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 The 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is ongoing in New Orleans from August 3 to 7, 2009.  The Siggraph Conference is being held at the New Orleans Convention Center and details about the program can be found on the web at the conference web site. For more information on Louisiana's digital interactive media tax credit program, please go visit the exhibits presented by the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, Greater New Orleans, Inc. and the Baton Rouge Digital Industries Consortium. 

Erich P Rapp.

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The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival web site describes Synch Up:

"Sync Up: The Jazz & Heritage Talent Exchange is a series of morning conference sessions held the Friday and Saturday of both festival weekends (April 24-25 and May 1-2), from 9 a.m. to noon. Topics to be discussed include the economic climate for international music festivals, distributing music through such digital media as video games, artist development in the Internet age, new funding mechanisms like nonprofit record labels, copyright protection and more.

The Sync Up conference takes place at the Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart St.) — a historic building adjacent to the Foundation offices that the Foundation purchased last year and is converting into an education center.

Admission is free, but advance registration is required as seating is limited. Please register online, or by calling (504) 558-6100." 

This year's Synch Up Conference will include:

"Legendary talent scout Seymour Stein, hit-making songwriter Jill Sobule and video-game music guru Randy Eckhardt will be among the featured speakers at the second annual Sync Up conference, presented by the the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival."

For more information on the Synch Up Conference, see the schedule at the Synch Up Conference web page.

Erich P Rapp.

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Eric Marcoullier will speak at the Tulane Business School at 5:30 PM on Monday April 20, 2009 at Goldring/Woldenberg Hall 2) Room 2110.

According to the Tulane Entrepreneur's Association:

"Marcoulllier isCEO and co-founder of the online data services company Gnip, Inc.  He previously co-founded MyBlogLog, a distributed social network for bloggers that sold to Yahoo in 2007.  Eric's other ventures have included CEO and co-founder of training games provider Minerva Software and co-founder of IGN.com, which sold to Fox Interactive Media in 2005.  He advises several companies, including recent Automattic acquisition Intense Debate, as well as Future US, Zynga Games, Zemanta and Zentact and Megamesium, both of which he also co-founded."

Sounds like a pretty good presentation. This information comes to you largely as a result of a Facebook entry from Chris Schultz of Voodoo Ventures. I would not have known of this event without the post from Chris, and I am kind of late getting it up in any case. Wish I could get there for the presentation.

Erich P. Rapp.

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On Friday April 10, 2009 and Saturday April 11, 2009, the Hotel LeCirque in New Orleans, Louisiana was the host to WordCamp NOLA 2009. The speakers presented to a sold out crowd of Internet platform and social media enthusiasts.

The event included presentations and panels on social media advertising strategies, the impact of social media on traditional news media, using Wordpress tools for blogging, and even advice from a millennial blogger on connecting with a younger audience.

The audience seemed interested and attentive, and the volume of tweets to #wordcampNOLA was enormous. Hopefully, the WordCamp NOLA event will be repeated next year. More information can be found at the WordCamp NOLA website.  

Erich P. Rapp.

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