming and hawing about their influence, most recently in the Iranian post-election dramatics. With their incredible traffic, there was a time when advertising would seem like a natural choice. Even though they are [...]

Update: We lost. Grant money in journalism is flowing freely in a tightened economy and a historic juncture in print media. Seems like an opportunity. So, my two partners and I, who founded Technically Philly, applied for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, a $10,000 grant to support new ideas in news. See our [...]

I’ve written about social media here more than I’d probably like to admit. These social networking sites are transforming the way we receive our news and information. There’s no secret there. But they keep popping up, so much so that I’ve stopped joining them, because I never know when enough’s enough. Newspapers are still figuring [...]

I was interested to cover the convergence of social networks and fine arts institutions in a story running in today’s Inquirer. While it focuses on Philadelphia examples, there are broader implications, I think. On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed [...]

I got a comment from “Mike” on a post early last month. Interesting post. Curious on why you say “MySpace is lame.” I read recently that MySpace is among the most-visited Web sites with over 1b visits per month… Of course he is right. MySpace remains one of the most popular Web sites in the [...]

We already got the message. Twenty-somethings of today, I suspect, are already careful about their presences online. We were coming to professional age when we were first joining social networks. But the conversations seems to be ongoing. The Economist magazine has released its annual forecast for the coming year, and, among their predictions, the U.K. [...]

I was fairly late in joining Youtube – one year ago today, the day after I launched this Web site. My roommate first told me about the video sharing and hosting site in November 2005, a year after it launched and a year before Google purchased it. However, I didn’t even think to join it [...]

You’re a member of a dozen or more social networking sites. Same goes for someone you’ve never met but know online, professionally or otherwise. When does that online relationship get weird? I’ve never met Greg Linch. He’s the editor at large for online and multimedia at The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper pf the University [...]

Even if I am just a couple months into my Facebook life, I believe it is fair to say there is lots of complaint against its new version – beyond just common resistance to change. I’ve jumped into things with Facebook – and MySpace for that matter – so I think I’ve got a sense [...]