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October 27, 2009

  • Five in Five with Brooke Ossenkop from Hilton Omaha

    Name: Brooke Ossenkop Full-time job: Director of Revenue Management at Hilton Omaha City you’re blogging from: Omaha! Name, subject and URL of your blog: Hilton Omaha Blog (aka Omaha Online Coffee Table Book), awesome stuff that Omaha has to offer, HiltonOmaha.WordPress.com Link to your video: 1. What is the name, subject and URL of your…

  • MAHA Music Festival and BarCamp Omaha takeaways

      Last weekend, I met a friend for some coffee. Conversation drifted toward a subject that comes up from time to time: Why do we live in Omaha? We both had somewhat different perspectives on the subject. For me, the answer is simple. I actually came to Omaha telling myself that I would live here…

  • Invest Nebraska’s East-2-West competition to award $50,000 to entrepreneur

    Added mention of Lincoln Journal Star article on 10/28 at 10:50 a.m. From the same organization that sponsors our Creative Capital Pitch Session $1,000 prize, comes a competition much larger in prize money and scope. On December 11th, East-2-West: The Nebraska New Venture Competition will award an entrepreneur or team a $50,000 equity investment from…

  • Gov 2.0 Innovation Challenge to award cash & paid internship to college student

    In a few weeks, Omaha-based Grattifi Tracker will hold its first-ever Government 2.0 Innovation Challenge (G2IC), a weekend competition in which college students will be required to develop a technology solution to aid government with public safety. The competition kicks off Friday, November 13th at the Graffiti Tracker (GT) office (12165 W. Center Road, Suite…

  • What’s your highlight of the Midwest?

    The question in the title was one of three that I asked 17 attendees at last Friday’s Highlight Midwest in Des Moines. The other questions: who are you, where are you from, and who from the conference would you like to have lunch with next week? The last question was unexpected by most, and a…