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Highlight Midwest postponed
The third annual Highlight Midwest conference has been postponed until further notice. Originally scheduled to be held in Omaha on November 18th, the event will…
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Lava Row open house this Friday, Nov. 5, On Pitch set for SXSW Music
Stop by Lava Row this Friday night for the official open house for the new offices of the Des Moines-based social media consulting, strategy and education firm. The former East Village company has relocated west of the river in the Brown-Camp Lofts building (100 Market Street, Unit 115). Doors open at 6 p.m. and cocktails…
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A visit to Malone & Company’s new office
This post is way overdue (as in six weeks overdue), but it’s a super cool one. A couple months ago the folks at Malone & Company (the one’s behind the stellar Big Omaha photography) moved into a new studio. A warehouse that used to house a skateboard park is now home to their photo and…
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Deadline Approaching: Invest Nebraska $50k Venture Competition
A quick reminder that if you’d like to enter your startup into Invest Nebraska Corporation’s second annual East-2-West New Venture Competition the deadline is November 8.
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Tim Westergren holding Pandora Listener Town Hall in Omaha
Described as an informal gathering, Pandora founder Tim Westergren will be holding a Pandora Listener Town Hall at The Durham Museum (801 South 10th Street) next Thursday, November 11 at 7 p.m. Found In Benson, a weekly cut and paste culture zine, is hosting the event. The event is free and open to the public…
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GeoClip.it adds ‘daily deals’ in latest update – interview with CTO
(Left, Dustin Anderson, Eliason Media CTO) Eliason Media, an Urbandale, Iowa-based application development and consulting company, recently released an update to its latest product, GeoClip.it, a location-based mobile advertising aggregator application for the iPhone. Here are the listed new features released with Version 1.2, from itunes.apple.com: sort deals by distance; send deals to yourself via…
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@BadBanana gets a book deal
Lincolnite Tim Siedell, a.k.a. @badbanana on Twitter, has yet to ink a television deal to turn his tweets into a script for William Shatner (see: “$h*! My Dad Says”). Soon enough, however, his tweets will be appearing in ink with the release of his first book, “Marching Bands Are Just Homeless Orchestras, Half-Empty Thoughts, Volume…
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Tools for the Trade: Flowtown finds online presence of contacts
Whoever told you that email is dead is wrong. Email addresses are still where the gold (or money, unless you’re Scrooge McDuck) lies. Thanks to tools like Flowtown, you can now use all those emails you’ve been collecting and turn them into real marketing power. Flowtown is a social media marketing tool that takes your…
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More Madoff assets up for auction, Proxibid selected for online auction
Looking to pick up a pair of black velveteen slippers, size 8.5, with red quilted lining? (Left, photo courtesy of Proxibid.) The only catch, or possibly a positive for the buyer, they’re embroidered “BLM” for Bernard Lawrence Madoff, the former stock broker and investment adviser who is now incarcerated after admitting to a Ponzi scheme.…
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Social Media Coordinator, Web App Developer, Producer & More
We’re excited to bring you our thirtieth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Sergeants Pet Care Products and Orion Advisor Services in Omaha and Snitily Carr and…