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  • charity: water’s work featured on ABC’s 20/20

    As we round out 2010, and reflect on some of the major initiatives that we were involved in this year at Silicon Prairie News, the Silicon Prairie News & Big Omaha charity: water Campaign was one of the most pivotal and encouraging efforts that we accomplished as a community. When I published the first post…

  • Blog Action Day: Rahul Gupta of Planet Water Foundation

    (This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Scott Harrison of charity: water

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the first video in the series of presentations from Big Omaha 2010, which was held at KANEKO, May 12-15. We chose to begin with one of the most powerful talks from the event, that of charity: water founder Scott Harrison. Harrison’s presentation was not only…

  • Sunday Video: charity: water launches 2010 September campaign

    Today we wanted to remind you of something that Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water, shared in his presentation at Big Omaha 2010. Four years ago, Scott came up with the idea of giving up his birthday for charity: water. He held a party in New York City and asked everyone who came to give…

  • The Big Omaha charity: water Campaign results

    At Big Omaha this past May, charity: water founder Scott Harrison (left) told his story to a packed house of 500 attendees. Needless to say, he inspired us all. Without any further waiting, we’re overwhelmingly excited to announce the results of the Big Omaha charity: water Campaign which we launched on March 29, six weeks…

  • Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event

    Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…

  • From the Founders: The Big Omaha energy carries on

    As we sit here just over a week since we kicked off Big Omaha 2010, we’re still unbelievably amazed by what took place in our community over the course of two and a half days. A new level of excitement and passion was born at this year’s event. People left changed, and for that we’re…

  • Big Omaha: Morning sessions live blog

    8:32 a.m. The doors are open, the breakfast table is stocked and the mic’s gettin’ tested… Big Omaha 2010 is underway! Jeff and Dusty should be taking the stage in roughly 30 minutes for the day’s opening speech. We’ll check back in with you then! | 9:11 Jeff and Dusty are on stage. Here we…

  • Scott Harrison shares the charity: water story, discusses best practices

    A few weeks ago, I spoke with Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water and upcoming Big Omaha speaker, to hear more about his organization, the impact they’ve had and their focus areas going forward. Scott’s background combined with the history of charity: water is amazing, and it’s one of the main reasons we asked him…

  • Announcing the Big Omaha charity: water Campaign

    As you may have heard, Scott Harrison, founder of charity: water, is one of this year’s speakers at Big Omaha. charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. I’ve been following Scott and his team’s work for some time now and have been unbelievably impressed at what…