Simply put, we build audiences. At the beginning of December, I left another role and promised greater details on what I would doing. Here’s a start. In the past few weeks, I’ve chosen a payroll services company, applied for tax status, requested a business operating license, closed an existing account and otherwise finalized the incorporation [...]

Today, Technically Philly has announced its directory. Directories are normally pretty boring. We think ours won’t be. It’s certainly a small step, but, leveraging WordPress custom taxonomies with some incredible thinking power of Sean Blanda and plenty of sweat equity from myself and Brian James Kirk, we have launched pages for the nearly 1,000 companies [...]

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

Hey, ledes are often pretty formulaic. That much we know. We also know that Technically Philly has aspired to grow more broader coverage of its community. Now, they may not be the same and there may likely be no influence; I just thought this was quaint. Honestly, what it may best show is that we’re [...]

I missed the release of the podcast once, and it took a conference four months later to remind me once more. Back in December, my fellow Technically Philly co-founder Sean Blanda and I spoke to CoPress co-founders Greg Linch and Daniel Bachhuber about our site’s development and its work with News Inkubator, which was passed [...]

They weren’t from around here, were they, shouted my neighbor across the street over the weekend. She was talking about a pack of young journalists — from Florida and Washington state and California — who had invaded my Fishtown rowhome the weekend before. That was perhaps one of the largest take aways I drew from [...]

A year after focusing strictly on business, the three of us at Technically Philly took a softer approach at BarCamp NewsInnovation 2.0, which we again sponsored and organized [Notes here]. The event was held today, April 24, 2010, again at Temple University. Find video, our slides and presentation notes from our talk below. Failure is [...]

Nearly 200 journalists, bloggers, innovators and technologists have signed up to attend the free-to-attend second national BarCamp NewsInnovation un-conference held this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Temple University in North Philadelphia. Last year, lots of attention came from the first national un-conference dedicated to news, information and journalism, and it was when [...]

[Updated: URL is dead, now go here.] With a bit of a twinkle in our eyes, my colleagues Brian James Kirk and Sean Blanda, today, we launch a small testament to our love for that city that lives in Philadelphia’s historic shadow: New York. Today, we launch the 67th ward. It’s not much now and [...]

All of my thoughts Eh, who has the energy. Instead, I’ll leave it to you: Philadelphia Weekly’s Better than Best issue Best Self-Promoters on the New Media Scene To be honest, we’re not always sure exactly what it is the young journalists at Technically Philly are trying to accomplish at the site. Are they attempting [...]