Lava Row

  • Lava Row founder Nathan Wright “hanging up the consulting hat”

    Nathan Wright, founder of Des Moines social media consulting firm Lava Row, announced today on his personal blog that he’ll be “hanging up the consulting hat” to step into Hy-Vee’s new digital marketing and innovation position. “Building, sustaining and growing Lava Row has been the most rewarding challenge of my life,” Wright wrote. “Along the way…

  • Lava Row, CDS Global present free showing of ‘Page One’ on Thursday

    “Page One: Inside the New York Times,” a film we encouraged our readers to see when it was released in July, has a special showing scheduled in Des Moines on Thursday thanks to the work of Lava Row and CDS Global. The two companies have teamed up to host a free screening of the documentary…

  • Prairie Portrait: Norah Carroll of Lava Row

    Bio: Lava Row strategist, Drake University j-school graduate, Minnesota native. Proud mother of a hedgehog named Woz (after Steve Wozniak, of course). | Title: Digital Strategist at Lava Row | Age: 22 | City: Des Moines, Iowa | Website: norahcarroll.com | Twitter: @norahcarroll | Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/norahcarroll | Intro music: “I Like to Move It” by…

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright, Tej Dhawan and Danny Schreiber (Video)

    We had a full house this week on PrairieCast with Lava Row’s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City Des Moines’ Tej Dhawan in studio and our own Danny Schreiber on Skype. We took a look back at both the top posts of 2011 as well as the most popular ones and gave our predictions on…

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Jordan Lampe (Video)

    This week on PrairieCast, we trotted out our favorite ugly Christmas sweaters. Rather, Andy brought his out, our guests Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and Jordan Lampe of Dwolla donned very shiny Christmas vests and I went with the more conservative ugly Christmas sweater T-shirt. We covered a lot of Dwolla …

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Tej Dhawan (Video)

    Lava Row’s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City’s Tej Dhawan are back for this week’s PrairieCast where we talk about Des Moines’ Startup Job Crawl, Zaarly’s Bo Fishback on the Cover of Entrepreneur magazine, tech blogger turnover, Ben Milne’s national TV debut and the unfortunate state of health insurance for startup companies. PrairieCast is a…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Nathan T. Wright and Tej Dhawan

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 63 of PrairieCast, streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office at the south end of Des Moines’ Silicon Sixth Avenue. Today’s guests are Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and Tej Dhawan of StartupCity Des Moines …

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Jordan Lampe (Video)

    After two weeks off for Thinc Iowa (me) and a new baby (Andy), we’re back with episode 60 of your favorite weekly podcast: PrairieCast! During those two weeks of “down time,” we came up with some new ideas for the show and we’ll be rolling them out over the next several episodes. First and foremost,…

  • Prairie Moves: Nick Nisi, Joe Petsick, TwitZip and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com.

  • PrairieCast with Norah Carroll and Mike Colwell (Video)

    Always planning ahead, Andy prepared our 52nd episode since I was scheduled to spend the week across the street as a dutiful juror at the Polk County Courthouse. However, the trial wrapped a good 20 minutes before showtime, so I jumped in the second chair to join guests Norah Carroll of Lava Row and Mike…