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Interviews from YP Summit about #YourSeat2010 and I Live in Omaha
At last Thursday’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit I tracked down two of the individuals behind the two most common phrases of the event: the Twitter hashtag #YourSeat2010 and the blue signs and stickers touting I live in Omaha. First up, Mark Pohl, the chair of this year’s Summit and an employee of the Omaha…
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Who wants to go to the Omaha YP Summit? We have tickets!
Silicon Prairie News has two all day passes ($125 value) to give away. To win one…
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Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor talks innovation & entrepreneurship
Here is the last of three posts in a series of interviews with the keynote speakers of this year’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit, which is taking place this Thursday, March 4. Bill Taylor is the co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine as well as the author of Mavericks at Work, a New…
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TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie discusses social entrepreneurship
I had the opportunity to interview an individual that I’ve been inspired by for some time, Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes. Blake has an amazing story of how he’s built the TOMS Shoes name into an internationally recognized social entrepreneurship success story. Blake will be the lunch keynote speaker at this year’s Greater Omaha Young…
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RenGen author discusses Omaha’s creative economy, YP Summit
In gearing up for this year’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit on March 4, we wanted to provide short interviews with individuals who will be delivering keynote presentations. The first person I was able to visit with was Patricia Martin, CEO and founder of LitLamp Communications and the author of Renaissance Generation: The rise of…