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

Social media has this stigma. In the past six years, those brand-name behemoths of an industry that didn’t exist at this decade’s beginning have reached every corner of the developed world. When something, when anything reaches that level of prevalence, there’s going to be some backlash. So, yes, a medium devoted to regular updates and [...]

Nearly two years ago, it was apparent to me that, with the explosion of Web communities, it was necessary to be everywhere online. Lame? Yes, maybe, but your byline is your brand and all of that goodness. That’s still true, but can we agree there still room for consolidation in our Web presences? By a [...]

Updated: July 2, 2009 @ 11:43 p.m. with another app. Updated again: Sept. 16, 2009 @ 10:12 p.m. The world doesn’t need another Twitter post. But, with the surging number of third-party Twitter applications and posts and stories surrounding the buzz service of the moment, I find it’s easy to get lost. Admittedly, I’ve done [...]

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

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

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

The frequent mention of market dominance is when a brand becomes a verb. Xerox that. Get a Band-Aid. Of course, that has clearly followed online. Google that. Digg that – though not Digg me. Facebook me; the confluence of Twitter and tweet and twittering. You don’t LinkedIn someone, which might relate to how Facebook could [...]

Get your twitter mosaic here. Oh man, how done are you with Twitter news reports? Mostly, news stories on Twitter include a nut graf that looks something like the following passage from a recent piece in the New York Times near-obsessive coverage on the social medium: In its short history, Twitter — a microblogging tool [...]

I have submitted a story or post of mine to Digg three times in a half-year of membership. I readily know that I have friends who’ll swear that number is larger. I recently pledged to work on limiting my own shameless self-promotion and, admittedly, nothing is dirtier than submitting your own work to Digg or [...]