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PrairieCast video: foursquare in Des Moines, fiber in the Silicon Prairie
This week we had two PrairieCast rookies on the show, OpenAir Equity Partners’ executive-in-residence Thad Langford and Drake University social media strategy instructor Chris Snider. We discussed the successful efforts of Snider’s class to procure a badge for Des Moines on the popular social platform foursquare, Langford’s investment in Kansas City-based …
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You’ll like this: I live in Omaha creators launch I love in Omaha site
It’s only a one-letter change from a popular grassroots campaign, but it’s a whole new feeling. The team at What Cheer, the Omaha website design and development studio behind the I live in Omaha campaign, today launched I love in Omaha. The site, which What Cheer’s John Henry Müller calls the “I live in Omaha…
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Chris Snider and Thad Langford
Join us at 2 p.m. for Episode 74 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. Guests this week are Chris Snider, a multimedia journalism instructor at Drake University, and Thad Langford, the former president of Zave Networks and current executive in residence at OpenAir Equity Partners. …
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Fast Company deems Dwolla, Zaarly among ‘Most Innovative Companies’
Fast Company, a magazine dedicated to reporting on “fast companies” and entrepreneurs, has released its annual “World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” list to highlight organizations “whose innovations are having an impact across their industries and our culture.” Two startups with Silicon Prairie ties received a nod as a part of the ranking. Dwolla, based in…
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KC Chamber, Think Big and H&R Block team up for new conference
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and Think Big Partners today announced that they are teaming up with H&R Block to host a new innovation and entrepreneurship conference later this year. The all-day conference, which is a combination of two events — the Chamber’s Innovation Conference and Think Big Kansas City — that were…