A local web design and development expert and a social media strategy company owner want to take your website “From Zero To Website in 3 Hours.” Class leaders Megan Hargroder, Founder of Conversations, and Alyson Kilday, co-founder of Hop and Jaunt, are hosting a hands-on class for startups and small businesses that want to get [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: 2012 Silicon Bayou 100: Group 4 David Rieveschl, Drew Brees, Dustin Puryear, Gary Soloman Jr., Hugh Uhalt, James McNamara, Jamie Smyth, Jared Loftus, Jason Nicosia, Jeff Lyons, and Jeff Pellegrin all made it to this year’s SBN 100. For [...]
Megan Hargroder Megan is the founder and CEO of Conversations LLC, a full-service social media strategy company, specializing in what’s most important when marketing your brand online: conversations. She works with small businesses and entrepreneurs on learning how to speak with their customers instead of TO them. On LinkedIn. On Twitter. Michael Azzano Michael is [...]
Did you miss BarCampNOLA 5? Wish you could do it all over again this weekend? We feel your pain, but you don’t have to wait a whole year to get back into the BarCampNOLA excitement. Silicon Bayou’s Editor, Molly Oehmichen, sat down with various participants during the event last weekend to chronicle her experience through [...]
The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Here are the most popular stories published on Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days: Silicon Bayou Tech Entrepreneurs Launch Stun Gun iPhone Case Co-founders Sean Simone and Seth Froom, young tech entreprenurs from right here in the Silicon Bayou, have launched their first product, [...]
I read this really interesting article yesterday about how although Facebook captures about 14% of our online attention, only 4% of online advertising dollars are spent there. Weird, right? Reflecting upon my own Facebook ad buys, I’ve always found them to be very successful (and by “very successful” I really mean “hit or miss” but [...]
Facebook has been in new release overload over the past week – with several new site features and two new mobile apps including Pages and Camera. Here’s the breakdown: Pages is an app dedicated to the management of brand pages. It loads a lot quicker and is much less buggier than the standard Facebook app [...]
Google Drive is the newest cloud-based storage platform that works a lot like Dropbox. If you have no idea what cloud-based storage is, read this and then choose a platform and get started before you lose all your data and end up crying for days. Chances are, you’re already using Dropbox. Me too – and [...]
When entering into the world of social media, many companies find themselves asking “who’s going to manage this?” Because it’s still so new, lots of people automatically outsource to a “professional social media manager.” And while I’m not trying to put myself out of work, I think that in most cases it make more sense [...]
Spring is in the air, and outdoor festivals are lined up for the next several weeks including French Quarter Fest, Jazz Fest, Festival Internationale….the list goes on and on! Stay savvy (and social) this festival season with these 5 apps that help you find your friends, be in the know and capture/share your experience. 1. [...]
