Technically Philly offering tech insight for Philadelphia magazine’s Philly Post

Please give a warm welcome to our new readers.

Yesterday, by way of a link, we forged an informal partnership with Philadelphia magazine’s new Philly Post daily news blog. From here, we’ll be offering our insight on Philadelphia technology to a broader audience of tech-interested individuals, first hinted at last week. As is true of so much of our effort, this is yet another opportunity to voice the triumphs and concerns of the community to a broader audience in the city and beyond.

I’ll be writing as Philly Mag’s online tech columnist, offering a fresh and often more in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at the goings-on of Technically Philly’s daily news. For those of you who have been following along regularly, the weekly column at Philly Post will be a different taste of what you already likely read between the lines in our news entries. For those just joining us, we hope you’ll enjoy the breadth of technology content that we’re humbly able to offer here.

Be sure to check out the first column, on the City of Philadelphia’s pitch for Google ultra-high speed Internet, at Philly Post.

What we learned at our Fishbowl / A thank you

TP founders Brian James Kirk (left) and Sean Blanda (right) listen to suggestions from attendees.

A huge “thank you” from the bottom of our techie hearts to the roughly 25 people that came out last night to our Fishbowl and one year anniversary after-party.

With the help of Philly Startup Leaders, a mix of entrepreneurs, TP readers and PSL members all gathered together in at the University of Arts to hear our vision for the future of Technically Philly and to offer both praise and criticism.

At the event, TP told a condensed version of our history and outlined our six planned revenue strategies. Three of which (advertising, jobs board and events) we have made some sort of progress on. We then opened it up to the attendees and heard a wide spectrum of ideas that were of infinite value to us, both as journalists and as businessmen.

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Celebrate Technically Philly’s first birthday TONIGHT

As we announced last week, we’re excited to be celebrating tonight our first year covering Philadelphia’s technology community.

We considered blowing it out with Jägerbombs, shots and perhaps a mechanical bull, but that just doesn’t feel right. We have a lot more work to do, and with that in mind we’ve partnered with Philly Startup Leaders to host a business fishbowl at the University of Arts before we kick back with a few light drinks.

We want to discuss with you how to make Technically Philly a sustainable news product at a time when sustainable news products are struggling. Let’s talk about how we can best serve you and create a stronger portal and mouthpiece for the region’s technology community. Register here for that biz fishbowl. If the business part bores you, join us at the Irish Pub at 12th and Walnut for an after-party where we’ll talk shop over $2 domestic drafts and $3 well drinks.

We’re excited to see how things turn out in our second year. We hope you’ll join us to help plan it and celebrate with us 365 days, 600 posts and 1,800 tweets of local technology coverage.

Technically Philly and Start Philly to partner around content and more

The virtuous are the collaborative ones.

After announcing our one-year birthday here at Technically Philly and following for the past few months the insightful and experienced content coming from the entrepreneurs at Start Philly, our two organizations have decided to form a bit of a working relationship.

We met last week inside a Sansom Street restaurant and got familiar over drafts of Yards and comped whiskey. By the end of the night, we had an understanding.

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Events Highlights for Feb 22-28th, 2010

Thanks to some warm weather, our city streets are now actually, you know, walkable.

No longer do we all have to ice skate to SEPTA, and that means that heading out to the week’s tech events should be as easy as ever. Although, the weather gods seem to be brewing the next storm, so you’d best take advantage while you can.

First and foremost, Black Family Technology Awareness Week has a handful of remaining events this week, including the Changing Expectations Career Tour for anyone considering getting into tech.

On Tuesday, head on over to Liberty Plaza to learn everything you ever wanted to know about mobile programming. The next day you should come out to hear Technically Philly present its business plan to the Philly Startup Leaders and other attendees. Even if you aren’t into sustainable journalism (but, let’s be honest: everyone’s into journalism’s business models… right?), come out for $2 beers and $3 well drinks. And lastly, after work on Friday, TrendCamp will help us all discover the trends that will come to define 2010.

All events listed on the event calendar are free to attend. Be sure to check our complete calendar for more.

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Technically Philly to celebrate birthday with Philly Startup Leaders Fishbowl

As you may have heard, dear reader, Technically Philly celebrated its first birthday last week on February 9.

After twelve months of covering startups, investments, city government policy and general technology news, we are still hard at work trying to make Technically Philly a sustainable source of tech news for the region.

We have our own ideas about how this will look, making efforts to build up or Jobs Board as well as offering detailed advertising packages. However, we wanted to throw open our revenue strategy to you, our readers, and the community-at-large, for criticism and advice.

That is why we are partnering with Philly Startup Leaders to be the subject of the group’s next Fishbowl at the University of Arts on Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. REGISTER HERE.

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Temple interns to report on city technology issues

You just might see some new bylines pop up here at Technically Philly in the coming months.

Chelsea Leposa and Jared Pass will be among the first. They come to us as interns from Temple University’s journalism capstone class, the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, which features a neighborhood-focused newsroom that publishes to the Philadelphia Neighborhoods news site. Thusly, Leposa and Pass will be chasing down stories on Philadelphia technology issues and those working to remedy them.

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Photos from our January Technology Networking Happy Hour

Our second monthly meetup was a success, and now photos of the event have surfaced. Event Organizer Brett Silver of Center City Philadelphia was on-hand to shoot photos of the evening, and we can’t say they could have turned out any better. Look at all the pretty people!

More of the shots are available at the Center City Philadelphia event page.

Spot any buddies? Let ‘em know, or drop their names in the comments. And stay tuned for more information about our February meetup.

Thanks to all who came to our second monthly meetup

From the bottom of our techie hearts, thanks to all who came out to Public House in Logan Square for our joint Happy Hour with Center City Philadelphia. By our count, more than 45 people braved the cold for a free drink and a chance to mingle with fellow tech heads.

The TP staff saw many new faces and we welcome all the new readers we were able to speak with.

Much like our last meetup, we heard valuable praise, criticism and advice from you, our readers. We will be sure to tweet when the hundreds of photos snapped by fellow organizer Brett Silver are posted online.

We’re liking this whole face-to-face thing, so keep an ear out for our next meetup as we hope to continue the good times in February. Be sure to bring a notepad full of your thoughts on TP, some business cards and – most importantly – a thirst for some brews.

Tonight: Our Technology Professionals Happy Hour

We’re way into hanging out with the community in 2010. It’s practically our resolution. Join us and other technology professionals for a happy hour at Public House at Logan Square this evening.

We’ve partnered with event promoter Center City Philadelphia and others to setup the event, and it turned out not so shabby, we say—you get a free drink just for being there.

More important is the opportunity to network with folks who are interested in the same things as you are. No, not drinking, silly. Technology. Events. And shiny, shiny business cards. See you there!