Big Omaha 2009

  • Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details – Part II

    Today, I continue going through the presentation that Danny and I gave to a group of Startup Weekend organizers in Kansas City earlier this month. The presentation centered around the details of Big Omaha, and how they’re such a vital part of what makes the event special. In part one of this post, I covered…

  • From blog to book: The story behind Nerdy Thirty

    Thanks to Nerdy Thirty by Wendy Townley for sponsoring Silicon Prairie News this week. This sponsored post was written by Wendy Townley. | I began blogging in 2003 as a way to have a little fun with my writing. The ability to put fingers to Macintosh and share my thoughts to the world with a…

  • Sunday Video Series: Big Omaha 2009: The Impromptu Panel

    With Big Omaha 2010 just around the corner, it’s time we release a Big Omaha 2009 video for our Sunday Video Series, and the one I’ve chosen is the most unique of them all. When Matt Mullenweg had to cancel at last minute, we had a 30-minute time slot open up. In response, Jeffrey Kalmikoff,…

  • Work by Archrival & Phenomblue recognized by Webby Awards

    Congrats to Lincoln-based Archrival, a youth marketing agency, for being named a Webby Award nominee and Omaha-based Phenomblue, an interactive experience agency, for twice being named an official honoree. About the awards, from webbyawards.com: The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established…

  • Big Omaha 2010 is here!

    It’s with great excitement that I officially announce the unveiling of the Big Omaha 2010 website! After what proved to be an amazingly inspiring event last year, and realizing that we wanted to put together a follow up event, we’ve been busy working with speakers and sponsors to put things together for May 13-15. Today,…

  • Top five videos of Big Omaha 2009

    In keeping with the spirit of revealing the top videos and posts of 2009, we wanted to bring you the top five videos of Big Omaha 2009! The temperature seems to be shifting, if at least for a few days, and we are encouraged by the fact …

  • Here comes 2010!

    It’s crazy to be writing 2010! How’d we go from worrying about whether or not our lights would stay on at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2000 to Jan. 1, 2010 already?! This past year has been one of amazing growth and development for Silicon Prairie News. Looking back at the growth over the past…

  • SPN talks with Jason Fried about Haystack.com

    This week we had an opportunity to speak with Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals and a Big Omaha 2009 speaker, about his company’s latest project, Haystack.com. Haystack is a new way for clients and web designers to find each other. One of the main reasons that Silicon Prairie News exists is to spotlight our…

  • SPN interviews Wendy Townley about her Big Omaha case study

    Wendy Townley produced a thorough review of Big Omaha 2009, and I wanted to talk with her to learn more about her reasons behind writing the paper and what she hoped to gain by researching the inaugural event. If you haven’t already read her paper, please take the time to check it out at WendyTownley.com/BigOmaha.…

  • BIG OMAHA Shoutout…Thanks Guy!

    Guy Kawasaki put out a post on Twitter regarding the BIG OMAHA Conference which links back to the site he founded, Truemors.   We at SPN appreciate all the postitive buzz going on around the Conference and inivite you to go to the Truemors link to both vote and spread the news about the link!  Right now, the story…