New Orleans Tech

Four Local Entrepreneurs Launch Indiegogo Campaign for Children’s Book

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:20:01 +0000

The newly launched Indiegogo campaign is for a locally written, illustrated, and printed book What the Sleepy Animals Do at the Audubon Zoo. For months, four newly local New Orleanians have been brainstorming, researching and creative this soon-to-be published children’s story focused on the playful, sleepy animals at the zoo. Read more at Silicon Bayou News: http://siliconbayounews.com/2012/12/17/four-local-entrepreneurs-launch-indiegogo-campaign-for-childrens-book/

GNO Inc. To Create Technology Advisory Group

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:22:53 +0000

Greater New Orleans Inc is creating a Technology Task Force dubbed the TechNO Task Force that will became an advisory group to focus on initiatives related to the growth of the technology sector in the region, including workforce and marketing. The goals of the group will be twofold: To create strategies that will develop and [...]

GOOD Ideas For New Orleans Is Looking For Designers, Coders, & Artists To Help With Community Projects

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:08:14 +0000

GOOD Ideas for New Orleans, a collaboration between Neighborland.com and GOOD.is are looking for local designers, coders, architects, artists and writers to participate in several community projects. GOOD Ideas for New Orleans, a program that recruits creative people to tackle real challenges proposed by civic leaders. As a collaborator, you’ll work together to create a [...]

GNO Inc. Puts Out RFP For Redesign of WorkNOLA.com

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:36:10 +0000

Launched in 2008, WorkNOLA.com was setup between several community partners as the premier place to search for local jobs in New Orleans. Currently the site has 2,039 jobs posted from 819 companies. Greater New Orleans Inc (GNO Inc), the current administrators for the site have put out a request for proposal in order to revamp [...]

The Official New Orleans Jazz Festival App

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:18:53 +0000

Anyone who is a fan of good music, good times and good food has obviously gone or heard of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. New Orleans natives refer to it as the jazz fest for short. The Jazz Fest is held annually to showcase Louisiana music and cultural heritage. This Jazz Fest application [...]

Skillshare Visits New Orleans

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:42:19 +0000

Fresh off the trail-blazing heels of SXSW comes Skillshare, the “un-university” of online universities. By “un-university,” think along the lines of BarCampNOLA or BizCampNOLA’s un-conferences, but in the social sharing platform of our online world. And when I mean here comes Skillshare, I mean, literally. Tonight, March 13, 2012, at Capdeville from 5:30pm to 7pm, Michael [...]

French Market Vendors Receive A Gift Of Google Ad Dollars From Micro Lender

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Blueprint Investment Fund is a 501(c)(3), non profit economic development corporation who serve Low-income, disadvantaged, minority and women entrepreneurs with financial and technical resources. The mission of the blueprint investment fund is to alleviate poverty, chronic unemployment, and economic inequality in America’s urban and rural centers. Blueprint investment funding accomplish this mission by providing private [...]

Why I Love New Orleans Art (and the Arts Council of New Orleans)

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:24:34 +0000

In thinking about what I love about the Arts Council, their many exciting online initiatives and why you should love them too; I’ve mostly been thinking about why I love New Orleans art and how art is so fundamental to our culture. Mayor Moon Landrieu understood that when he appointed the Cultural Resources Committee which [...]

TurboSquid Launches 3D Programming Contest With Top Prize of $1000

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:16:37 +0000

TurboSquid, a New Orleans based 3D modeling company, is hosting a Checkmate Tools contest until March 31st 2012. The challenge is to create a tool that automatically inspects a 3D model within 3ds Max, then generates a detailed report outlining how well the model meets the CheckMate Pro standard. CheckMate Pro is the industry’s first standard for [...]

Ruby On Rails Classes in NOLA

neworleanstech@gmail.com (Liz Money & Chris B.) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:01:09 +0000

Learning to code can be a daunting task. Sure there are books, online tutorials, and videos but what if that’s not enough? Sometimes having one on one time with a teacher can help you work through problems you run across or questions you may have. Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene hopes this is true by putting on a [...]