Posts Tagged ‘My Video’

Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia: organizing, judging hackathon

This weekend, I spent at least 30 hours in a windowless room of Drexel University for Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia, an international globally-minded hackathon brought to Philly by computer science PhD student and West Philly homeowner Mike Brennan. It was actually a total hoot. Number of Views:124

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My remarks to Philadelphia City Council after resolution names April 25-30, 2011 as Philly Tech Week

With the passage of Resolution 110218, Philadelphia City Council officially named the last six days of April officially as Philly Tech Week, as celebrated with a reading of the resolution in council chambers Thursday morning. There, my colleague Sean Blanda and I, two of the three co-founders of Technically Philly and organizers of Philly Tech [...]

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Announced proposal for William Penn Foundation hyperlocal investment

Forty leaders in Philadelphia media were on hand last week for the unveiling of a structure to develop more public affairs journalism in the region, as proposed by a university research center on behalf of the William Penn Foundation. From 8:30 a.m. to after 2 p.m. on Jan. 7 inside the Delaware Valley Regional Planning [...]

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Take aways from the Future of Local Politics and the Web panel

Whether Web technology and social media can have a major impact on local politics in a place like Philadelphia or if they remain secondary tools, became the major topic and a divided one at a panel that served as the November Refresh Philly meeting. The hour-long panel discussion, which I moderated, was entitled the Future [...]

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Advertising can't be the only option and other musings from BarCamp NewsInnovation

You missed the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation conference this past Saturday, held at Temple University in North Philadelphia — even though I encouraged you to come. I sure didn’t. As I posted about the week prior, I was in Annenberg Hall on April 25. It seemed to be a personification of online communities and conversations [...]

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WDSTL Highlights: professional merit from backpacking Europe

I’ve been backpacking Europe. I returned last week and have been getting out from underneath the transition since then. Though this is a blog on being a young journalist housed on my professional site, I can’t help but share some of the blogging and podcasting I did on WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. Number of Views:322

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WDSTL: a promo and pitch

Have you seen WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, the site on which my European backpacking trip with a friend is being chronicled? Check it out here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3UU3hnliAM] Number of Views:47

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My Temple University commencement speech

Four months ago I graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. I was honored enough to be named student commencement speaker. Read text of the speech here. Only now have I gotten video of my speech online. Have a watch below. Number of Views:216

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KYW: My radio report on State Attorney General contender's criticism

KYW News radio Harrisburg bureau chief Tony Romeo kindly agreed to show me the rough ropes of radio reporting and production on Monday. Below hear my report – with his lede – and the script – with much credit to Tony. [audio:http://christopherwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Morganelli-Wink.mp3] The Democratic candidate for Attorney General today challenged the way his incumbent opponent [...]

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Post-Gazette: Legislators, staffers charged in bonus probe [with my audio]

Details of the long-rumored “Bonusgate” scandal dropped this afternoon. I helped a bit with the reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story written by Dennis Roddy and was charged with cutting some audio for the paper’s Web site. Hear Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett at his 2 P.M. news conference… [audio http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20080710cw_BonusgatenewserA.mp3] HARRISBURG — Attorney General [...]

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