We’ve rounded up more than a half-dozen creative, clever and sometimes confusing holiday greetings from startups, web development shops, marketing firms and, in its usual festive mode, Google. Check out the short descriptions and screenshots below for a link to each item of seasonal cheer (screenshots from respective websites), and don’t forget to visit our holiday post to see our picture with Santa.
(If we’re missing a holiday greetings in the Silicon Prairie, please add a link in a comment below or send it to danny@siliconprairienews.com.)
Interactive Shift, a web and mobile development firm in Des Moines, recapped its year and offered holiday greetings to the music of James Brown in its animated “Annual Report.”
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Team members of Lincoln’s Don’t Panic Labs, Nebraska Global‘s “people incubator” and the training ground for its in-house software development muscle, answered the question “What Christmas Means to Us.” (Video from Don’t Panic Labs on YouTube.)
Think Big Partners, an incubator and coworking space in Kansas City, held a contest titled “The 12 Days of Coworking.”
Employees of Far Reach Technologies, a web design and development firm in Cedar Falls, Iowa, struck a pose for the final frame of its animated holiday greeting.
SkyVu Entertainment, a game development company in Omaha, followed the quirkiness of its Battle Bears game with its post proclaiming it put the ” ‘butt’ back into ‘Happy Holidaysbutt’ ” (One commentor asked: “When did Battle Bears have butt?” My question exactly.)
The folks at Saturday Mfg., a marketing firm in Des Moines, handed out a holiday safety sign kit to its clients and friends, who are now posting submitting pictures of the signs in the wild on Saturday Mfg.’s Facebook page. (Hat tip to Des Moines Egotist.)
Google Fiber’s pending arrival in Kansas City inspired Paul Pauesick, the IT director of the Kansas City, Kan. Board of Public Utilities, to pen a version of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” (Hat tip to Kansas Business Journal.)
The Google Fiber Team posted a video wishing Kansas City a happy holidays, saying on YouTube, “We can’t wait to see you in 2012.”
Did you see our Halloween wrap-up? Check it out: “Silicon Prairie Spooky: Startups, agencies celebrate Halloween“.
