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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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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…
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Checking in with Sam Schill, startup swag guru and budding entrepreneur
To categorize Sam Schill’s immersion into the world of tech startups using the lexicon of that land, the Ames businessman has quickly gone from just checking in to becoming a veritable super mayor. A little more than a year removed from making his first foray into the landscape of tech entrepreneurship — when he helped…
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Did you know: Omaha developer had hand in foursquare’s Palm app
If you’re a foursquare user who checked-in to a venue this past Saturday you may have been surprised to learn that it was Foursquare Day, the second annual social media holiday celebrating, of course, all things foursquare and taking place on April 16 (4/16). With the check-in, users earned a Foursqare Day Badge to add…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event’s second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited…
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Prairie Moves: Pongr, Tripleseat, Sigler Companies and more
(Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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WordPress Happy Hour, foursquare Meetup, Beer & Blog and MVF
Here are four events hitting Des Moines and Omaha this week, starting with the…
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Big Omaha: Saturday live blog
8:03 a.m. Welcome to Day 2 of Big Omaha. After an educational, enjoyable, and inspirational day of speakers, parties, and connecting yesterday, we’re getting set to jump into another shared experience with the likes of Dennis Crowley (foursquare), Melody McCloskey (StyleSeat) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos). I’m the duly appointed live blogger for today so if…