“In Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ~ President John F. Kennedy Just off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, British energy company BP is fighting the ongoing ramifications of a major oil spill not seen since the days the Exxon-Valdez in Alaska...Read More

On April 9 & 10, a room full of soon-to-be graduates from colleges across the Southeast attended the 2010 PRSSA Regional Conference in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and received HERO|farm’s digital take on the antique 8.5″ x 11″ resume. Farmers Reid Stone and Shaun Walker were asked to plant some seeds of social media knowledge with the goal of landing a...Read More

In an era full of belt-tightening, one local business is letting it all hang out. And at the same time, they’re also reconnecting smartphone users to lives put on hold by broken phones. On February 12th myPhoneMD, an innovative smartphone repair company, celebrated the grand opening of their fourth store in Southeast Louisiana. In just...Read More

In the 1860 U.S. census, New Orleans ranked as the 6th largest city in the United States. It was the only city in the South with over 100,000 people and one of the most important places in the country. Since then, we’ve found ourselves dropping steadily on almost every meaningful list and now find our city ranked...Read More

Maybe it was the “Obama wants you to go back to school” ads that were just too enticing. Maybe watching Van Wilder inspired them. Or maybe they were simply asked to be guest speakers. Whichever reason it was, HEROfarm went back to college and loved every minute of it. The team was allowed to speak on...Read More