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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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<p>I rounded up the rear with a presentation on volunteering with <a href="http://backonmyfeet.org">Back on My Feet</a> as part of a four-part event on 'Fitness for Geeks' on Monday.</p>
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		<title>NEastPhilly.com: an introduction, a City Controller debate announcement and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost (.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<title>Community News Startups: Presentation notes from BarCamp for NewsInnovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."]<img src="http://item.slide.com/r/1/0/i/a5v2Vhsu5T9Rx7XomnyO41cKnOuKcHWh/" alt="" width="500" />[/caption]

Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYTUBMWpk&amp;feature=channel_page]

<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost (.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
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Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYTUBMWpk&amp;feature=channel_page]

<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p>I rounded up the rear with a presentation on volunteering with <a href="http://backonmyfeet.org">Back on My Feet</a> as part of a four-part event on 'Fitness for Geeks' on Monday.</p>
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<strong>Notes:</strong><br />
<ol><br />
	<li>Who am I?</li><br />
	<li>Why am I here?</li><br />
	<li>What is Back on My Feet?</li><br />
	<li>Why is this relevant?</li><br />
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<p>I rounded up the rear with a presentation on volunteering with <a href="http://backonmyfeet.org">Back on My Feet</a> as part of a four-part event on 'Fitness for Geeks' on Monday.</p>
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<strong>Notes:</strong><br />
<ol><br />
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	<li>Why am I here?</li><br />
	<li>What is Back on My Feet?</li><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost (.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
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Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYTUBMWpk&amp;feature=channel_page]

<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost ($10.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<description><![CDATA[Buy Xanax Without Prescription, [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="View from the 45th floor of the Comcast Center, before the start of Refresh Philly"][/caption] I rounded up the rear with a presentation on volunteering with Back on My Feet as part of a four-part event on 'Fitness for Geeks' on Monday. It was another installment of [...]]]></description>
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<p>I rounded up the rear with a presentation on volunteering with <a href="http://backonmyfeet.org">Back on My Feet</a> as part of a four-part event on 'Fitness for Geeks' on Monday.</p>
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		<title>NEastPhilly.com: an introduction, a City Controller debate announcement and more</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost (.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<title>Community News Startups: Presentation notes from BarCamp for NewsInnovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
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Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYTUBMWpk&amp;feature=channel_page]

<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."]<img src="http://item.slide.com/r/1/0/i/a5v2Vhsu5T9Rx7XomnyO41cKnOuKcHWh/" alt="" width="500" />[/caption]

Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWYTUBMWpk&amp;feature=channel_page]

<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Banner advertisement design by Brian James Kirk for TechnicallyPhilly.com"][/caption] Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: NEastPhilly.com, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia. In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering [...]]]></description>
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Here's introducing one of the first regionally-focused community news portal in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, home to anything and everything that happens in Northeast Philadelphia.

In a true testament to its rapid growth in its first few months of existence, tonight it is partnering with WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate, <a href="http://neastphilly.com/2009/05/06/city-controller-debate-tomorrow-night/">to host the third and final primary debate for Democratic city controller candidates</a>. If you're in the Philly area, I welcome you to come see a down and dirty triumph of a small media venture.

This could be the future of news coverage.

Last fall, Shannon McDonald, who is now <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/17/what-was-lost-in-the-coverage-of-a-student-journalist-and-a-philadelphia-cop/">on the tail end of a media firestorm</a>, began plans to launch a quarterly print publication called NEast magazine, covering Northeast Philadelphia. I pushed her to think of beginning online -- even if her core demographic was a working class community not heavily entrenched online. I thought it was an opportunity to begin a brand for cheap, making her known to what potential advertisers, readers and sources she could.

<!--more-->She's now the founder and editor of NEastPhilly.com, an online news portal for her native Northeast Philadelphia and hopeful one day home of NEast magazine, aimed to begin quarterly production in spring 2010. I've <a href="http://neastphilly.com/contributors">served as Web editor</a> -- launching and maintaining the minimalist and simple site -- <a href="http://neastphilly.com/author/cgwink">and an occasional contributor</a>.

