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 [...]

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 & [...]

The sixth annual Louisiana High School Online Technology Challenge will take place on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2012 with participation of many dozens of high schools across the state of Louisiana.  The Technology Challenge is an annual state-wide competition among high school students in Louisiana. Every high school in Louisiana can enter a single team composed of up to 15 [...]

Coders, developers, designers…start your engines! Varoom…..Varoom. Too much? Now that the “start your engine” cliché is behind us, let’s talk about Hack Dat; a code competition taking place in New Orleans on December 9th through December 11th.  Code competitions have become popular because they allow people to come together and create something with the help [...]