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 [...]

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 [...]

  If you are a developer or programmer, chances are you've at least heard about Drupal. (If you haven't, its the third largest content management system available.) Well, New Orleans, we have the honor and privilege of hosting this year's Drupal summit, Drupal on the Bayou. "It's a Drupal Summit, At a Casino, In New [...]

Invoicing: the one thing that will make a small business owner sigh like a deflated balloon or a company’s accounting department run some poor financial software into the ground. Let’s face it: invoicing is not sexy. There is nothing ground-breaking about it, and there hasn’t been much change. Until now. InvoiceASAP, a new startup in [...]

A few years ago, Intel ran an ad in which Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB, walked into an Intel breakroom and was greeted (in slow-motion action) by fans swooning, declaring their fanaticism and asking for autographs, followed by the tagline “Our rockstars aren’t like your rockstars”. I imagine New York City this week was [...]