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August 2009

  • Heartland Developers Conference offering discount to SPN readers

    Note: From time to time, we will be publishing sponsored posts featuring content from our Big Omaha 2009 sponsors. Phenomblue is a multi-platform digital creation company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Last week, Joe Olsen of Phenomblue, the director of the Heartland Developers Conference (HDC), contacted me with an exclusive HDC09 offer: use the discount code…

  • Empty Room looking for Nov. tenant, proposals due Friday

    I just retweeted the above from @SiliconPrairie, but I felt it needed a post, as well. What began this past June as a “six month long experiment,” has proved to be a solid example of Omaha’s creative and innovative community. According to Empty Room’s website, Bluestone Development, Secret Penguin, and What Cheer created Empty Room…

  • Cornstalks Thursday: Ben Schaechter of GoPollGo

    It is Cornstalks time again, folks! Last month’s event, the first to feature a cocktail/networking hour before the usual meeting, was a huge success. Therefore, you can look forward to more of the same this Thursday: networking and cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and a new speaker at 7:30 p.m.  Of course, you can expect the…

  • Tools for the Trade: Screenr captures instant screencasts

    Have you ever wanted to be the smooth-talking voice narrating a screencast of the latest web application or social network? Well, now thanks to Screenr you get the chance. Screenr is a web-based recording application that allows you to record instant screencasts on your computer and then share with your followers on Twitter. The tool…

  • MVF: Stephanie Healy speaks at Entrepreneur Networking Reception

    At Thurday night’s Midlands Venture Forum event, Omahan Stephanie Healy spoke about her experiences founding, running, and later selling Vente, formerly WFSdirect, to Experian in 2005. In the first 14 minutes, she shares her success story, from her job at Omaha Steaks in the 90s where she learned direct marketing on the web to helping…

  • Local developer contributes to jQuery book, joins jQuery team

    In my interview with Jonathan Sharp a few months ago, he mentioned he was currently contributing to a manual being written on jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library which simplifies the JavaScript language. I received an email from him earlier this week with the news that it’s been published and is now on Amazon…

  • Weekly Wrap Up

    Mentioned this week: Sali Sasaki and Jay Corless from Cities x Design blog visit Omaha, MAHA Music Festival coming up in a week, SXSW PanelPicker went live this past Monday, panel submitted: “Don’t Move: Build a Startup Community Where You Live,” other local submissions to SXSWi, Five Nines named to Inc 500 list, congrats to…

  • MVF Update: Change of speaker at tonight’s Entrepreneur Networking Reception

    I just received a note from Dennis Wellendorf, executive director of the Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), that tonight’s scheduled speaker is unable to make it due to a travel conflict. No need to worry though, they quickly found an excellent replacement, Omahan Stephanie Healy. She’ll be sharing her story about founding a startup with her…

  • Five in Five with Tony Montgomery from Illustrate Omaha

    Name: Tony Montgomery Full-time job and title: Freelance Illustrator/Graphic Designer/Student City you’re blogging from: Omaha, Nebraska Name, subject and URL of your blog: Illustrate Omaha, The Omaha Creative Community, illustrateomaha.com Link to your video:

  • MVF: Entrepreneur Networking Reception Thursday

    Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an organization we partnered with earlier this year to promote and share video of their events, will be hosting an Entrepreneur Networking Reception this Thursday at DJ’s Dugout (114th & W. Dodge in Miracle Hills). Most often, their get-togethers take place at the Scott Conference Center and include a cocktail hour,…