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Omaha mayoral candidate meet and greet events are April 24 and May 3
Leading up to the City of Omaha’s general election May 14, The Mastercraft will serve as the venue for two meet and greet events with mayoral candidates Jean Stothert (left) and Jim Suttle (right). It’s important for the future of our city to have a mayor that not only understands, but supports Omaha’s high level…
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New Omaha app aims to help citizens report problems around town
The City of Omaha is enlisting smartphone-wielding residents in the fight against grafitti, illegal dumping and other problems that pop up around town. Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle (left) on Thursday unveiled the new Omaha Mobile App (OMA), a smart phone application that allows users to shoot and submit photos of problems they spot in Omaha.…
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Omaha looks to engage citizens with help of MindMixer
Omaha mayor Jim Suttle today announced the launch of EngageOmaha.com, one of the nation’s first city-wide, virtual town hall websites. The city launched the site in collaboration with Omaha-based startup MindMixer, which offers web-based idea generation and concept prioritization services. Together, the mayor’s office and MindMixer aim to …
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Prairie Moves: Carl Zulauf, Alex Gates, Megan Hunt & more
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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On Twitter today, Mayor Suttle engaging like ‘Old Spice Guy’
Like the rest of Omaha today, the mayoral recall vote has our attention here in the Silicon Prairie News office. With our focus on our region’s startup community, however…
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Behind the scenes of the Delivering Happiness Bus Tour
Last week the Delivering Happiness bus descended on Omaha, Nebraska. It was the second time that Tony Hsieh along with members of the Zappos and Delivering Happiness team were in our city, the first being Hsieh’s talk at Big Omaha 2010. When I heard that Hsieh was planning a bus tour across America on behalf…
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Prairie Moves: John Gustafson, Agile Sports, Oxide Design & more
The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Recap of Regional Energy Innovation Summit held in Omaha
If I had to imagine what participation in a Washington think tank would be like, I’d recollect my experience at last Wednesday’s Regional Energy Innovation Summit at the Gallup Organization’s Omaha campus, a follow up of the Energy Innovation Summit that took place May 7 at the White House. Thanks to a partnership between Gallup,…
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Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event
Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…
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Secret Penguin & Archrival launch government websites today
I think it’s cool to see government entities hire forward-thinking design firms to redesign their websites, so when I saw these two tweets this morning, I had to pass them along