July 15, 2010

  • Joe Moglia shares advice for young professionals & entrepreneurs

    In addition to putting his leadership skills to work inside of TD AMERITRADE, Joe Moglia, the company’s current chairman and former CEO, has been sharing them at conferences, fundraisers, and universities over the past decade. Friends of mine that have seen him speak say he’s one of the most inspirational speakers they have heard. Although…

  • Experience & Web Designer

    We’re excited to bring you our twentieth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Phenomblue in Omaha and ScoreYard in Des Moines. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company.

  • MindMixer provides online idea collaboration for offline communities

    When launching community planning and city design projects, town hall meetings are vital to provoking idea collaboration between civic leaders and citizens in order to ensure projects are suitable for their community. Nick Bowden and the Community ReDesigned team have attended town hall-style meetings for several years to retain ideas for their own community planning…

  • TEDxOmaha set for October 16, speaker suggestions welcome

    (Photo by TEDxBuenosAires via Flickr) TED is synonymous with remarkable. Each spring, it holds its flagship conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs. Outside of those, TED holds a handful of other conferences, such as TEDGlobal. Whatever or wherever, the organization consistently puts well-known and respected thought leaders on stage for 18 minutes of inspiration.…

  • Stacking Up: Carter Cast brings marketing legacy to Hayneedle

    Before Carter Cast began building futures with the nation’s leading companies, he was more interested in the building of past civilizations. The Stanford University graduate was a history buff during his college years. Going on to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science, Cast, as a child, was more so an archaeologist who collected rocks…