A summary of the talk I gave at TribeCon, October 28, 2010, about NOLAlicious entitled “Email Never Died. How to Build a Community through an E-Newsletter.”

The view from the stage, TribeCon, New Orleans, 2010

Right before I give a talk, I always take a picture from the stage (see: IgniteNOLA, CEPIC and SXSW and Photoshelter’s Austin Photo Seminar, for starters). I take them because it’s a marker, a ritual, and it’s fun.

Last year at TribeCon I was on a panel with Sloane Berrent, Carl Nelson and Shannon Lane called “Making Yourself Uncomfortable”, about how to rawk a new community.

As many of you know, last year’s TribeCon was a key part to creating the connections that led me to move to New Orleans last year and co-found NOLAlicious with Sloane and Carl. NOLAlicious was a project we created to keep us digging into New Orleans, to keep the adventurous spirit alive, and to learn about email newsletters. We created NOLAlicious to share what we found around New Orleans with “the eye of a tourist and the soul of a native”.

As NOLAlicious blossomed and grew throughout the year, we learned a couple things about building an email newsletter and growing a community, and it was these lessons that I shared at TribeCon in a talk entitled “Email Never Died. How to Build a Community through an E-Newsletter”.

Embedded below, the slides from the talk:

To everyone in the NOLAlicious community, thank you for continuing to help us grow, for pointing us around NOLA and participating in our adventures, for sharing your New Orleans with us, and for keeping us straight when we make a mistake. Signing up for the newsletter, following us on Facebook and Twitter, all of these are appreciated, but it’s the engagement, support and pointers that keep us going. For that, thank you.

Already looking forward to TribeCon 2011…