The results aren't in yet. While NEastPhilly.com has clearly developed a small reputation, partnering with WHYY, collecting a small but loyal readership and adding three other regular columnists, we haven't yet moved to monetization, nor have we made a bold step toward Ms. McDonald's dual goal of a robust Web presence and print reality for her print-leaning community.

Still, I think a formal introduction of the site here is overdue, particularly after presenting with Ms. McDonald on the possible fiscal viability of the NEast brand at <a href="http://bcniphilly.com">BarCamp NewsInnovation</a>, a journalism "un-conference" <a href="http://technicallyphilly.com/events/bcniphilly-roundup">held at Temple University two weeks ago</a>.

I already wrote about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the BarCamp</a> and shared <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">the speaking notes I used with fellow co-founders of Technically Philly</a> for my first presentation of the day.

But Ms. McDonald and I thought NEast could offer its own conversation. So in the spirit of spontaneous presenting, we threw together some notes and spoke to a small group of ten about the lessons we've found in the early stages of our work.

Those notes below.

<strong>Branding online in a Print-Heavy Community: NEastPhilly.com</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<h3>1. Site Preview</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Basic, cheap Wordpress.com template</li>
	<li>Neighborhood-centric</li>
	<li>Breaking/latest news focused interface for those unfamiliar with blog format</li>
</ul>
<h3>2. Northeast Philadelphia</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Authenticity in living/background</li>
	<li>Demographics</li>
	<li>Its place in the city and relationship with big media</li>
</ul>
<h3>3. Why Online, Why Now</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Loss of community news coverage, serve that community we love</li>
	<li>Print-heavy readership, but brand-trusting</li>
	<li>Develop relationships with those online</li>
	<li>Introduce to broader city, which is online</li>
	<li>Find contributors (free now, pay later)</li>
	<li>Cost (.19 plus time)</li>
</ul>
<h3>4. Profitability</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Conversation cannot be on advertising alone
o But, opportunity to develop ad relationships
o Northeast advertisers not trusting of online</li>
	<li>Creating trusted brand to find community support
o Regular presence
o Broader media recognition
o Events and promotion (beef &amp; beers and political forums)</li>
	<li>Longterm alternative revenues
o Niche sites look to fill all niches
o Northeast swag (books, business partnerships, T-shirts even)
o Common Northeast purchases (school uniforms, little league trophies)</li>
</ul>
<h3>5. Take Aways</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Little to no cost to begin brand</li>
	<li>Small town hybrid model brought to cities</li>
	<li>Advertising cannot be king</li>
	<li>Easy to launch, agile</li>
	<li>Impartial, but involved</li>
</ul>
I'll be interested to see what progress we can make, if only for learning for the future. I'll keep you posted when fitting. If you live in the region, have ties to the Northeast or just want to see what we're doing, feel free to check out <a href="http://neastphilly.com">the site</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NeastMagazine">subscribe</a>.

Read about <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/27/how-i-graduated-and-watched-my-peers-have-a-real-impact/">other cool things my peers are doing</a>.

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		<title>Community News Startups: Presentation notes from BarCamp for NewsInnovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and me on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the atrium of Annenberg Hall at Temple University after discussing at the BarCamp for NewsInnovation at TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded."][/caption] Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation -- which [...]]]></description>
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Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/"> the BarCamp NewsInnovation</a> -- which <a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">Blanda organized</a> and Brian and I helped run -- on <a href="http://TechnicallyPhilly.com">TechnicallyPhilly.com</a>, which we co-founded in February.

Read <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/05/01/advertising-cant-be-the-only-option-and-other-musings-from-barcamp-newsinnovation/">my thoughts on the event here</a>. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNI304">looking through #BCNI304</a>, which relates to the room in which we presented.

Below see the notes from and video of the presentation we gave.

<!--more-->I presented twice at BarCamp, first on TP, then later for <a href="http://NEastPhilly.com">NEastPhilly.com</a>, which I'll share on later this week. Harrisburg-based <a href="http://RoxburyNews.com">Roxbury News</a> taped portions of a series of the presentations, including ours: part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=BarCampTP-1.m4v">one</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcamptp-2.m4v">two</a>, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=Barcamptp-3.m4v">three</a> and, Hell, part <a href="http://roxburynews.com/player.asp?videoname=barcampTP-4.m4v">four</a>. Or peep a bit grainier, rougher and shorter clip of me speaking on TP's use of social media to develop our brand.

