Digital Capital Week kicks off with a big party tonight at and around Long View Gallery in NW. There are a ton of great events (including one hosted by TBD) over the following week for the DC area digital/tech community.

I’m excited to announce today that I am joining the Washington, D.C., digital news startup led by Jim Brady and Allbritton Communications. I’ll be working as Senior Community Host on Steve Buttry‘s community engagement team, developing ways to work with bloggers and users to generate, share and discuss content.
Our goal is to build an online news site for the DC metro area, and do it taking full advantage of the how the web works — with partnership not competition, users not readers, …

The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association released today its Keystone Awards for the best journalism of 2009. My Times-Tribune news reporters cleaned up first place in our division for all the major reporting categories — investigative, spot news and series. The total newsroom haul is 12 awards, also for features, sports, photos and design. This comes shortly after we won a PNA award for “Best Application of Social Networking Tools.”
Great work by the following, and those who helped make it happen:

First place, Investigative Reporting, Borys Krawczeniuk, for his stories on Bob …

I’m taking a moment to brag about a great accomplishment at our newspaper. The Times-Tribune won the Best Application of Social Networking Tools in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s 2010 Newspaper Excellence in Cyberspace awards.
Here is the judges’ statement:
“Great to see that personal and conversation updates occur on the Facebook and Twitter accounts for the newspaper. Most newspapers overlook this opportunity and risk losing some of their followers because of it. Not here! We were also impressed that the staff goes to the “Tweet-Ups” in the area. Overall, the diversity and …