A short history of Technically Media

January 25, 2011 — Official launch of Constitution Daily.

January 24, 2011Announced Philly Tech Week.

January 5, 2011 – First day at our Center City office.

December 22, 2010 – Soft launch of Constitution Daily.

December 6, 2010 – Second full-time employee.

December 2010Submitted Cobblestone to Knight News Challenge.

October 6, 2010 – First Switch Philly. Also the night of Roy Halladay’s post season no-hitter.

June 25, 2010 – First full-time employee.

November 2009 – Submitted News Inkubator to Knight News Challenge.

Sept 2009 – Sold our first advertisement. And there was much rejoicing.

April 22, 2009 – Hosted first BarCamp NewsInnovation.

Feb 9, 2009 – Created Technically Philly, company based in Frankford.

2006 – 2008 – All three Technically Media founders meet at The Temple News while in college.

Why We’re Here

Technically Media is an online publishing strategy firm. Our consulting work focuses on the building better audiences through content, editorial and social media strategy, in addition to innovating news in revenue and engagement.

Our mission is empowering, expanding and bolstering new and existing content creators and instilling an understanding of authentic audience growth with the journalistic ethics of transparency. At heart, we are journalists.

Simply we build better audiences.

What We Do

Founded in February 2009, TM’s small, focused, innovative team operates in two broad and related functions: content and editorial strategy.

Technical.ly — Our flagship work is with Technnical.ly, a local technology news network that launched in 2009 with Technically Philly. The  mission is to make cities better through technology. (Read more about our work.)

Consulting — Our client work focuses on web publishing, primarily in editorial and social strategy. (Read more about our services)

Where We Do

Though proudly based in Philadelphia, our work brings us elsewhere. Contact us if you’re interested in hearing more, or try filling out our Project Planner.

Because of our passions, we also help organize the local ONA and Content Strategy Meetup groups.

Technically Media Inc. is an incorporated business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Officially based in the Fishtown neighborhood, we have offices in Center City Philadelphia.

Founding Partners

Technically Media was founded in 2009 by three young journalists, with backgrounds in technology, business and work-flow innovation.

Sean Blandasean@technicallymedia.com

Lives: South Philadelphia.
Philosophy: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the finished.
Twitter: @seanblanda
When you see Sean ask him about: The Philadelphia Eagles.

Co-founder Blanda transitioned out of day-to-day company responsibilities in June 2012. In his three years with the company, he led IT for the company, venture capital coverage for Technically Philly and was project manager for client National Constitution Center.

Brian James Kirk | brian@technicallymedia.com

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Lives: Spring Garden, Philadelphia.
Philosophy: Don’t talk about it; do it.
Twitter: @brianjameskirk
When you see Brian ask him about: Early 90′s punk rock.

Kirk handles operations, proposals, client work and content strategy for Technically Media, managing projects like PlanPhilly’s Desolate to Dynamic, a grant-funded explanatory journalism series, Broadband2035, a grant-funded investigative series for Technically Philly, TM’s flagship product, and Constitution Daily, an editorial platform and strategy designed for the National Constitution Center. Kirk gets a kick out of hobby design, responsible for TM’s graphics and thinking about the next big mapping/data visualization project.

Christopher Wink | chris@technicallymedia.com

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Lives: Fishtown, Philadelphia.
Philosophy: No judging in brainstorming.
Twitter: @christopherwink
When you see Chris ask him about: Philadelphia politics.

Christopher Wink is a co-founder and full-time partner with Technically Media, where he is editor of the Technical.ly local technology news network. He writes regularly about news innovation and best business practices on his blog here. In his free time, the bicyclist commuter contributes to hyperlocal news site NEast Philly and launched the Story Shuffle story series.

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