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<strong>Community News Startups: Technically Philly</strong>
National BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia
April 25, 2009
<ol>
	<li><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Technically Philly: a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia</li>
	<li>February 2009, Wordpress based template</li>
	<li>three young, media and tech-interested freelancers reporters who also are a Web designer, graphic designer and business managing</li>
	<li>Two niches: industry (tech) and geography (Philadelphia)</li>
	<li>Today we'll discuss: How we started, how we're building, and how we plan to pay for it all</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW TO START</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Freelancing with time
<ul>
	<li>Expect to see more freelancers as news orgs shed staff</li>
	<li>Subsidizing through freelance</li>
	<li>Normal workday and then TP</li>
	<li>pick up beat freelancing</li>
	<li>Get off ass off and do it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Use free technology
<ul>
	<li>Use social media, but really use it: interact on Twitter, brand on Facebook.</li>
	<li>Don't just show up for the game, but actually play it.</li>
	<li>Develop brand - the best thing newspapers have are their brand, if you don't, develop it online by being consistently right, interesting and involved.</li>
	<li>New media is interaction (not fancy buzz words)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Know your place
<ul>
	<li>We aren't providing breaking corporate news, but we're adding value</li>
	<li>Right now there are largely Content Creators (news orgs) and content aggregators (blogs, Google, Digg, etc.)</li>
	<li>We're trying to marry the two: creating content, but synthesizing it in a way particular to our audience.</li>
	<li>Aggregation in our voice to our readers</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Be honest in who you are
<ul>
	<li>Disclosures, honest and genuine.</li>
	<li>If you really want to be part of a community, it will support you.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>HOW WE'RE BUILDING A BRAND, AUDIENCE AND COVERAGE</strong>
<ul>
	<li>If you're small, cover small.
<ul>
	<li>How quickly you can affect that small community</li>
	<li>Gives you agility, lessons from the dotcom burst, smaller is often better, and now that is coming to news</li>
	<li>Dinosaur larger media, not seen as authentic in covering a community</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Social media attack
<ul>
	<li>15 percent hits from Twitter, nearly a third from social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, many more from other blogs</li>
	<li>Interacting with audience, that is the good of social media</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Introducing an audience
<ul>
	<li>We still say we're just introducing everyone and haven't even begun to really report</li>
	<li>We're helping to create, cobbling together Philadelphia's broad innovation and tech communities</li>
	<li>Often seen as far smaller than you might expect of one of the largest cities in the country, but we're uncovering new fields</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Niche, niche, niche
<ul>
	<li>neighborhood-centric to be seen as authentic</li>
	<li>Why shouldn't we? Our audience is male, affluent, educated readers not being covered as enthusastically or consistently by mainstream media.</li>
	<li>Find an audience and cover the Hell out of it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Involved community
<ul>
	<li>Don't be afriad to be part of your community; be impartial, but the heart of a journalist is someone a part of a community, you know it better, you affect it better</li>
	<li>If one part of newspapers is still respected and done well, it's the sports beat. They are often people who admit they love the home team.</li>
	<li>We are covering the Philadelphia tech community and we love the home team.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Branding
<ul>
	<li>Want to be seen as the only resource for Philadelphia tech news</li>
	<li>Want to be respected, as journalists and as a source</li>
	<li>That's local, but Comcast, RedLasso and others are national in scope, so that can build brand in wider communities (even the smallest of communities have reasons to be appreciated elsewhere, or at least they should be)</li>
	<li>Being consistent</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>MONETIZATION</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Free model - a big conversation we don't want to get into, but points to make
<ul>
	<li>You're giving away the connection to the community, who will then support you in return</li>
	<li>A new model in the future could be the community network: all the news and all the purchases from that community</li>
	<li>Become a store of everything related to your market, become a hub and sell around the hub</li>
	<li>Phillies blog: selling tickets, merchandise, creating merchandise, write an e-book</li>
	<li>Support a community and it will support your trusted, respected brand</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Rethink traditional monetizations
<ul>
	<li>How to wrangle "Classifieds" back - general interest newspapers lost, but specified niche organizations don't have to</li>
	<li>Advertisements can no longer exclusively sustain a model, but far more specific, interactive campaigns will come closer</li>
	<li>Collecting data on users to better know them (also helps to be involved in community)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Find new models particular to your product
<ul>
	<li>Whenever we try a new product, we ask ourselves what beyond advertising can we sell because it can't be it</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Local works best when it's authentically local
<ul>
	<li>TechFlash, a product purhcased by Puget Sound Business Journal but remains on separate site with separate sales</li>
	<li>Don't brand them as single entity or risk losing the appeal</li>
	<li>Philadelphia flea market versus Fairmount flea market,</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Being cognizant of news as business
<ul>
	<li>We write, report, edit, design, plan, sell, buy, create and disseminate: reporters need to know this now</li>
	<li>The reporters know what would sell to the people they cover, but those reporters aren't making business decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li><strong>TAKE AWAYS</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Be a member of the community, but be impartial</li>
	<li>Brand is everything, hub to sell around hub</li>
	<li>Don't be afraid to go small, independently branded and sold
<ul>
	<li>The collection of niches: Washington Post as national, the NY Times as international, the Inquirer as regional</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Buzz words are more than buzz
<ul>
	<li>social media is friendly; new media is interaction; old media is a lecture</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Smaller isn't worse
<ul>
	<li>Scale of what we cover might not change, the scale of how we cover maybe so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
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		<title>Advertising can&#039;t be the only option and other musings from BarCamp NewsInnovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Wink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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You missed the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation conference this past Saturday, held at Temple University in North Philadelphia -- even <a href="http://www.uwishunu.com/2009/04/21/barcamp-for-newsinnovation-temple-university/">though I encouraged you to come</a>.

