Technically Philly now in convenient email newsletter form

We know you’re busy, dear reader, and can’t always find the time to visit us everyday.

So to make life easier, we’re doing away with our old vanilla Feedburner-to-email service to finally offer a fully functional HTML email newsletter that will arrive fresh in your inbox every morning around 10 a.m. To sign up, take 90 seconds and visit our newsletter subscription page and you’ll never have to worry about being out of the loop again.

As a reminder we currently offer four email newsletters:

• Technically Philly newsletter – A daily roundup of ALL Technically Philly content. If you subscribe to this newsletter, you won’t need any of the ones below. [subscribe]
• Comcast newsletter – Once weekly email of our Comcast Roundup, which scans the web for all news related to your friendly neighborhood cable giant and ranks it by importance.  [subscribe]
• Venture Capital newsletter – One to three times a week email of local venture capital news, including Q&A’s, roundups and event coverage. [subscribe]
• Startup newsletter – Once weekly email of our Startup Roundup, which keeps you updated on your favorite Philly startups. [subscribe]

If email ain’t your style, you can get your technology news via Twitter, RSS, mobile or by emailing us and demanding to know what going on.

Want TP in another format? Drop us a line.

We’re raising our ad rates, buy now for current prices.

Just a public service announcement: Technically Philly will be increasing its advertising rates starting on September 1st.

Our current ad rates were established nearly a year ago and our readers and traffic look much different since then. However, we will honor the old rates on any advertising purchase made before September 1st.

Current we have spaces available for our smaller banner slot (next to the logo), in-stream post (between the first and second posts on the home page) and several sidebar ads.

If you’re interested in advertising on Technically Philly before our rates increase, browse our advertising packages and drop us an email.

Thanks to our weekly sponsors

Technically Philly is made possible by advertisers and sponsors that are important to Philadelphia’s technology community. This week we’d like to thank:

Springboard Media – Springboard Media is a certified Apple Specialist and retailer based in Center City and now, in Exton. They’ve got a ton of accessories and a great trade-in program that can score you up to $1,500 when you’re ready to upgrade.

Volpe and Koenig, P.C. — Since 1987, intellectual property boutique law firm Volpe and Koenig has provided guidance on matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, e-commerce, technology joint ventures, non-disclosure agreements, technology acquisitions, licensing and litigation. Whatever your intellectual property law issue… Volpe and Koenig bring law to your ideas.

Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce – The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to promoting growth and economic development, advocating for sound public policy, and serving its members with outstanding programs and benefits. GPCC is the premier advocate of the region’s business community, representing members in 11 counties across three states with one voice.

Caffeine Fish – Caffeine Fish develops the Trainboard iPhone app and offers iPhone development consulting in the Philadelphia area.

Towerstream – Towerstream is the leading 4G service provider in the U.S. and is setting up shop in Philadelphia. Contact Towerstream to find out how, in less than a week, you can have first-class 4G service for your business.

Eight Eleven – The folks at Camden-based Eight Eleven do it all. Branding, communications, marketing, advertising, Websites, Web content management, user-experience (Web & software) and public relations. And they also do it for a lot of tech companies, of all sizes, to boot. Heck, they even customized a media kit just for you. Hit ‘em up.

NextFab Studio — NextFab is a membership-based, high-tech workshop and prototyping center. Our facility provides comfortable, clean, and safe workspaces with hand tools, 3D printers, computer controlled machine tools, software, and electronics workbenches. Expert instructors and a community of collaborators are on hand to help you problem-solve and achieve your vision. NextFab Studio has everything necessary for you to invent, repair, create, and innovate!

Interested in joining these organizations and individuals in supporting Technically Philly? Check out our ad packages and contact our Ad Sales Manager. Can’t find something that fits? We’ll customize a package for you.

Announcement: new events policy, call for reader submissions

Technically Philly will now be accepting paid events to be posted to our calendar and we are opening the doors to you, our readers, to help Technically Philly highlight important events.

Previously, we’ve had a strict policy of only listing free events. However, we have found that this policy left events off of the calendar that we feel could be of value to the community.

Second, we’d like to acknowledge that Philadelphia is home to a large number of awesome events every week. We try to attend as many as we can, but we inevitably fall short. To help fill the gap, we’d like to extend an offer to organizers and attendees to submit reviews of events. To see a sample, read Chris DiFonzo’s post about attending a DreamIt lecture.

You’ll notice we acknowledge that the content is from a reader while shedding light on any conflicts of interest, something that will be mandatory for any post submitted in this way to maintain the editorial transparency that is a core component of Technically Philly’s philosophy.

