More than 80 events celebrating technology and innovation in the Delaware Valley are taking place over the next few days as part of the second annual Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T and organized by Technically Philly. We first introduced this second year last fall. I am enormously proud to follow the work we managed [...]

Proud to say that popular alt-weekly Philadelphia Weekly put a feature story about my Technically Media colleagues and I on its cover this week. Thanks to freelancer and ReadWriteWeb scribe John Paul Titlow for the interest, PW editor Nina Hoffman for editing and young Karrisa Olsen for taking some photos. A few others are here. [...]

Find the nearest free wireless internet hotspot in Philadelphia by using Connect Philly, a new mapping and text message tool we at Technically Philly released last week. The tool, which can also be reached by ph.ly/connect, The tool, which is meant to be a part of the digital access conversation, was unveiled formally with an [...]

When pitching your venture or product, send a business or technology reporter a three sentence email, explaining in super simple language (a) what your project is, (b) why it matters and (b) who you are. That was one of the better received recommendations I made while presenting for the Lean Startup seminar held at the [...]

First, let’s acknowledge that three years is not a terribly long time. Still, I’m proud that three years ago last month, Brian James Kirk, Sean Blanda and I launched a blog to cover the technology community of Philadelphia. Three years later, we are full-time employees of a growing business with a good reputation. In that [...]

In three years at Technically Philly, I’ve noted a change in the sources that bring me the ideas for the stories I do. It made me think if it’s a trend that other niche media follow. In order to develop a baseline, I did some estimating and created some crude graphs roughly looking at where [...]

A year ago, I felt scattered. I wanted to focus in 2011, and I think, as a full-time employee of my own business with clearer goals and objectives, I have accomplished that. As detailed below, I feel very proud of the success I had in meeting my professional resolutions for the year. So, it’s important [...]

A journalist salary bubble may still be lurking somewhere beyond the newspaper right-sizing of the past decade. We at Technically Philly are in the process of hiring our first reporter — to begin as an independent contractor expected to make something like $30,000 in a 12-month period. That’s a respectable, entry-level salary for a young, [...]

Open publication – Free publishing The second annual Philly Tech Week will take place April 22-28, 2011, as we announced on Technically Philly recently. We unveiled our media kit, made impressively by my colleague Brian James Kirk, which you can see here. The open calendar of events was first held this past April, attracting more [...]

The Philadelphia Daily News today ran a cover story celebrating 10 of the city’s ‘rising power players,’ in celebrating the close of this year’s State of Young Philly, and I am proud to say I’ve been included. Find the story online here, and my section here. Go buy a copy. I was included for being [...]