I sure didn't. As <a href="http://christopherwink.com/2009/04/20/care-about-the-future-of-news-then-go-to-the-national-barcamp-newsinnovation-conference/">I posted about the week prior</a>, I <a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/im-at-barcamp-why-arent-you/">was in Annenberg Hall on April 25</a>.

It seemed to be a personification of online communities and conversations I've been following only online -- like <a href="http://www.freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/why-personal-and-business-branding-work-best-together/">the value of personal branding</a>, which was the focus of the first hour-long session  I attended, how <a href="http://journalism.fas.nyu.edu/pubzone/debate/forum.1.essay.medsger.html">valuable journalism school really is</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/kev097/status/1613874478">why it might not be</a>) and why news organizations and <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/04/24/journalists-where-do-you-add-value/">journalists need to add value</a>.

I made it to four sessions, spoke at two and helped divvy out the sponsored food during the long day which officially went from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., though I was out of the house before eight a.m. and not home before 11 p.m. (after <a href="http://bcniphilly.com/?p=82">a bumping after part</a>).

These conferences are structured around creating dialogues and allowing anyone to speak on something important to him, so nobodies like me led sessions next door to ones held by executives, editors and reporters from <a href="http://bcniphilly.com/?p=41">places like the Washington Post</a>, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GateHouse Media, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly.com, McClatchy News and, likely more than I don't know about. I mean, gees, the <a href="http://blog.publish2.com/2009/04/23/joining-publish2-ryan-sholin-greg-linch-and-howard-weaver/">whole growing crew at Publish2</a>, which develops tools for what it calls collaborative journalism, showed up.

See the complete schedule <a href="http://bcniphilly.com/?p=129">here</a>.

I learned some things, and I'd like to share them.

<!--more-->

I was really proud of Sean Blanda, a good friend of mine who organized a major national event. There aren't a lot of 22-year-olds who could do that, but the state of news industry requires more like him. He also did Philadelphia a great service -- getting help from the GPTMC and having all BarCamp volunteers, myself included, wear Phillies hats to show some pride to those visiting outsiders.

