Baton Rouge agency Object 9 helped create a free job board website for ad agencies and personnel displaced by Hurricane Katrina, reports Adweek (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The site, PostKatrinaTalent.org, also lists organizations that have offered the use of computers to ad personnel who need to draft resumes. The Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce - one of Object 9's major clients and a sponsor of PostKatrinaTalent.org - is helping businesses that were flooded out of New Orleans find new digs in Baton Rouge, some 65 miles west of New Orleans. Baton Rouge's business population has boomed as businesses have set up operations there.
Other sponsors of the site include the Ad Club of New Orleans, Baton Rouge Ad Fed, Entrepreneurs' Organization, Forum 35, software developer 4D, Louisiana State University Continuing Education, and the Public Relations Association of Louisiana-Baton Rouge.