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Openings on our Jobs Board: Ruby Developer, Web app designer and Web designer

In case you haven’t noticed, over the past few weeks we’ve seen an influx of gigs posted to our Jobs Board. Is it a sign of the economy finally turning around?

Whatever the reason, don’t wait around to find out, as these jobs are likely to go quickly. Here are a few of the recent additions:

• The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission is looking for a full-time Web application designer.
• Veritat Advisors is looking for a Ruby Developer.
• If you hurry, you can still apply to Azaveas opening for a contract Web Designer.

If you’re a company looking to affordably connect with our audience of 16,000 technologists in the region, be sure to post your job openings here. Over 1,000 people checked out our Jobs Board in the past month, and each job is tweeted out to our 2,000 Twitter followers at least twice.

Reminder: our meetup is tonight!

Just a friendly reminder to head on over to Octo Waterfront Grille on Columbus Boulevard tonight to grab a few brews with Technically Philly and Silver Marketing Group.

In fact, the first one is on us.

The weather is set to be a relaxing 80 degrees, and what better way to spend a beautiful day than enjoying a Delaware River breeze with your closest friends? We hope to chat about the local technology industry, hear your thoughts on TP and find out what you all are working on.

So, RSVP and come find us under our large Technically Philly banner that looks like the logo at the top of the page. We hope to see you there!

Technically Philly’s June meetup at Octo!

It’s been too long, Philadelphia. Let’s hang out.

True, we held a meetup last month at the venerable Dark Horse Pub just off South Street, but we just can’t get enough of you folks.

Wednesday, June 30, we’re partnering again with Silver Marketing Group to host a technology professionals meetup at Octo Waterfront Grille along the Delaware River.

We worked with Silver in January and we were thrilled with the turnout. When several established technology community folks stopped by and mentioned that it was a more diverse crowd of people than they were used to—including members of the city’s many technology silos—we were thrilled. And we’re sure this one will cross as broad a spectrum of techies in Philadelphia.

As always, we hope you’ll come and chat about our editorial and what’s happening with Philly tech. It’s of course a great networking opportunity, as well. The gig is free, and oh yes, and there’s a free drink in it for anyone who shows up. Make sure you RSVP. And gosh, with all the movement around waterfront development going on, where better than Octo.

Let’s drink one to this great city and to our vibrant technology scene. See you there!

Announcing our partnership with Philly.com

One of our missions here at Technically Philly is to be a mouthpiece for the technology community of the city – a way to provide wider exposure to some of the great things happening here.

We’ve referred sources to the New York Times and have seen features on companies that we covered shortly appear on CBS News, among other places. And, as often as we can, we try to write tech stories for the Citypaper and for the Metro.

With that in mind, we’re happy to announce a new content partnership with Philly.com. As part of the deal, Philly.com can post our content and we are able to post Philly.com content on Technically Philly.

TP already has content sharing agreements with Philadelphia Magazine and Start Philly.

If you’d like to partner with TP, exchanging content or otherwise, be sure to drop us a line.

Technically Philly May Meetup: 6:30 p.m. 5/19 @ Dark Horse Pub

Continuing our pledge to host a monthly event in which we can meet, drink beer and discuss all the many ways we have failed and can do better the next time, the May Technically Philly meetup is here.

We want to be available.

Next Wednesday, May 19, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Dark Horse Pub in Society Hill, we’ll be there and hope you will too.

It’s a good Irish pub, but $3 Yuengling and Blue Moon drafts will allow you to go easy on the wallet. If you remember, last year’s Open Chefame was held there.

Technically Philly May Meetup
Wednesday, May 19 @ 6:30 p.m.
Dark Horse Pub
421 South 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 928-9307

This week on our Jobs Board

Technically Philly’s Jobs Board is becoming a go-to resource for employers and job-seekers hoping to connect. We recently launched the board with new technology to better serve you, or customer, and hope that it will continue to be a go-to resource for technology-focused positions in the region. Check out the jobs currently posted!

Each week, we’ll highlight the some of the postings that you, your friends or family might have missed.

• The City of Philadelphia is looking for a Senior Application Developer. Two of them, in fact.
• The Chamber of Commerce is looking for a part-time Web designer.

If you’re a company looking to affordably connect with our audience of 16,000 technologists in the region, be sure to post your job openings here. Over 1,000 people checked out our Jobs Board in the past month, and each job is tweeted out to our 1,750 Twitter followers.

Every Monday, Technically Philly will highlight jobs on our Jobs Board.