That said, here are some broad take aways I had:
<ul>
	<li><strong>Advertising cannot be king</strong> -- This was a major point in both of my presentations (<a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/community-news-startups-presentation-notes-from-barcamp-for-newsinnovation/">for Technically Philly</a> and <a href="http://christopherwink.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/neastphillycom-an-introduction-a-city-controller-debate-announcement-and-more/">for NEast Philly</a>) and something I've come to strongly believe, but BarCamp was the first time I shared the tenet with such a powerful and knowledgeable crew. The conversations surrounding the future of news organizations seem stuck on recapturing lost advertising revenue. We're talking about the same amount of advertising dollars in the world, but the Web has brought on a glut of new, more targeted sources to take those advertising dollars. We need to talk about alternative revenue opportunities. This is something I'll post more about in the future.</li>
	<li><strong>Everyone has valid Web ideas</strong> --  We talk a lot about how the Web is democratic, but it was interesting to see the dynamic at BarCamp. Reporters and editors with titles, citizens with blogs, students and communication directors all were engaged in the dialogue on what is good, what is right, what is important for news. The BarCamp format was perfect for this stage of news, where suddenly the most senior news executives have as good a sense of the future as your  neighborhood Twit-head... well at least as near as any industry could be at this point.</li>
	<li><strong>Major news organizations are still important</strong> -- There was a very real divide between corporate and anti-corporate news heads. Despite some very notable exceptions, the couple hundred attendees were mostly revolutionary anti-establishment types. I believe the future will be full of tiny, community-specific for-profit news sites, but I also think there will be a couple dozen or less larger international, national or broad regional news companies. I think at least some will need to be nonprofits, but the point to be made is that we can't cast away all the old brands. That's something  I picked up from a presentation from Steven King, an editor for Web innovation at the Washington Post <a href="http://cujosbyte.com/?p=218">who had a memorable trip visiting BarCamp outside of the Annenberg building</a>.</li>
</ul>
Below see what <a href="http://wemediaguru.com/2009/04/27/a-quick-recap-of-barcamp-newsinnovation-philadelphia/">organizer Blanda speak to Jason Kristufek</a> -- who deserves credit for really spearheading the news-based BarCamp platform -- about the success of the natonal news BarCamp.

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Read some thoughts from other people who are smarter than I am:
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">BCNIPhilly rocked</a> by Sean Blanda<a href="http://seanblanda.com/blog/bcniphilly/bcniphilly-rocked/">
</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.danielbachhuber.com/2009/04/26/swineflu-and-the-news-ecology/">SwineFlu and the Changing News Ecology</a> by Daniel Bachuber</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&amp;aid=162545">News Innovation viewed from Twitter</a> by Amy Gahran</li>
	<li><a href="http://beatblogging.org/2009/04/25/bcni-philly-why-beatblog-and-why-news-should-be-social/">Why beatblog and why news should be social</a> by Pat Thornton</li>
	<li><a href="http://paradox1x.org/archives/2009/04/yesterdays-barc.shtml">Yesterday’s BCNI</a> by Karl Martino</li>
	<li><a href="http://blogs.courierpostonline.com/mojodojo/2009/04/27/bcniphilly-ranks-no-3-brings-me-tweeps/">BCNI Philly ranks #3; brings me “tweeps”</a> by Whitney Rhodes</li>
	<li><a href="http://linglestownpa.blogspot.com/2009/04/around-lower-paxton-with-b.html">Linglestown Gazette: Around lower Paxton with b2</a> by Bill Bostic</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.emilykostic.com/?p=564">Summer Plans, UWIRE 100 and BarCamp Philly</a> by Emily Kostic</li>
	<li><a href="http://editor.blogspot.com/2009/04/barcamp-suggests-our-situation-isnt.html">BarCamp suggests our situation isnt beyond repair</a> by Howard Weaver</li>
	<li><a href="http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/nycondeadline/2009/04/26/the-future-of-news-at-bcni-philly/">The Future of News at BCNI Philly</a> by Jean Marie Evelly</li>
</ul>
An audio component was included in that above piece for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism blog. Someone managed to edit my rambling answers into a brief clip:

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Check out <a href="http://bcniphilly.com/?p=111">all the other coverage people made for BarCamp</a>, or follow the enormous coverage on Twitter <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23BCNIPhilly">by combing through #BCNIPhilly</a> -- <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&amp;aid=162545">because even Poynter did</a>.]]></content:encoded>
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