I was asked to guest post on Dateline Accra, the small, personal travel blog of Stephen Zook, a young journalist whose spirit I adored when I was editing his copy a few years ago at The Temple News, the college newspaper I once worked and this year he’ll lead. He is studying in Accra, the [...]
More »By Christopher Wink | August 29, 2005 | Travel Reflection Africa was not real to me. It was imaginary; I saw a place where elephants roam and people starve. I saw children with flies around their faces in villages and huts and tribes. I saw in stereotypes and misunderstandings and prejudices and lies. That was all [...]
More »By Christopher Wink | Jul 12, 2005 | First email from Ghana Date: Tue 12 Jul 12:27:32 EDT 2005 From: Christopher Wink | Add To Address Book | This is Spam Subject: Greetings from Abroad To: Family All: Sound the trumpeters for I have come to announce my arrival. I am here at the University of Ghana [...]
More »Study Abroad in Ghana | July 06 to August 16, 2005 In summer 2005, I studied at the University of Ghana in West Africa. It was, unsurprisingly, a startling experience. I was moved enough to film and write and photograph. Here is a small collection of it all. Read the first email I sent to [...]
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Christopher Wink is the co-founder of publishing strategy firm Technically Media and its technology news sites Technically Philly and Technically Baltimore. In that capacity, I am a lead organizer of Philly Tech Week, Baltimore Innovation Week, BarCamp NewsInnovation and other events that bring smart people together. I also founded Story Shuffle and contribute to NEast Philly. On this site, I share my work and write about the future of news, social media and entrepreneurship. The opinions posted here, of course, are no one's but my own, and so should not reflect the organizations with which I work. I live in a distinct neighborhood of Philadelphia and am an alumnus of Temple University.
