Three recently shared numbers stand out to me as being incredibly powerful, evocative and important for the future of Philadelphia: 8,456 The tiny, 0.6 increase in Philadelphia’s population from the 2000 to the 2010 U.S. Census, a small grow that halts an enormous trend: 50 years of population loss from a 1950 height of 2.1 [...]

Google Books released an incredibly interesting time-waster research tool that can graph the use of any word in six language since 1500 from some 500 million digitized books, as I reported this morning for Technically Philly. While, as showed there, lots of interesting Philadelphia-related graphs exist, I admit that even more broad conversation-worthy displays exist. [...]

Today is my final day serving as the Media Director of homeless advocacy nonprofit Back on My Feet, after first joining in mid-January 2010. Social media is just one of five major areas of responsibility, as I noted in my resignation notice here, so much of the growth and direction came in the first three [...]

Pull media, like social networks are incredibly powerful, but the power of the push media of email hasn’t much waned. Nonprofits, companies and organizations still rely on its ability to land in the inboxes of busy readers, consumers and supporters. Since announcing that I’m leaving Back on My Feet, I’ve taken a bit deeper a [...]

Philadelphia has developed this reputation: Killadelphia or something like it. In a prominent New York Times profile of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams last week,  the city was described as having been “battered for years by the worst sort of superlatives — the highest murder rate, the lowest conviction rate.” What a damaging and sweeping [...]