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Wednesday Whimsy: Meet Hank Snider, the Prairie Portrait prodigy
As a general rule, we prefer that the Prairie Portrait interviews we publish — heck, all the interviews we publish — are, as they say in the biz, “not completely fabricated by someone other than their purported subject.” But in the case of Prairie Portrait prodigy Hank Snider, we find ourselves compelled to bend that…
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Prairie Portrait: Chris Snider of Drake University
Silicon Prairie News: What one development over the last five years has most changed the way you teach journalism? | Chris Snider: The amount of new tools out there. We could spend all day just teaching the tools and never get through them all, so that has forced me to focus more on the concepts…
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The Des Moines foursquare badge has arrived
The official “city badge” for the five winners of foursquare’s #VisitUS contest debuted this afternoon and for Des Moines that means a new global look at the Iowa State Fair’s famous butter cow. Des Moines entry to the contest was spearheaded by students in Chris Snider’s Social Media Strategies …
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PrairieCast video: foursquare in Des Moines, fiber in the Silicon Prairie
This week we had two PrairieCast rookies on the show, OpenAir Equity Partners’ executive-in-residence Thad Langford and Drake University social media strategy instructor Chris Snider. We discussed the successful efforts of Snider’s class to procure a badge for Des Moines on the popular social platform foursquare, Langford’s investment in Kansas City-based …
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Chris Snider and Thad Langford
Join us at 2 p.m. for Episode 74 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. Guests this week are Chris Snider, a multimedia journalism instructor at Drake University, and Thad Langford, the former president of Zave Networks and current executive in residence at OpenAir Equity Partners. …
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. Tuesday with Chris Snider and Thad Langford
Tune in Tuesday at 2 p.m. for Episode 74 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. Guests this week are Chris Snider, a multimedia journalism instructor at Drake University, and Thad Langford, the former president of Zave Networks and current executive in residence at OpenAir Equity Partners. …
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foursquare names Des Moines winner of ‘city badge,’ credits Drake class
Been there. Done that. Have the foursquare badge. For folks that make the rounds in Des Moines, that’s now a possibility, thanks to a grassroots effort led by Chris Snider and his students at Drake University. foursquare announced today that Des Moines is one of five cities nationwide that earned its own badge in the…