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  • RockDex hits the road, speaking tour

    Since launching last March, there’s no question that Jimmy Winter’s latest project, RockDex, has made traction. The writeup he received from Jolie O’Dell on ReadWriteWeb in August was a big milestone, as well as the subject it covered: Jimmy’s merger with Locker Partner in Kansas City. These past two weeks will likely also go down…

  • “Storenvy Social” launched today

    Kansas City-based Storenvy, an online store system and marketplace, kicked their site up a level today with the launch of “Storenvy Social.” Here’s an excerpt from the update they sent out to store owners last Friday: On Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, we’ll be releasing a major update to Storenvy.com: an all-new “social shopping” side of the…

  • 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…

  • What’s your highlight of the Midwest?

    The question in the title was one of three that I asked 17 attendees at last Friday’s Highlight Midwest in Des Moines. The other questions: who are you, where are you from, and who from the conference would you like to have lunch with next week? The last question was unexpected by most, and a…

  • Upcoming event: Ignite Kansas City at Kauffman Foundation

    Here’s a great upcoming event for the folks in Kansas City (and honestly, the entire region, although registration is capped around 150!) Bo Fishback and the team at the Kauffman Foundation are announcing Ignite Kansas City to be held on November 3rd. Read on for more information… If you had five minutes on stage to…

  • Interview with Twitassist.me team member, Luke Pillow

    A couple of weeks ago, I conducted an email interview with Luke Pillow, a member of the Kansas City-based team, The Phoenix-Durango, that developed Twitassist.me for the 2009 Rails Rumble. The Ruby on Rails web application is now fully functional, and since I don’t have a cause of my own to promote, I’ll give some…

  • A highlight video from BarCampKC

    BarCampKC was held this past weekend and Omaha’s own Joe Frost (@OmahaJoe on Twitter) was there. While there, he was able to catch a great interview with Steven Chau about BarcampKC and the entrepreneurial scene in the Kansas City region. It’s “BarCamp Season” and if you haven’t already registered for Omaha’s event this coming weekend,…

  • Guest Post: Interview with Brian Solis, author of “Putting the Public back in Public Relations”

    Updated title of post on 9/22 at 1:07 p.m. Last Thursday, Brian Solis, principal at FutureWorks and founder of the Social Media Club organization, spoke to the Greater Kansas City’s PRSA chapter about “The State of Social Media.” KC video blogger, Ramsey Mohsen, attended the event and grabbed an interview with Solis after it. He’s…

  • Kansas City and Lawrence to host twestival local events

    In less than two weeks, Twestival Local, an event inspired by a group of London Twitterers’ Harvest Twestival in 2008, will be taking place in cities all over the world. On The Prairie, Lawrence will be hosting one on the 10th for the Lawrence Humane Society, and Kansas City on the 11th for the Wayside…

  • Five in Five with Shane Adams from Shane Life

    Name: Shane Adams Full-time job and title: Program Manager, Online Marketing, Cerner Corporation (opinions are my own) City you’re blogging from: Kansas City, namely a Kansas suburb called Olathe, home of the cowboy boot Name, subject and URL of your blog: Shane Life, kinda self-explanatory, isn’t it? shanelife.com Link to my video: