Tails from Gatorworks

American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge Event: As technology continues to evolve and unite us, more and more consumers live their life on their phone. The media to know lies in the palm of your hand. Join digital expert Alessandra Lariu as she discusses the basics and guidelines to get an App completed.

Rodriguez selected for United Way new donor team

The Women’s Council of Greater Baton Rouge will be hosting “Women’s Week” September 25 – October 4, 2009. Brian Rodriguez of Gatorworks and Damien LaManna of Zymeaux will be conducting a seminar called “Use Social Media and Mobile Marketing in Your Business” on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center.

Two students launch online textbook exchange

11:20AM I’m here at day 2 of BarCamp NOLA 2009 in the LaunchPad building. We’re in concept meetings to discuss a system that would recruit and mobilize volunteers for the Greater New Orleans public schools. We think we want a system that will showcase current volunteer efforts as well as help communicate how prospective volunteers can get involved.

Brian Rodriguez Featured in Business Report

This past weekend my coworker @davidlink and I drove 1,500 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line to a little town called Boston, MA. Why would we undertake such a ridiculous feat you ask? My response is: To attend An Event Apart, only one of the greatest web design and development conferences on the face of this glorious planet.

Twitter News Aggregator Launches

A while back I came across Chris Brogan’s article on using Twitter for business, and I felt like it was a great guide for business owners who are still new to the Twitter craze. I decided it was about time that I include his ideas right here on the Gatorworks blog.

Brian Rodriguez was elected as one of the 12 new board of directors for the Baton Rouge chapter of the American Advertising Federation. The board will serve the organization for the next two years. AAF-BR consists of local professionals based in the fields of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, marketing, production and the buying or selling of advertising.

Check out this great blog post from The Design Reviver on the 20 Great (and 20 not so great) Logo Redesigns. Logos express complex ideas and concepts with simplified illustrations and typefaces that communicate distinctively and effectively. They are one of the most difficult aspects of graphic design for this reason.

Gatorworks recently designed a website for a nationwide news outlet called NewsFifty.com!

Gatorworks Creative Director to Speak at Conference

A big “Thank you” to all those who attended our little talk at Saturday’s AAF Conference. We’ve uploaded all our slides and resources, and they are available to you here. Even if you didn’t attend the presentation, feel free to check out “Making the Transition from Print to Web.”