February 6, 2014

  • Past 1 Million Cups presenter Looky Loo Light takes to Kickstarter

    Allison Carenza wants to help professional child photographers like herself stop multitasking. Squeezing a toy at an infant may work for a few minutes, but not a whole shoot, and with the need of having someone’s help or having to one-hand the camera. The Kansas Citian came up with the Looky Loo Light…

  • Iowa non-profit needs volunteers to help teach homeless to code

    Last summer New Yorker Patrick McConlogue made headlines when he offered a homeless man a choice: $100 cash or JavaScript textbooks, a laptop and an offer to teach him how to code. Leo Grand chose the latter. Now thousands have heard his story through major media outlets as well as McConlogue’s personal blog and the…

  • Ryan Freitas, co-founder of about.me, joining the Big Omaha speaker lineup

    Over the past two weeks, we have announced a new speaker joining the Big Omaha lineup each Thursday. Today we’re excited to release the third speaker joining us at 2014’s Big Omaha before following up with one more next Thursday before tickets go on sale. We are thrilled to have Ryan Freitas, co-founder of about.me,…