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 [...]

While the Code for Americas fellows are in New Orleans working with city government on building a specialized system for citizens to use, they also plan on having a civic hackathon from Feb 24th and Feb 25th 2012.  A hackathon is an event where people can get together and use technology and their collective skills [...]

GE Capital will be opening the GE Capital Technology Center which will provide software development and IT support for the company's financial services business.  Louisiana Economic Development (LED) estimates that the 300 new GE Capital positions in New Orleans will result in approximately 301 new indirect jobs, for a total of more than 600 direct [...]

For the past year, New Orleans has emerged and earned respect from others as—believe it or not—a premier start-up city. According to National Public Radio, New Orleans now exceeds the national average for start-ups by nearly 30 percent. Inc.com has even dubbed New Orleans the coolest start-up city in America. We’ve all heard the stories [...]

City technology leaders from the department of Information Technology & Innovation (ITI) took center stage at a Net2NO meeting to discuss their 2012 goals, partnerships, and job opportunities.  Last year around this very same time, I gave a presentation at Net2NO entitled “Technology & New Orleans City Government: What’s Really Going On?” (Part 1 & [...]